INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR POVERTY REDUCTION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
Roger Harris Associates
Roger Harris Associates is a consulting and social entrepreneurial firm providing services to Asian governments, development agencies, aid donors, education institutions and non-government organisations. We target povertyalleviation by facilitating access to ICTs for underserved Asian communities, ensuring they are able to make good use of the technology according to their own development priorities. Our projects are in; Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. The services of Roger Harris Associates include; policy advice and development, programme design and evaluation, project implementation assistance and evaluation and research. The company also engages directly in activities in the same field of work, partnering where appropriate with communities, civil society bodies, development and government agencies.
Company Mission
To bring the benefits of information and communication technologies to rural communities in Asia by:-
- Influencing governments and aid agencies to sponsor the provision of ICTs to rural communities.
- Researching the new knowledge required to make ICTs fully capable of improving rural life.
- Providing internet access to villages and helping them making good use of it.
- Building educational resources to accelerate the application of ICTs towards solving the problems of rural life.
Current Projects
Director Business Development - eBario Sdn. Bhd.
eBario Sdn Bhd operates the eBario project, which is a multi-award winning initiative that brought computers and the internet to the isolated communities of Kelabit people living in the remote highlands of northern Sarawak, one of the East xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxMalaysian States on the island of Borneo.
Book Editor - Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia
Member of the Grant Review Committee and research mentor for the programme on Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia (SIRCA), under Canada's International Development Research Center and Nanyang Technological University Singapore.
Visiting Professor at the Institute of Social Informatics and Technology Innovation at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
ISITI's mission is to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge related to the use of ICTs by rural communities towards empowering them to social and economic self-development. It undertakes research and development in the field of Community Informatics.
Founder - Asian Encounters
Asian Encounters is a social enterprise based on a social network for promoting pro-poor Community Based Tourism (CBT). We call this e-CBT. The network brings together travelers and homestay providers as well as academics and development professionals.
