Mahabubur Rahman, entrepreneur
Looking ahead to 2009, the change in the position today and the position of the past amazes me. Because, in the previous state, the people of the village did not know me very well. Today, sitting next to me, the people of the village are receiving their desired digital services. Although I was born in a poor family in Goghat village of Kamarjani Union No. 12 under Gaibandha Sadar Upazila, my dream was to improve the rural system through information technology services. Today I have become known as a service provider at all levels of society. Due to the poverty of the family, the days were spent in extreme despair. Once I started working as a radio mechanic. I bought a computer in 2008 with the thought of increasing my income and started using information technology. In addition to my own work, I used to do some work for the Union Parishad. I was appointed in 2011 as the Union Digital Center Entrepreneur of the Union Information and Service Center, the main focal point for the implementation of the vision of the Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in shaping the current digital Bangladesh.
The people staying in the remote Char area of Kamarjani of Gaibandha Sadar Upazila, where even in 2009, no one had any idea about information technology, no one could have thought that the admission and examination results of boys and girls would come within reach. It has been possible to gain confidence in the success of efforts to ensure the necessary services of agriculture, health, administrative work, people-centric services by bringing information technology within the reach of the village population. I have had to face many setbacks while ensuring people centric services at the doorstep of the people through tireless work. Through my tireless efforts, I quickly became a symbol of gaining the trust of the common people through information technology services. Today, everyone from the village to the ministry has praised me as the best entrepreneur. The encouragement and direction of the district and upazila administration inspired me behind the success.
In 2012, Kamarjani UDC entrepreneur was selected as the best entrepreneur at the upazila level in recognition of ensuring public-private services at the doorstep of the people through the Union Digital Center. As a result of the encouragement and motivation of this honor, I engaged myself in more activities, and again in the same year, the District Administrator awarded me the District Best Entrepreneur 2012 award at the Digital Innovation Fair. I was again selected by the District Commissioner as the best entrepreneur of the year in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In 2015, at the project closing ceremony of "Empowering Rural Communities Reaching the Unreached" Union Information and Service Center, Kamarjani UDC selected me as the best entrepreneur of Rangpur division. Sincerely ensuring people centric services through UDC from 9 am to 9 pm every day, I was able to change my destiny.
I often dream of setting up an ICT training center in a remote area. The work of which has already been confirmed by establishing a Union Digital Center named Kamarjani UDC-2 in Durgam Char area with the support and patronage of Upazila Administration and Union Parishad. Not only that, we are working to develop skilled manpower by providing training to unemployed youth through Kamarjani Digital Computer Training Center. Day after day, like a hawker of dreams, I am helping myself and two other co-entrepreneurs reach the ladder of success by providing new services to UDC.
Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division, A2I, BCC, DoICT and BASIS