Creating an ecosystem of a connected community

1. Do you believe online empowerment can lead to offline empowerment? If so, tell us how!
   Absolutely! Through online, we are able to create a very closely connected pool of diverse resources of talents, tools and materials available online are crucial simultaneously essential for economic and community development. My goals have been to learn new ways of doing good in the society and help bring talented people together to achieve that. And so far I have been able to do that continuously through social media postings and a connected network of community members where we are developing the start-up eco-system and nurturing young talents to utilize technology to solve social problems. This is one of the ways online empowerment translates to offline empowerment.

We promote our work and spread awareness through social media and allow people to learn about it and join forces. This very essence of online communication can lead to real time effects in every particular community because knowledge spreads like a good virus to affect the ones who are willing and empower them to affect the ones who are not willing.

This notion of helping is the side-effect of online communication and is something we all need to properly nurture for the youth to shape the world in a better way but through one step at a time.

Through our initiative, parents are empowered to take control of their children through our initiative and apart from that millions of parents of around the world are being benefitted regularly by having access digital technologies to better help their children and result in higher developments in their children’s lives. For disabled and children with learning disability are able to do much more than what their society had thought they could only because of the digitization. It is resulting in an in independent culture creating a self-sufficient people who are capable of making simplest to big changes in their lives. Such as, now a days iPads and Android based tablets and applications developed to monitor children and track their progress allowing the teachers and parents to create a better life for their autistic children. These are great examples of the endless possibilities.

Every stakeholder in the autism community are now connected. Game developers can develop their games and send it to us and this opens the platform to a vast community and enables global participation. Then researchers and educators globally can connect and result in problem solving of any critical case. This is a platform that earlier did not exist in our country which we are trying to achieve. I believe in a year or two we will have a more connected society than ever in this spectrum of learning disability stakeholders.

Online training and developments opportunities are helping individuals to earn knowledge and aware themselves of their rights, which enables them to take actions accordingly. Rural and urban education is a key concern for the governments of all nations and through online interventions of providing access to public information and others is enabling a nation to be more educated. In Bangladesh, an organization called- Amader Cloud has made this possible through various pilot projects on delivering information to rural families on their basic rights as citizens of Bangladesh. They are monitoring their activities on the tablet provided to them and are able to understand the utilization and impact rates of such projects. These kind of opportunities are prime examples of online empowerment translated to offline empowerments.