期刊名称：European Journal of Business and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2235-767X
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：148-157
出版社：European Society of Business and Social Sciences
摘要：The hype of Information Communication Technology (ICT) spread all over the whole world during the second half of the last century. With the advent of globalization, developing countries were more impacted by this hyperventilation of ICT. Then it was realized that ICT could be used to achieve development and economic growth. For a developing country like Bangladesh, ICT4D was found to be full of potentials in bridging the rural community with urban community in terms of providing equal health services, gaining economic development. Being deeply influenced by this wave of ICT4D, the incumbent government pronounced ‘Digital Bangladesh’ vision by 2021. Using the concepts of ‘top‐down technocratic intervention’ and ‘bottom‐up community activism’ of Mazzarella (2010), this article aims at postulating health sector as leading the pioneer role on the way to ‘Digital Bangladesh’ bridging the wired and unwired community. The article also investigates how ICT4D has bridged the digital divide between the rural and urban areas. Keywords: ICT4D, Digital Bangladesh, Digital Divide, Health Service, Rural & Urban Community, Empowerment.
