Abstract |
“Digital Bangladesh-2021” hawks the national policy for its successful implementation. Digital Bangladesh means knowledge based Bangladesh. Almost 50% of the total populations are women in our country. Chronologically, three-fourth of the total women are from rural settings. The present study made an effort to determine the present status of access to ICT by the rural women. For this purpose a village named Hatigara of Sadar Dakkshin upazila under Comilla district was selected. A sample size of 265 was taken from 850 populations by using standard statistical formula. Data were collected in August 2009 through systematic random sampling and structured interview by pretested schedule and PRA methods. The study shows that access to ICT by the rural women was positively associated with the monthly income of the household and level of education of the rural women. About 49% women’s household have television, 25% women have mobile, 4.4% have personal computer and internet connection availed by only 1.5% of the total respondents. Among them 62% have no concepts about internet and 91% respondent never used computer. In context to digital Bangladesh, the word is heard by 90% of the total respondents but 54% of them have no concept about the meaning of the term. Nineteen percent of the respondents opined Digital Bangladesh as “changing the time by the govt”. Only 8.8% ICT related services are rendered by the govt. agencies. |