BNNRC has been undertaking pioneer approaches to integrate ICT for Development(ICT4D), related policy advocacy for good governance,people's right,country and global commons and poverty alleviation with community development work at the grassroots through its networking members NGOs in Bangladesh at rural level.

BNNRC's outreach extends to local, National and International forums through interactive networking.Such as, BNNRC has the affiliated with:

United Nations- Global Alliance for ICT for Development( UN- GAID)
Global Knowledge Partnership(GKP)
Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation(CTO)
Connect the World of International Telecommunication Union(UN ITU)
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters(AMARC),
World Association for Christian Communication(WACC),
One World South Asia,
Developing Countries Farm Radio Network(DCFRN),
Freedom of Information Advocate(FOIA),
Commonwealth Human Right Network(CHRN)
One World/TV/Radio/Net
Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education(ASPBAE)
Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS)
The NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court(ICC)
Children Rights Information Network(CRIN)
International Forum for Rural Transport and Development(IFRTD)
The Global Development Network(GDN)
THE AIDS CARE WATCH
OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios



Bangladesh Telecentre Network(BTN)
Bangladesh Working Group on UN-World Summit on Information Society (UN WSIS)-Headed by Govt. of Bnagladesh.
Bangladesh Information Society Watch Group(BISWG)

BNNRC is accredited NGO by United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in World Summit on the Information Society(WSIS)process.

BNNRC also accredited NGO by World Bank, IMF and Asian Development Bank(ADB) for participation of Annual General Meeting.

Now, AHM.Bazlur Rahman-S21BR, Chief Executive Officer of BNNRC is a Member-Strategy Council of United Nations- Global Alliance for ICT and Development(UN-GAID)

Member of Media Advisory Group of Facilitating Establishment of National Broadcasting Commission(NBC)in Bangladesh by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute(BEI), Dhaka

Founder Member, Equity and Justice Working Group,Bangladesh(EJWGB)

The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), an initiative approved by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2006, was launched after comprehensive worldwide consultations with governments, the private sector, civil society, the technical and Internet communities and academia.

While the 2005 United Nations Summits emphasized the importance of ICT in achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), there was a need for a truly global forum that would comprehensively address cross-cutting issues related to ICT in development.

Recognizing that no single actor is capable of achieving the MDGs in isolation, the creation of an open and inclusive platform that can broaden the dialogue on innovative ways of harnessing ICT for advancing development is crucial.

The Global Alliance is a direct response to this need. With its multi-stakeholder approach, the Alliance reaffirms the belief that a people-centered and knowledge-based information society is essential for achieving better life for all.

Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is the world's first multi-stakeholder network promoting innovation and advancement in Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). GKP brings together Public Sector, Private Sector and Civil Society organisations with the goal of Sharing Knowledge and Building Partnerships in K4D and ICT4D.

GKP activities and programmes foster the innovative application of knowledge and technology to address and solve development issues in four strategic themes - Access to Knowledge, Education, Poverty Reduction and Resource Mobilisation.

GKP operates globally as well as in 7 regions: Africa, Central and Eastern Europe; East Asia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; Oceania and South Asia. GKP members demonstrate ideas through projects on the ground; and they influence policy at a global level.

GKP was founded in 1997. The network comprises over 100 members spanning 40 countries. It is governed by an elected Executive Committee and supported by a Secretariat based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Developing Countries Farm Radio Network is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in direct partnership with approximately 250 radio broadcasters in more than 35 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. Our materials are also available electronically to broadcasters and to rural development organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people’s common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression. WACC’s key concerns are media diversity, equal and affordable access to communication and knowledge, media and gender justice, and the relationship between communication and power. It tackles these through advocacy, education, training, and the creation and sharing of knowledge. WACC’s worldwide membership works with faith-based and secular partners at grassroots, regional and global levels, giving preference to the needs of the poor, marginalised and dispossessed. Being WACC means ‘taking sides’.

AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, with almost 3 000 members and associates in 110 countries.

Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio along the principals of solidarity and international cooperation.

TakingITGlobal.org is an online community that connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action in their local and global communities. It is now the world's most popular online community for young people interested in making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month

The Digital Divide Network is the Internet's largest community for educators, activists, policy makers and concerned citizens working to bridge the digital divide. At DDN, you can build your own online community, publish a blog, share documents and discussions with colleagues, and post news, events and articles. You can also find the archived discussion lists of the DIGITAL DIVIDE listserv. Membership is free and open to all

The Institute is an independent centre of knowledge and expertise in the areas of international and intercultural cooperation. The aims of KIT are to contribute to sustainable development, poverty alleviation, and cultural preservation and exchange. Within the Netherlands, it seeks to promote interest in and support for these issues.

