Moving toward quality water and sanitation services
Access to sanitation lags behind access to water. Quality of service is poor, with intermittent supplies, continuing environmental degradation, and financially weak service providers. Moreover, future water availability is not guaranteed. Uncertainty about water resources will most profoundly affect poor populations, who often live in disaster-prone areas such as overcrowded settlements and low-lying deltas. Water variability will also strongly impact providers’ ability to maintain adequate quality and quantity of services.
There is no universal solution to these challenges, but the World Bank sees them under three 
Benefits of listing business in a visible business directory
As technology takes control in most aspects of life today, business men and company owners are taking advantage of the benefits that technology, precisely the internet, has provided for them. In Bangladesh, entrepreneurs are striving everyday to get their business become noticed by customers and market as a whole. One of the ways in which they are doing this is by getting listed in visible business directories like Infoisinfo. Online business directories in specific provide businesses with very many advantages other than exposure. Such advantages include;
- Reaching your targeted audience
Why I’m going to Havana
Fifty-four years ago, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba, and three young Marine guards volunteered for one final act of duty: lowering their country’s flag before returning home. Today in Havana, I will watch proudly as those same Marines—Larry Morris, Mike East and Jim Tracy—help raise the flag over our newly re-opened U.S. Embassy.
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Secretary Kerry Boards Air Force Jet For Flight to Cuba and Ceremony Re-Opening U.S. Embassy in Ha...
Secretary Kerry Boards Air Force Jet For Flight to Cuba and Ceremony Re-Opening U.S. Embassy in Ha...
Supply chain futures: Turning a tech eye on Bangladesh
While India and China still rise to the top when it comes to luring start-up companies and their investors, some venture capitalists are beginning to scan opportunities popping in neighboring Bangladesh.
Like other parts of Asia, Bangladesh's inklings of IT and technology appeal has more to do with its longer-term potential, than the current challenges it faces as a emerging country in the vital Asian economy. Vetted out through some recent statistics, one could see why technology entrepreneurs and funders may want to start setting up shop there. One striking number is that 70% of the country's population is under the age of 35, and its mobile-first adoption approach has resulted in more than 125 million mobile subscribers and 24.5% Internet penetration, according to this GeekTime re...
Empowering South Asian youths thru’ ICT, media
Region’s influential policy-based youth organization, South Asian Youth Society (SAYS) for the first time ever hosted a shadow SAARC conference titled, ‘Model SAARC Summit 2015 in Dhaka.
U.S. Embassy Dhaka sponsored the summit with collaboration from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
The summit was segmented in couple of sessions in a period of three days, happening in capital’s Edward M Kennedy Center (EMK) and Brac Inn Center successively.
Particularly the second day commenced with an informal session where the ...
The summit was segmented in couple of sessions in a period of three days, happening in capital’s Edward M Kennedy Center (EMK) and Brac Inn Center successively.
Particularly the second day commenced with an informal session where the ...
The World Bank has accountability problem
In April members of impoverished fishing and farming communities near the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in Gujarat, India, filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., against the World Bank Group’s private lending arm, the International Financial Corp. (IFC), which funded the project, seeking remedies for harms to their environment, livelihood and health. The IFC is asking the district court to dismiss the suit, claiming absolute immunity for harms caused by the project, which would leave the plaintiffs without an effective avenue of redress.
“The IFC’s defense boils down to this: ‘We are above the law,’” Rick Herz, the litigation coordinator for the human rights and environmental advocacy group EarthRights ![]()
