Ananya Raihan from the Development Research Network (D.Net) sharing his experience of Knowledge intermediation at the grassroots in Bangladesh at the joint EADI and DSA annual conference, York, UK, 2011.

1. Knowledge Intermediation at the Grassroots: Experience from Bangladesh Ananya Raihan September 20, 2011 Joint EADI 13 th General Conference and DSA Annual Conference University of York 19 th – 22 nd September 2011 “ NEW ALLIANCES: THE ROLE OF INTERMEDIARIES IN BRIDGING POLICY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE”

5. Context and Approach Information Illiteracy Information Illiteracy Information Illiteracy ICT Illiteracy ICT Illiteracy Inability to read and write Search or menu-based Bangla language text and picture content Search or menu-based Bangla language text and picture content Search or menu-based Bangla language text and picture content Audio content Audio content Audio content Audio-visual content Audio-visual content Audio-visual content Infomediary Infomediary Infomediary Private Self Access Private Self Access Private Self Access

6. Defining Infomediary Infomediary is a person who combines a set of technological resources and coaching to meet users’ information needs and communication capabilities.

7. Infomediary at Brick and Mortar Public Access facilities

8. Infomediation at Brick and mortarpublic access facilities Search or menu-based Bangla language text and picture content

9. Audio-video Continue ..… Infomediation at Brick and mortal public access facilities

10. Infomediation at the Door Step

11. Who succeeds?

12. Private self-access

13. Citizen journalism… www.write3.com Emerging policy participation tool ? Knowledge Intermediation: Bottom up

14. Features: Upload Comments Make Favorite Edit/Post Notification Create page Search Add, delete, edit Multimedia Article MMS, SMS www.write3.com Knowledge Intermediation: Bottom up

16. Pallitathya Model Information and knowledge system for the poor and marginalized

21. BOI by service category Result?

22. BOI by Information delivery channels Result?

24. Benefit of Knowledge Intermediation with Grassroots