OneWorld is the world's favourite and fastest-growing civil society network online, supporting people’s media to help build a more just global society.

ARTICLE 19 is an international human rights organisation which defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world.

We take our name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.
ARTICLE 19 believes that freedom of expression and access to information is not a luxury but a fundamental human right. The full enjoyment of this right is the most potent force to pre-empt repression, conflict and war; it is central to achieving individual freedoms and developing democracy.

The FOI Advocates Network was formed to meet the need to exchange information between NGOs working actively in the freedom of information area and to facilitate the development of common projects. The FOIA Network aims to help NGOs with campaigning, advocacy, and fundraising, through exchange of information, ideas, strategies and by providing a forum for collaboration. The FOIA Network also aims to facilitate the forming of coalitions of NGOs to address FOI issues at a regional or global level.

telecentre.org is a collaborative initiative connecting telecentres, networks, innovators, and other interested groups who believe that information and communications technology, used locally, strengthens individuals and the communities where they live. Its mission is clear and simple: to invest in networks, services and workshops to improve the capacity and sustainability of telecentres around the world so they can deliver more and better services in their communities.

United by the vision of building a knowledge society from the ground up, the telecentre.org family of initiatives deliver a social investment program and convene a social space for telecentre community with services.
More info: www.telecentre.org

The UN General Assembly, on 21 December 2001, adopted a Resolution (A/RES/56/183) endorsing the organization of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be convened under the patronage of the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, with the International Telecommunication Union taking the lead role in its preparation along with interested UN organizations and the host countries.

The origin of the Summit is ITU Plenipotentiary Conference Resolution 73, which led to consultations among the UN agencies and agreement on the need to hold a World Summit on the Information Society. The governing body of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Council, at its 2001 session, endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in two phases: in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003 and in Tunis from 16-18 November 2005.

BNNRC is accredited NGO by United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in World Summit on the Information Society(WSIS)process.


Bangladesh Working Group on WSIS:
BNNRC is a founder member of Bangladesh Working Group on World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)-Headed by Govt. of Bnagladesh.

WSIS Follow-up:
BNNRC now strive for following core interventions to achieve WSIS action plan, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and PRSP:

1. Awareness on correlations of ICT, poverty alleviation and Institutionalization of Democracy
2. Establishment of ICT Resource Center and Promotion of Radio Listeners Club as primary ICT catalyst in remote rural areas
3. Advocacy and Campaign for Bridge the Digital Divide/Information Divide/ Knowledge Divide and Open up airwaves for Community Radio - voices for the voice-less
4. Piloting of ICT4D projects at rural areas to create show case examples for greater multiplication through Rural Knowledge Center(RKC)
5. Establishment Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services (RACES) for Disaster Risk Reduction
6. People's Rights in Telecommunication

A FORUM FOR SHARING, LEARNING & BUILDING.

Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education(ASPBAE) was established in 1964 by a group of adult educators, inspired by the idea of promoting adult education in the region.

Today, ASPBAE has grown to a network of organizations and individuals involved in formal and non-formal adult education, working with and through NGOs, community organizations, government agencies, universities, trade unions, indigenous peoples, women's organizations, the media and other institutions of civil society across the Asia-Pacific.

ASPBAE'S fundamental purpose is to defend and advance the rights of adults throughout the Asia-Pacific Region to learn throughout their lives in order to gain control of their destiny.
Through a process of sub-regional consultations held in 2000, culminating in the Third General Assembly, the ASPBAE membership reasserted its belief in the enabling, empowering and transformative potential of adult education and set itself to pursue a new set of priorities and strategies to better fulfill its mission.

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including the internet.

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) is an international development partnership between Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth governments, business and civil society organisations. It provides the international community with effective means to help bridge the digital divide and achieve social and economic development, by delivering to developing countries unique knowledge-sharing programmes in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the specific areas of telecommunications, IT, broadcasting and the Internet.

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is a global network of over 2,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC).

For more info: www.iccnow.org

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Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is a dynamic, multi-disciplinary and iterative process to promote sustainable management of coastal zones. It covers the full cycle of information collection, planning (in its broadest sense), decision-making, management and monitoring of implementation. ICZM uses the informed participation and co-operation of all stakeholders to assess the societal goals in a given coastal area, and to take actions towards meeting these objectives. ICZM seeks, over the long-term, to balance environmental, economic, social, cultural and recreational objectives, all within the limits set by natural dynamics. 'Integrated' in ICZM refers to the integration of objectives and also to the integration of the many instruments needed to meet these objectives. It means integration of all relevant policy areas, sectors, and levels of administration. It means integration of the terrestrial and marine components of the target territory, in both time and space.

