We co-create networking solutions, called AsthaNet, to connect the disconnected rural communities with global resources. AsthaNet combines a bundle of modern technologies e.g., variant of ferry-assisted-DTN with TCP/IP, CDN; connecting disconnected Internet-of-Things (IoT), etc. AsthaNet provides autonomous and authentic solution to serve information demand which reinvents networking among rural communities (especially technicallyless sound people) to enjoy quality localized contents with different dialects and accents. For socio-economic development of rural disconnected communities through ICT, AsthaNet adopts the concept of people's empowerment of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed and concept of people's development as freedom of Amartya Sen. As a result of this knowledge-based development, AsthaNet becomes the perfect blend of knowledge society using network solution to connect rural communities to develop with freedom and empower themselves to co-create solutions for surrounding social problems. This kind of empowerment is neither top-down nor bottom-up - it is horizontal development - a development with dignity.
K. Habibul Kabir, Ashraful Alam Khan, Ashir Ahmed, Masahiro Sasabe, K. Hasibul Kabir, AsthaNet: Co-creating Network Solution for Socio-economic Development of Disconnected Communities, International Journal of Humanitarian Technology, 1(2), pp.172-209, October 2020.
@article{kabir20AsthaNetCocreatingNetwork,
author = "Kabir, K. Habibul and Khan, Ashraful Alam and Ahmed, Ashir and Sasabe, Masahiro and Kabir, K. Hasibul",
title = "{{AsthaNet}}: {{Co-creating Network Solution}} for {{Socio-economic Development}} of {{Disconnected Communities}}",
year = "2020",
month = "October",
journal = "International Journal of Humanitarian Technology",
volume = "1",
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doi = "10.1504/IJHT.2020.10034657"
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