Webinar on Save the Environment Save the World

With the main focus of World Environment Day 2022, “focuses on living sustainably in harmony with nature”, ANYV aims to mobilize one hundred youth and volunteers from around the globe to promote the theme of the webinar “Save the Environment Save the World”. We hope to galvanize the collective passion of the volunteers for living sustainably in harmony with nature by bringing transformative changes through policies and our choices toward cleaner, greener lifestyles.

Webinar on Enhancing access and safe use of ICT for Girls in ICT Day

The International Girls in ICT Day, 2022 has been jointly celebrated through a webinar on “Enhancing access and safe use of ICT for Girls in ICT Day” by UNESCO and ANYVS with the partnership of UN Women and BdSTEM. The theme of International Girls in ICT Day is “Access and Safety”. The webinar started sharp at 2 pm and continued till 4 pm.

The panellists were:

  1. Beatrice Kaldun, Head of Office and UNESCO Representative to Bangladesh
  2. Huhua Fan, Chief of Education, UNESCO Dhaka office
  3. Mark West, Project Officer, Future of Learning and Innovation Team, UNESCO HQs
  4. Sonia Bashir Kabir, Founding Chairperson, SBK Foundation
  5. Gitanjali Singh, Head of Office a.i, UN Women Bangladesh
  6. Professor Md. Roshidul Hasan Dept. of CSIT, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, and President, Asian Network of Youth Volunteer Society
  7. Professor Dr. Al-Nakib Chowdhury, President BDSTEM
  8. Mhafuza Liza, BPM, Special Police Super (Internal Affairs), Special Branch, Bangladesh Police
  9. Nobonita Chakraborty, General Secretary, ANYV
  10. Success Story Tellers-
  1. Golam Rubaiyat (Moumita Hiya), Entrepreneur
  2. Arnaz Rahman, Student and Small Business Owner
  3. Raunak Jahan Moushi, Former President, Women Peace Cafe, Begum Rokeya University

Nobonita Chakraborty, general secretary of ANYV, started the webinar and welcomed all the panelists. Then requested Beatrice Kaldun humbly to give her welcome speech.

The welcome speech was narrated by Beatrice Kaldum. She addressed all the panelists on the webinar to celebrate the international girls in ICT Day 2022 by ITU which is to promote gender equality, and empowerment of women through ICT. She added, that International Girls in ICT day 2022 is celebrated in over 150 countries around the world today to encourage girls and young women to pursue their studies in STEM and ICT and to pursue studies and careers in information and communication sectors. She said, ” Girls and women face obstacles in the digital environment and try to bring out possible solutions to these challenges.”

She added that according to UNESCO’s Selective publication, “I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through Education” today women and girls are 25% less likely than men to know how to leverage digital technology for basic purposes, 4 times less likely to know how to program computers and 13 timeless likely to file for a technology patent”.

In her deliberation she told “As all technological sectors are dominated by men, women hold only 25% of the technology jobs. In the high schools and university levels, girls are less likely to study STEM-related subjects as it is seen that many girls avoid STEM subjects because they don’t think that they will be able to work with technology. One reason can be that they do not know any female role models in the technology industry.”

She added that in recent years Bangladesh has had remarkable achievements in STEM and ICT and its impact reaches girls and women as well. According to the UNESCO Science report 2021, Bangladesh demonstrates a strong profile in science and technology. There are several national initiatives like the establishment of economic zones, ICT industries, support for small and medium-size entrepreneurs, and many more. So the ICT initiatives are remarkable, especially in terms of grassroots entrepreneurship in ICT sectors with the engagement of girls from urban cities to rural areas.

To support the celebration 48 stories have been collected from 15-29 years girls and young women from all over the country, most of which are about small entrepreneurs in small businesses. As more women and girls are involved in the ICT sectors, it increases the challenges to provide safe digital space for them.

She added that the government of Bangladesh makes STEM and ICT education for girls and women their priority area which is very good to achieve SDG-4. Gender equality is the main priority for UNESCO in STEM and ICT she added. As the Prime Minister is very focused on this issue UNESCO utilizes it to support the government.  This webinar is focused to establish the safe use of ICT for girls. She ended her speech by thanking and congratulating UN Women, ANYV & BdSTEM along with her organization UNESCO Dhaka office to organize the webinar.

After the completion of the welcome speech Beatrice Kaldun, Nobonita Chakraborty explained the purpose and theme of the International Girls in ICT Day, she introduced all the panelists and passed the floor to the moderator Huhua Fan. Huhua next invited Sonia Bashir Kabir to give her keynotes.