To prepare for the operational and effective introduction of ICZM, the Government of Bangladesh, with assistance from the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, established the Program Development Office.

Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF) is the professional ICT journalist association of Bangladesh which was established in 2002. BIJF has representations of all leading Daily, weekly, monthly ICT publications and other media (such as web, digital publication and electronic media). BIJF has established for the development of ICT movement of our country and to stimulate and facilitate the growth structure of this sector.

The preparatory phase of CRIN dates back to 1991, before the Committee on the Rights of the Child ever convened its first session. At this time experts from child rights organisations – including UNICEF Geneva Regional Office, UNICEF New York, Defence for Children International (DCI), and Save the Children Sweden – were already asking what would happen with information generated through the reporting process of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The group muddled over questions including: 'What would happen with the information?', and 'What would be the documentation handling process?' The group met on numerous occasions and visited the OHCHR Documentation Centre to see how the documentation system was organised (at that time Microfiche was used), and UNICEF Geneva's information resource section.

To its present day, the development of CRIN has seen a move from Geneva to London; and a move from an informal Facilitating Group (which consisted of a group of international NGOs with UNICEF) to a formally structured management team. It is now a viable information network that includes over 1,200 organisations.

The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) is a global network of individuals and organisations interested in rural transport issues in developing countries.

The network vision is "improved accessibility and mobility for rural communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, particularly those that are poor ".

Our mission is to "facilitate and promote the successful application of i) improved policies, ii) planning frameworks, iii) financing mechanisms and iv) technologies that will satisfy the accessibility and mobility needs of women, men and children in rural areas."

We aim to achieve our mission by strengthening and supporting networking, identifying priority issues for change, and pursuing a programme of advocacy work to influence donors, policy makers and practitioners. We seek to fill gaps in knowledge by promoting and disseminating research in a way that enhances networking, generates awareness of issues and advocates for appropriate changes and resource mobilisation. The IFRTD is committed to ensuring that the interests of developing countries are represented in the global rural transport agenda, and that the interventions of it's members both support and are informed by these interests.

Established in 1974 as the first of Consumers International's regional offices, the office was situated for a brief time in Singapore, then in Penang and since July 2000 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The office provides support and services to 58 non-profit consumer organisations and government affiliates, in 22 countries and territories of the Asia Pacific region.

In the summer of 2004, a project named Open Spectrum International began under the auspices of Czech Civic Association "Mista v Srdce." The aim was to promote awareness of "open spectrum" concepts outside North America, and to advocate the expansion of the radio bands available for license-exempt use. As we grew, it became clear that we needed an independent legal basis for our work. So in May 2005, we registered as a Dutch nonprofit foundation ("stichting") with offices in Amsterdam and Prague: Stichting Open Spectrum translates into English as the Open Spectrum Foundation.

Our survey of national regulations for license-exempt radio has enabled us to start identifying countries with restrictive policies which might possibly be changed with appropriate interventions. We expect to focus on the de-licensing of Wi-fi, as that is a proven technology with obvious benefits, and it can make even a wary regulator more comfortable with the idea of license-exempt radio. But we have many more ideas which we will implement as our budget permits - translating "open spectrum" texts into other languages, organising workshops and conferences, writing articles for popular publications, intervening in national regulatory consultations, etc.

We invite anyone who shares our interests and aims to contact us to discuss possible collaboration. We cannot intervene in policymaking without local partners, and we have a constant need for help with translations. Email us if you have information to contribute - or time, or contacts, or ideas...

The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide a fresh and relevant perspective to the development challenges of our time. At GDN, we strongly believe that policy-relevant research, if properly applied, can accelerate the pace of global development. What makes our initiative different is that we aim to generate this research at the local level in developing and transition countries. Thus, it is in the generation of local knowledge that, we believe, lies a much needed alternative perspective on facilitating change.

The idea for the AIDS-Care-Watch (ACW) Campaign emerged during the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, where it became clear that the large-scale AIDS treatment initiatives (such as the the World Health Organisation's '3 by 5' initiative and US’s emergency plan for AIDS relief) will not meet their AIDS treatment goals as soon as needed or expected.

Currently, only a small fraction of the 6 million people who need antiretroviral (ARV) medications have access to these drugs. This realisation left many conference participants with a feeling of hopelessness.

