About Voice
Current Employment Opportunities
VOICE is urgently seeking two qualified individuals to fill the posts of ICT Researcher and Accountant. Read more details below.
URGENT – ICT RESEARCHER REQUIRED
VOICE, a research and advocacy group based in Dhaka, is urgently
seeking a researcher with experience and interest in ICT-related
development issues to collect information and publish a report on the
topic(s) of Internet Censorship and Mobile Telephony.
Applicants should:
- Have a good command of written English
- Be comfortable using computers to conduct research and create reports
- Possess excellent data collection and analysis skills
- Possess good basic knowledge about either censorship issues, or mobile telephones
- Have some experience in writing about technology
- Be committed to a minimum work period of 1 year
- Work well independently and under pressure
Less-qualified applicants will be considered if they display enthusiasm
and self-motivation to learn about the research topic. We will provide
some guidance and resources, but the candidate should expect to work
mostly on their own. Commensurate salary, good working environment.
URGENT – ACCOUNTANT REQUIRED
Media
VOICE is committed to fair and democratic media representation through all forms of Information and Communication Technologies. VOICE recently acquired a video production kit, including an editing suite, and has already produced 2 video documentaries. VOICE also continues to be visible in the news. In the News Coverage section, there is a selection of articles written about VOICE or VOICE activities over the last 5 years.
Counter-Hegemony
VOICE regularly publishes a newsletter, "Counter-Hegemony," on the subjects of IFIs, globalization, social movements, trade, and social and economic justice issues. Its objective is to disseminate information in order to build awareness and solidarity for ensuring rights and economic justice, and aims to raise a voice for constructing a new world, challenging the so called mainstream development discourse and neoliberal economic order. This newsletter challenges and counters hegemonic approaches and promotes people's power and authority on the decision making process and on their own resources.
To subscribe, write to exchange.voice@gmail.com or use our contact form to let us know you're interested.
We invite you to send news, comments, and suggestions that could enrich our newsletter at the following address: exchange.voice@gmail.com
Staff
Ahmed Swapan Mahmud – Executive Director
As executive director and founder of VOICE, Ahmed Swapan Mahmud brings 17 years of experience managing and facilitating development programs and projects in different capacities with a special focus on research and advocacy at both the national and international levels. He also has experience in designing and planning advocacy policy and leads a number of national advocacy networks.
A recognized activist who combines knowledge of the grassroots movements with an adeptness in the policy arena, Ahmed Swapan is still engaged in social movements and progressive cultural fronts. In 2001, in collaboration with David Archer, he developed and applied and innovative new approach to education called REFLECT (Regenerative Freirian Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques) which would lead to the creation of community-based REFLECT circles for gender empowerment several years later.
He is also known as a researcher, focusing especially on issues of corporate globalization, IFIs, the WTO and TNCs. He is a regular contributor on socio-economic and political issues in the national newspapers and also for international magazines and journals.
Donate to VOICE
VOICE is always looking for financial or material support for its programs. If you would like to support VOICE by making a donation, please contact us at exchange.voice@gmail.com for more details.
VOICE would like to set up four centers/ programs: Centre for Globalization Studies, Centre for Human Rights and Governance, Centre for Media, Communication Rights and ICTs, Centre for Research and Policy Advocacy which are identical with activities to achieve the objectives of the specific centers. Activities of these centers are built-in and relatively integrated.
Centre for Globalization Studies
The Centre for Globalization Studies emphasizes the people's right and critically analyzes the globalization process that goes against people’s choice and Empowerment. It aims at promoting public awareness and building consensus for citizen actions among the people-centered organizations to react over the process of monopolization, discrimination, deregulation and power abasement. Its main concern is to act on political economy related to global scenario and governance.
Centre for Governance and Human Rights
Projects
VOICE operates a number of projects in Bangladesh to facilitate its campaign work. These range from jute demonstration plots to locally-run resource centres. VOICE is always looking to expand its project operations. For an overview of future VOICE projects, visit our Donate page.
Activities
1. Resist Corporate Control over Seed and Food :
Food sovereignty, ecological agriculture and biodiversity are the major components on which the citizen groups, women, and men, adolescents, farmers, citizen groups, activists are made critically aware. We raise the issue of how the corporate agencies take control over seed and agriculture and violate human rights particularly farmers’ rights introducing hybrid and genetically modified organisms, while drawing interactions through seminars, dialogues, study circles, discussion meetings, media briefing and analyzing policies that lead to privatization and affects people’s way of life and livelihood.
2. Research and advocacy :
We mainly focus on the public service sector like health and education, food and agriculture, and also global policy frameworks such as the roles of IFIs, WTO and TNCs, media, communication rights and ICTs etc. We review and analyze policy papers and design campaigns to make them people-centred and more development friendly. The advocacy campaigns are designed and implemented based on review and research findings. We generates policy briefs, research papers, booklet, manual, poster, leaflets, etc. as a part of advocacy materials to generate awareness for building constituencies.
3. Building capacity :
Memberships
VOICE is associated with various national and international networks to help link the struggle of the local people with international movements. VOICE is a voting member of the World Association for Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), The Association for Progressive Communication (APC), One World South Asia, the NGO Forum on ADB, Asia Pacific Research Network (APRN), International Food Sovereignty Network (IFSN), Asia Pacific Food Sovereignty Network (APNFS), Alliance for Economic Justice Bangladesh, Alliance against World Bank Immunity, The Campaign for Good Governance, and the People’s Alliance Against WTO.
VOICE is also member of the CRIS campaign and works as the Secretariat of Communication Rights in Information Society (CRIS) Bangladesh. VOICE also coordinates a countrywide network, the Right to Food Movement, as a secretariat.
VOICE is also accredited by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the WSIS process and is a founding member of the Bangladesh Working Group on World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
Main contact
Contact us directly through our contact form!
VOICE OFFICES
DHAKA OFFICE
House #67, 4th floor, Block-Ka
Pisciculture Housing Society
Shyamoli, Dhaka-1207
Tel & Fax: +88-02-8158688
E-mail: exchange.voice@gmail.com, info@voicebd.org
Office Hours: 9:30am to 6pm, Saturday to Thursday, except statuatory holidays
MYMENSINGH ACTION RESEARCH CENTER
House #14-Kha/1, Kathgola Bazar
Mymensingh
Tel: +88-0171-1881919
Office Hours: 9:30am to 6pm, Saturday to Thursday, except statuatory holidays
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