Rural Development by Smartphone in Bangladesh
Rural Development by Smartphone in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is an agricultural country. About 90% of people in Bangladesh directly or indirectly depend on agriculture and about 85% of the total population live in the village. So rural development means the development of the village and its people through agriculture, education with smartphone application as well as support. The entire economy of our country depends on the welfare of these villages. So we can provide a high feature low-cost smartphone to villagers with Bangla apps for developing them.
Once upon a time a village of Bangladesh ware in a flourishing state. They ware self-reliant and self the villagers. They grew enough food, enough cloth and they lived a healthy and happy life. They had their panchayats a glory to settle their disputes. But with the advent of British and Pakistanis. Bangladesh has lost her part glory of self-sufficiency and self-reliance.
The villages of Bangladesh are now a hotbed of malaria, villagers are illiterate and ignorant. They have no good roads, schools for education, no hospitals, no doctors, no medicine, out of 85% of villagers, 80% live under subsistence level or poverty. Only 4% to 5% of people in villages who can sell their products.
More than 80% of the population lives in 69000 villages and depends on agriculture. So rural development is necessary to achieve national development but there are some obstacles such as;- (a) Lack of mechanization in agriculture, (b) fragmentation of holdings, (c) Lake of finance, (d) Lack of proper education, (e) Lack of rural credit (f) Lake of power decentralization, (g) Population problem, (g) Lack of efficient leaders, (i) Lake of mass participation and (j) unified agency.
We are now free to trade, but freedom will be meaningless if we cannot do anything for villages. Large scale mechanization of agriculture in Bangladesh has very little rope. It should be mechanized and proper irrigate. About 15% of villagers have no land at all. Due to insufficient capital, the farmers cannot invest in the cultivation. Rural credit by setting up rural banking facilities will be helpful for farming. Colonial education systems such be replaced by scientific of Technical education power must be decentralized through proper leaders.
The dynamic growth of mobile communications technology is creating opportunities for economic growth, social empowerment, and grassroots innovation in developing Bangladesh. One of the areas with the greatest potential impact is in the contribution that smartphone applications can make to agricultural and rural development (ARD) in Bangladesh by providing access to information, markets, and services to millions of rural inhabitants. For both agricultural supply and demand, Smartphones can reduce waste, make delivery more efficient and forge closer links between farmers and consumers.
This report helps policymakers and development practitioners with a guide that facilitates the development and deployment of mobile applications for ARD. It also informs their understanding of the key drivers for promoting such applications and services in Bangladesh.
We also know that economic communities based on interacting organizations and individuals the report identifies a wide range of players in the ecosystem for m-ARD apps, such as mobile phone network operators, m-app (mobile applications) providers, content providers, and various types of users. M-apps are software designed to take advantage of mobile technology and can be developed for technology besides smartphones. “
But smartphones have many key advantages like affordability, wide ownership, voice communications, and instant and convenient service delivery. As a result, there has been a global explosion in the number of m-apps, facilitated by the rapid evolution of mobile networks and by the increasing functions and falling prices of mobile handsets. M-apps are markedly different in developing countries because they typically run on second-generation (2G), third-generation (3G),fourth-generation (4G) mobile phones rather than smartphones, which are far more common in our countries as well as the developing countries. The report reviews country examples and extracts policy lessons and good practices.
Various agencies for launching the develop programmer should be chalked out through smartphones. Rural development depends on the development of agriculture, fisheries, cottage industries, education health, family planning, rural infrastructure like road, water, ways, canal digging with a smartphone application, the special low-cost feature helps the farmer to know updated news all over the world.
Finally, we strongly recommended that our government had taken steps for these, development through a smartphone application, special feature, special call rate, internet facility with village co-operatives. But it will not be successful it is not unified. So, it should be unified and properly organized then it will be a golden day and will play the role of the development of the entire Bangladesh economy. Rural development is the via-media for our development by smartphone.