Why knowledge transfer?

Bangladesh is a country with a huge population but its potential is underutilized due to lack of appropriate information, technology, modern education and initiatives.

The power of knowledge builds up the confidence in a human being that instigates the creativity. Knowledge Transfer is essential to turn the unskilled/semiskilled and underutilized population into rich human resources to establish a technology based knowledge society and achieve strong economy. Need based and appropriate knowledge would create new opportunities and employments that would involve the underprivileged and unemployed people, especially the village society, with productivity. Knowledge transfer is the interactive process of transmitting and disseminating the knowledge from the “haves” to the “have-nots”. For a successful knowledge transfer, the learners ideally should have an in depth understanding about their heritage, culture, skill, resources to analyze the barriers and identify needs to feed the experts/technologist. However, mostly the youth of the country is unaware/ignorant of the village society as the emerging urban elites, though insignificant percentage, are comfortable with western culture and alienated from the masses while the rural youth lacks proper information, facilities and modern education. If we look back, it was always the youth who came forward to take the challenge to push the country forward starting from breaking the chain of British colony to the independence of the country; on the other hand, youth is the enthusiastic segment of the society who is the first to accept new ideas, explore with natural creativity and ambition.

For the development of the country, it is very important to know the history and understand the village society, unit of the country, as about 82% of the population lives in the rural areas. Bangladesh has a glorious past. The country bears the pride for the ethnic homogeneity of its population; the youth gave blood to establish Bangla as the national official language in 1952 while the country (the than East Pakistan) was a part of Pakistan; the nation achieved independence in 1971 through sacrificing millions of lives in an independence war against Pakistan. Rabindranath Tagore, a Bangali nobel laureate, Kazi Nazrul Islam, known as the ‘voice of Bangali nationalism and independence’, Lalon Fakir, one of the best composer of songs on spiritual theme made the country rich in cultural heritage in literature, music and poetry. Bangladeshi Muslins (textile material) once was famous and adored by the elites of all over the world.

Having glorious history, precedence of struggle and successes, large population, still the country is plunged into multifarious problems like illiteracy, poverty, political instability, unemployment etc. People, specially the youth, must have extensive knowledge and awareness about their own society to be able to have a vision for knowledge and technology based Bangladesh by up-rooting these deep-rooted barriers. The project, thus, prioritizes the youth to provide them with appropriate information on village society coupled with technology to develop competency to fight against poverty.