Sonia Bashir Kabir is the head of SBK foundation and started her deliberation with her background a little bit. She talked about how Silicon Valley became the leading hub in the tech world. She narrated the inefficiencies in the market in the ICT sectors when she got back to Bangladesh after 20 years in 2006. She appreciated the Prime Minister’s vision of 2041 for Digital Bangladesh.

As Bangladesh has the fastest growing economy we have the passion to ensure that women are included in ICT education. The low rate of participation of women in ICT and engineering is the lack of online security and it is disproportionately low, considering that half of the population of our country is women. She mentioned that last year, the New York Times showed that the largest part of our success story can be attributed to educating girls. Though it’s good that 45% of girls are in tertiary education and 26% of the students are female in the university, which is not good enough, rather more women are neede in technology. The findings of the main reason for the low participation of girls in ICT is the male-dominated workplace in STEM & ICT sectors and the visible role model of women in ICT.

She added that “We need to celebrate the championship and gold up the girls who have broken barriers in this field, we have to promote female entrepreneurship”. She told, “We can’t speak up on the subject by addressing its darker side like harassment, misogyny, violence against women”. She suggested that as girls and women are using online huge, its need to ensure that all the girls have a safe online space. It is found that the girls are being silent on the toxic level of harassment like body shaming, sexual abuse, and many more. So it’s needed to educate them to raise their voices and share their experiences with the minority people.

She had some proposals for the girls in ICT like-

  1. We would like to educate our girls equally to achieve digital empowerment. As technology is completely male-dominated and lack of female role model in ICT sectors they have to educate that gender can not be the barrier for them to achieve anything they want to be.
  2. Closer technology access and usage gap. Many internet cafes and practicing places are not located in an area that is accessible for girls. So make women friendly environment in technological sectors.
  3. Make the digital environment safe for girls.

After finishing Sonia Bashir Kabir’s deliberation, Nobonita Chakraborty asked to play the video documentation which was made from the video testimony of the successful storyteller. After completion of the video documentation, the group photo had been taken. And then the project officer, Mark West was requested to present the selected publication, “I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education”.

Mark West started his presentation with two questions: “1. Why are there so few women and girls in ICT? and 2. How can we fix this issue, how can we engage more girls in the field of ICT both in the education and professional spheres?”

The primary problems are basically cultural towards Mark. He said if we looked at the beginning of Computer Science, we found that the men were interestingly working with hardware,  whereas women were doing programming.  The girls often say that they are not good at it. But if the examination is held between boys and girls, the girls always score better than the boys. So it can be said that there is nothing natural about gender in technology, all are cultural. Another thing he added was the lack of role models of females in technology, even in many TV shows and movies showing that the women are requesting men to help them with technology though the scenario is changed nowadays.

The education sector can do a lot of things that he suggested, that is the study of computer science should be mandatory, especially in the grade 6/7/8. Everywhere, the job descriptions are completely gendered, and it should change. Mark gave an example of one university in California was able to increase the number of female students by changing the name of the subject from Computer Science to Problem Solving with Computational Process. Finally, he suggested that,  as boys already have advanced knowledge of ICT, the girls should be more focused to take their education in ICT.

After finishing the presentation the panel discussion started and Huhua Fan, Head, UNESCO Dhaka Office, asked to moderate the panel discussion.

Huhuha Fan announced that the selected publication has open access to all and requested Professor Md. Roshidul Hasan, president ANYVS, gave his speech first to discuss the engagement of girls and women in the grassroots level of entrepreneurship in the ICT sectors and what are the challenges and lessons.

Professor Roshidul started his discussion with the qoute from our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, “Amar chokhe purush romoni kono vedaved nai,

Bisshe ja kichu mohan srishty chiro kollyankor,

Ordhek tar koriyache nari, ordhek tar nor”.

He said that the main motive of ANYVS is to share everything equally and to put the word no discrimination,  though the word is so easy to hear but too hard to maintain. Because most of the time we gendered the work though we believe in no discrimination he added. He gave two examples of tech-based venture projects of ANYVS in Satkhira and Lalmonirhat which is the mobile apps based identification of the disease of prawn and wheat.

They used mobile apps that can identify the disease of prawns and wheat in that particular area. He said “When we work on any tech-based project, we simply define that the female can’t adopt the technology.  But from these projects, it was experienced that the females and girls are more focusing and adopting the technology than the males. The females using the apps were mostly illiterate but they are adopting the apps more focusing than their husbands and brothers and at that time the yield of crops was also increased than the previous time. Also in the Satkhira shrimp project, 100 females used their voices to identify and mitigate the diseases of shrimp.”