The ACW campaign is about restoring that hope. For the million of people living with HIV who are not able to afford or access ARV treatment in the next few years, there are nevertheless many ways that their lives can be extended. The ACW theme of 'Staying Alive with HIV' is about spreading that hope.

The AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign contends that there are three primary ways people living with HIV can survive the possibly long wait for ARVs:

1. Ensuring widespread access to other comprehensive care and treatment options: for example, helping people to discover their HIV status, to delay their progression to AIDS, and to prevent and treat HIV-associated conditions;

2 Improving health literacy among people living with HIV: particularly in relation to 'early' HIV-associated conditions, their prevention, management and drug treatment;

3.Identifying and minimizing the factors that accelerate the development of AIDS-related conditions.

Connect the World is a global multi-stakeholder effort established within the context of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to encourage new projects and partnerships to bridge the digital divide.

By showcasing development efforts now underway and by identifying areas where needs are the most pressing, Connect the World will create a critical mass that will generate the momentum needed to “connect the unconnected by 2015.”

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Our goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. We do this by facilitating ongoing debates on fundamental and provocative issues as well as by building the individual and organizational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and social justice.

A dynamic network of women and men around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, funders, and more. AWID recognizes that our members are our most valuable resource. We have a broad network of expert, committed members interested in sharing their ideas towards viable solutions for gender equality.

Founded in 2000, OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios is an emerging global network with the goal of facilitating a long-term dialogue between academics, activists, practitioners and policy experts around citizens' media initiatives.
OURMedia is founded on the principles that, first, all communities and collectives need to communicate, to express themselves, to inform and be informed, to dialogue with others, and to network; and second, that every community and collective has the right to the appropriate communication and information technologies and know-how to meet its historical communication and information needs.
OURMedia provides a space for collaboration in which needs and alternatives can be identified in the areas of communication and information infrastructure, policy, and research. Ultimately, the goal of OURMedia is to design and develop initiatives that can strengthen citizens' media, community media, and alternative media in national and international policy arenas.
One of our main objectives in the middle term is to help establish citizens' media as a strong voice in the floors of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) and The World Social Forum (WSF), among other international forums.
Currently, OURMedia has close to 500 members, of which over 350 are currently active, they including researchers, activists, scholars, and others in over 40 countries around the world.

The global Transport Knowledge Partnership is an initiative to promote and disseminate sustainable transport knowledge, whilst encouraging greater participation from the developing world.

gTKP is currently sponsored by UK's Department for International Development (DfID) and the Interim Board is chaired by Peter O’Neill of DfID. The other members of the Interim Board are:

David Silcock (GRSP),
Adrian Walsh (Roadsafe),
David Ward (FIA),
Charles Melhuish (formerly ADB),
Brian Williams (UN-Habitat),
Madan G Maleku (HMG/N),
Nu’uman Danbatta (MoT, Nigeria),
Dai Dongchang (TPRI, China), and
Peter Njenga (IFRTD, East and Southern Africa).

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Boston, MA, USA. We rely on individuals like you to support FSF's mission to preserve, protect and promote the freedom to use, study, copy, modify and redistribute computer software, and to defend the rights of Free Software users.

GDACS is a web-based platform that combines existing web-based disaster information management systems with the aim to alert the international community in case of major sudden-onset disasters and to facilitate the coordination of international response during the relief phase of the disaster.

GDACS is comprised of the following elements:
A set of standards to ensure interoperability between existing alert and response coordination systems
A set of working procedures to ensure predictability and reliability of information creation and exchange during crisis response
Stakeholders that commit to provide related information according to the standards and the working procedures
Aim
The aim of GDACS is to provide the international disaster response community with a platform to ensure that disaster alerts and information relevant to the international disaster response is exchanged interactively in a structured and predictable manner among all concerned.

Scope
GDACS will be activated in major natural, technological and environmental disasters, which overwhelm the affected country’s response capacity and require international assistance.

GDACS will be active from the moment a major disaster is forecasted or has occurred until the end of the relief phase. The relief phase terminates when there is no further requirement for information exchange by responding organisations to coordinate their activities and the focus of international assistance shifts to rehabilitation and reconstructions. The duration of the relief phase can vary in disasters but is usually between three to four weeks. Early warning and rehabilitation/reconstruction will currently not be covered by GDACS

Corporate Accountability International is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world. For 30 years, Corporate Accountability International and our members have scored major victories that protect people's lives by forcing corporations

Community Radio Toolkit, a place for community radio people to learn, talk, and share.