iSocial is the revamped identity, which is short for ‘Infolady Social Enterprise Limited’. Formerly known as Infolady, and ‘Kallyani’. Right now it’s a model for empowering communities through women entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurship model is a dynamic one, which has won several prizes over the last few years and made a visible impact by bringing socio-economic changes on the lives of the people of the rural community. As technology is constantly upgrading and updating its own stream, everything surrounding it and based on it also need to change to cope up with the need of time. We have also identified this and updated our award winning model to serve the society in a better and well-suited way. Through partnership and support from the ICT Division of Bangladesh Government, our plan is to expand first to 16 districts deploying 1,000 Kallyani’s and then gradually throughout the whole nation to deploy 10,000 Kallyani’s by the end of 2021. It’s a bold step towards fulfilling the vision of Digital Bangladesh. Challenging the status quo and creating the voice – was the essence behind coining the concept of ‘Infolady’. This model was developed by Dnet in 2004. This innovation has a direct contribution to SDG-3 (Sustainable Development Goal, Good Health and Well-being), SDG-5 (Gender Equality), and SDG-8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth). It is a ‘women-for-women’ family based info-preneurship model, where a young woman entrepreneur equipped with modern ICT devices (i.e. Tablet, Smartphone, Laptop), travels around villages on her bicycle, and facilitates well-being of the marginalized lives through creation of informed choice options. She establishes fee-for-services operations- ‘service with information’, or ‘service and product with information’ and earns between USD 60 to USD 260 per month, depending on her skills and daily time allotment. Round the clock internet connectivity allows her to update daily transaction data through an integrated system.