To him, the problem of girls not coming into technology is our mindset towards them. He think that girls are needed to bring in the ICT sectors as a creator, entrepreneurs, developers or policymaker rather than being users or beneficiaries. It is not possible to develop a nation while keeping the girls behind.

He believed that it is possible for girls to do better in the tech world because it has already proved that the females of rural areas can adopt the technology. So girls can use LMS, EMIS, and many more while working from home. He mentioned that already we have started blended education at our policy level while many neighboring countries haven’t even started yet. As there is a connectivity problem that many remote areas girls have been faced with, Professor Roshidul mentioned that “we have our last mile connectivity project named ” Enhanced Digital Connectivity Project ” by our ICT division going on and within 3 years we all can connect”.

Mentioned Sonia Bashir Kabir as our role model he finished his speech with the aim of establishment of no discrimination and secularism.

Special Police Super Mahfuza Liza has been requested to share her experience in the field of cyber crime. She gave the example of the help desk, where lots of girls are going daily to report on cyber crime. They lost all their hopes and don’t know how to overcome but they at least have the courage to report and break the social stigma. She mentioned the steps taken by the police department of Bangladesh to minimize cyber crime nowadays, explained how effective the initiative was on the facebook page of Police Cyber Support and more. She suggested to the girls to change their password every 3 months, log out properly from every website, not to share the password to anyone and so many. She ended her speech by  mentioning that the learning should come from the home, and that every parent should teach their son to respect girls.

Then the former president of Women Peace Cafe, Raunak Jahan Moushi was requested to share her experience of the digital literary training which was held by UN Women in 2020. The training was about making concerns about fake contents. They taught to spread positive awareness. She also had the privilege to learn from the e-learning module which is a full package of capacity development courses for the youth to engage them online to understand, identify and counter hate speech, fake news and misinformation. The module ensures safe online participation, she added.

Professor Dr. Al Nakib Chowdhury, president of BdSTEM then gave his deliberation about the activities of BdSTEM. He said that this is the network of major universities for both teachers and students. BDSTEM arranged many seminar, workshops in ICT for the girls and university students for their safe use of ICT. BDSTEM attracted girls of higher secondary levels to study ICT and invited them with the resource materials. The national ICT competition, accessibility and safe use of ICT, design of a model classroom, rural digitized development, STEM based nation, encourage girls to empower them in research and innovation are some activities of BDSTEM.

After the deliberation of Professor Al Nakib Chowdhury the success story teller Md. Golam Rubayet asked to share her journey. She said that first she tried to sell her products online, but she failed and then she started using facebook to reach customers. Most of the time she had to suffer from cyber bullying and harassment. She said that if they get fundings and training support from organisations like UNESCO, UN Women and many more then they will be able to contribute to the country’s economy and could lead a good quality of life. Another successful storyteller Arnaz Rahman, student and owner of a cloud bakery shared her experience of how social media played a vital role in growing her businesse. She shared how cautiously they handle the database and concern about online security.

Finally last remarks were given by Gitanjali Singh, Head of Office, a.i, UN Women. She mentioned that the technology is no longer a luxury its need indeed. Finally Huhua Fan with closing remarks ended up the webinar.

Inaugural Ceremony of The Green Volunteers Magazine V.04 I.01

Inaugural Ceremony of The Green Volunteers Magazine V.04 I.01

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Guest List
Prof. MD. Roshidul Hasan
President
ANYV
Dr. A. T. M. Emdadul Haque
Education Department,
University Kuala Lumpur
Prof. Dr. Myint Thuzar
Professor, Yezin Agricultural
University (YAU), Myanmar
Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
Assistant Professor
Xiamen University Malaysia
DR. JAMES O. OYANDO
Executive Chairman, Smarter Philippines, Inc. – International
Dr. Kaniz Aklima Sultana
Managing Director
PEARL, Bangladesh
Tapas Ranjan Chakrabarti
International Affairs Secretary
One Bangladesh
EMCEE
Nobonita Chakarvarty
Education Secretary
ANYV

The Green Volunteers Volume 4 Issue 1 is Published

The Green Volunteers Volume 04 Issue 01 is live now. You can have your copy from the following website.
Good Day!!
We are happy to announce that we are going to inaugurate our regularly published magazine “The Green Volunteers (Volume 04 Issue 01) on 25 October 5 pm Bangladesh (+6 GMT). You are cordially invited to participate in our live program in https://www.facebook.com/anyvsocieties

Orientation and Inaugural Program on Learn to Lead with ANYV

Asian network of youth volunteers (ANYV) Society is a registered international organisation focusing on youth development and many more by ensuring a secular and non-discriminating platform. In this purpose ANYV initiated a free e-learning platform “Learn to Lead with ANYV” to help lots of youths from ASIA and out of this continent. The good news is 3502 people of 11 different courses from 17 countries engaged themselves with this non-academic free course of “Lear to Lead with ANYV”. To utilize their time ANYV is providing completely free online courses so that they can build their life in this pandemic and post-pandemic.

