Young Power in Social Action - Bangladesh ( ICTs for Development).

Young Power in Social Action - Bangladesh ( ICTs for Development).
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Established in 1985, Young Power in Social Action (YPSA) is a
voluntary social development organisation with the mission to engage
Bangladesh's poor, vulnerable and marginalised youth in bringing
about their own and society's sustainable development. The YPSA ICT4D
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Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 18 December, 2004

Direct URL
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_background.html

Goal & Objectives
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_objectives.html
Implementation strategy
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_strategy.html
Project activities
http://www.ypsa.org/yprdo/yprdo_done.html
Contact
YPRDO - Office
YPSA, Collage Road, Ayesha Villa
Sitakund - 4310
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)
House No # F10(P) ; Road No # 13 ; Block B
Chandgao R / A
Chittagong - 4212 , Bangladesh
Land Line: +88-031-672857
Fax: +88-031-650145
Mobile: +88-018-321432, 017-825068
Internet: www.ypsa.org
eMail: info@ypsa.org
akef@ypsa.org
debobrotochakraborty@yahoo.com

What is YPRDO?

Youth led Poverty Reduction through Digital Opportunities (YPRDO) is
a UNESCO supported project aimed towards affective poverty reduction
& development through the innovative use of Information &
Communication Technologies.

PROJECT AREA

The project is being implemented in Sitakund Upazilla under
Chittagong district, which offers different opportunities for
implementation of the project. The area situated 37 km. away from
Chittagong City flanked by hills and rivers. The total population of
the area is 274,903, Literacy rate is 41.1% and employment status of
men and women are 86% and 21% respectively. 85% of total villages and
65% of total HHs of the Upazilla are under electricity coverage.
Total length of Pucca, HBB and Katcha road is 111.75, 38 and 256 km
respectively. The digital opportunities center will be set up in the
village of MOHADEBPUR of the Upazilla, which is the center point of
the project.

Why Youth Leadership?

The young people are the most socially conscious and active segments
of the population. They are concerned about social issues like
culture, environment, economic inequality, and human rights, lack of
employment opportunities etc. Generally these young people can't
participate in the decision making process, don't have access to the
formal institutions of society. Yet these young people try to
organize themselves voluntarily to address the social problems &
bring about positive social changes. They cover the lack of finance
with their person power, lack of resource with their talent &
intelligence and overcome social barriers with their immense
challenge loving hard working mentality.

As a youth focused organization YPSA have noticed that that
potentially the deprived youths & adolescents of the rural areas are
not behind the urban youths & adolescents. But still the reason why
the rural youths remains behind is not of brain power but of
position. The rural youths have less accessibility to information
because of their position. The reasons adding to this are lack of
access to communication & technology. So if these youths can be
introduced to Information & Communication Technologies they can be
the future leaders to apply it in the field of social development.
Youth are a large untapped resource that have the innovation &
potential to find out ways of using ICTs properly & affective to the
local context.