The Orientation and Inaugural Program on “Learn to Lead with ANYV” was premiered live on Facebook worldwide on 08 June 2020 at Bangladesh time 7.30 pm (GMT+6). MR. MD. SHAHRIAR ALAM, M.P, Hon’ble State Minister for Foreign Affairs Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh was the chief guest in the program. The program was chaired by PROF. MD ROSHIDUL HASAN, President, Asian Network of Youth Volunteers Society. The special guests were from three different countries:  PROF DR. MUNAZ AHMED NOOR, Vice Chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Digital University, Bangladesh, PROF DR. ABDUL RASHID B. MOHAMED SHARIFF, University Putra Malaysia, SONIA BASHIR KABIR, Founding Chairperson SBK Foundation, Bangladesh, PROF DR MAMUN-OR RASHID, Professor, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, PROF DR SERAFIN ARVIOLA, Philippines Normal University, Philippines, PROF DR KAMRUZZAMAN, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural, Sheikh Faridul Islam Kanon, General Secretary, ANYVS. This special program inaugurated by very energetic, intelligent panel who are Youth icons in respective fields in their own countries even in the universe, was viewed by more than 5500 audiences globally.

The program was hosted by Nobonita Chakravarty, Education Secretary of ANYV. After introducing all Honorable guests, she requested the Hon’ble President of ANYV, Prof. Md. Roshidul Hasan for presenting the short brief on the reason “Learn to Lead with ANYV” started its journey.

Mr. President described, “during this pandemic, we are contributing to the society with our best possible initiatives like always we do. As we know, more than 1 billion youth are having their daily life disrupted by the spread of COVID-19. Students, teachers, families, and every youth stuck in this uncertainty. They become bores, hopeless, exhausted, depressed, and unstable and hesitate to take any decision. Bearing all these into consideration, the Asian Network of Youth Volunteers (ANYV) Society has determined to stand beside them with knowledge and intelligence. The “ANYV online training” initiative is fully free with non-academic courses and offering diversified courses from health to tech to research etc.  We are expecting the following benefits;

  1. Everyone can utilize their best quarantine time in the most effective way.
  2. Make a wide network of networks so that they would never feel the isolation.
  3. Prepare themselves to earn and build their new career by receiving training, counseling, certificate and proper follow-up
  4. The engagement in ANYV online courses, release them from depression, and boost them up to start their life again.
  5. ANYV is providing an international platform of online learning to share the best knowledge with all communities.

Then he requested Hon’ble Special Guest PROF DR. MUNAZ AHMED NOOR, Vice-Chancellor, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Digital University to discuss what are the obstacles and how to overcome the issues of online classes as he started this online learning in his university from the very first day of pandemic. He said, “The initiative taken by ANYV is very timely and amazing. He focused on mental health of people of all ages. He shared his concern that everybody should learn leadership, it’s not necessary to be leader always but, the knowledge is a must learn thing for everybody.

Hon’ble Special Guest Prof. Dr. Abdul Rashid B. Mohamed Shariff from the University of Putra Malaysia explained online education system especially how the online education should be and the ways of overcoming online education system. He added more that there are some challenges in online learning and raised tree issues, those are lack of conversation, examination system and role of the students.

Another Hon’ble Special Guest Prof Dr. Mamun-Or Rashid from Dhaka University, Bangladesh shared experience of online education, its drawbacks and technical issues focusing on objectives. He added more on research and education network of Bangladesh. He said that virtual education is actually replaced with physical education in this pandemic and it’s a high time we focused on existing online education policies.

Before giving the floor to another special guest President Md. Roshidul Hasan shared the old memories of how Asian Network of Youth Volunteers Society was born and started walking. The main purpose was to connect the Asian youths to build a secular and non-discriminating world.

Hon’ble Special Guest Prof Dr. Serafin Arviola from the Philippines Normal University was in the very early time of ANYV and he expressed his feelings before all. He focused on how the knowledge of global citizenship can work to empower the youth of Asia and how voluntary learning can shape them to a better version of themselves which will lead to make this world an excellent place.

All instructors from different countries shared the overall experience and expected outcomes of conducting the courses.

Pindarica Malyrojsiri, Course instructor from Thailand, going to teach ‘Life Skills on gender education’ and will share knowledge on how to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence. She also wants to teach how to show respect to opposite gender.

Dipika Roy Prapti, Cultural Secretary of ANYV and Course instructor of Basic Yoga, with more than four years of experience in learning and teaching yoga said regular practice of yoga can help relieving stress, improve immunity system and maintain a healthier lifestyle which is very important in this pandemic situation

Robotics has a significant impact on the development of humanity in the near future. That’s why ANYV has arranged a course named “Introduction to Robotics”. The course instructor Hasib-Al-Ahmed operates this course in association with Cybernetics Robo Academy. He would like to teach the basic knowledge of robotics, the operating system of robotics and introduce some familiar sensor and devices. He would also like to teach a little bit of electronics and programming.

Another course instructor Mst. Sultana Razia conducts “Emotional Intelligence” course. She believes knowledge on emotional intelligence can raise their mental awareness of the new generation to get rid of a family crisis, professional crisis and anxiety in this pandemic situation.

Course instructor of Basic Freelancing Guidelines, Md Mahmudul Haque shared his personal experience, the basic ideas of freelancing and its current market place. He mentioned that many people have no idea about passive earning.

Another course instructor Suhiya Islam Sristy is going to teach how to deliver a nice presentation confidently. She shared her own experience and made tutorials for students to improve their presentation skill. This will be also helpful to get release from anxiety during presentation.

Mala Bhowmik will teach her students how to develop English writing skill and write a complete CV. She said that CV writing is a crucial part for youth to explore their future prospect. A complete good CV aims to impress recruiters in job sector. Writing skill in English is important not only for youth but also for everyone. She wants to guide how to connect, organize and generalize grammar and vocabulary frequently to explore a smart writing.

Last but not the least, ANYV is trying to help people be productive in these tough times through many other activities. ANYV will announce a photography contest very soon. The green volunteers will also be published in July 2020. The main objective is to engage the youth with activities so they do not get bored. The initiative will launch for its second batch in September 2020. ANYV believes that this pandemic will end soon and requested everyone to stay safe stay healthy and be with ANYV.

Finally, Hon’ble Special Guest Sheikh Faridul Islam Kanon, General Secretary of ANYVS shared the activity of ANYV Society. ANYV involved and successfully completed different national and international projects, Among them Energy Efficiency and Conservation Business Coalition funded by JICA, Bangladesh Digital Summit 2019, Rajbangshi Summit 2019, School Program, and Bangladesh Economy Survey 2019 Funded by China, are remarkable. And he also discussed the program taken by anyvs during the pandemic.

At last, the program came to an end with the answering questions by hon’ble panelists from mass.

Learn to Lead with ANYV

Hi!!
Good Day!
Asian Network of Youth Volunteer (ANYV) Society is registered in 2017 as an international society who believes in secularism and no-discrimination. Apart from the social and volunteer activities, the ANYV has successfully implemented different International projects, especially Energy Efficient and Conservation (EE&C) Business Coalition funded by JICA, Japan; Digital Economy Survey of Bangladesh funded by CETC, China, and also successfully organized Bangladesh Digital Summit 2019.

It is our pleasure to announce that ANYV Society is launching now a FREE online Non-Academic Courses, Skill Development Training and knowledge sharing initiative in a flexible way for the global community in association with One Bangladesh, StoneHenge, Cybernetics Robo Academy, and Meraquay Home Philippines, Inc. The training program also aims to foster excellent, career driven and service-oriented leadership with digital innovation for all. These types of skills enhance the trainees socially, in work, in life and even to get better job and earnings. The courses will be conducted in different sessions virtually by ANYVS’ distinguished instructors.

Why you will join;
• Learning time is very flexible. You can learn any time, from anywhere.
• Free registration for all courses.
• You can register any no. of course(s).
• All successful trainees will get certificate
• Building strong global Network.

So join us to get Free certificate and prepare yourself to lead the future. Together, Let’s #LearnToLeadwithANYV.

For more information and queries, please visit;
www.anyv.org/training
https://www.facebook.com/anyvsocieties/
E-mail: info@anyv.org
Phone:+8801847126960

Thanks and Regards.

Professor Md Roshidul Hasan
President
Asian Network of Youth Volunteers Society (ANYV)
roshidul@roshidul.info; roshidul.hasan@gmail.com
www.roshidul.info

The Green Volunteers Issue 3 is Published Online.

The Green Volunteers Issue 3 is published online today.
This is the regular publication by Asian Network of Youth Volunteers Society.

Please check the link to download your copy.

http://anyv.org/the-green-volunteers-issue-3-2/