e-Passbook Kyushu University, GCC
e-Passbook is an electronic gadget for the poor. Can be used for multiple purposes e.g. (1) as a digitized passbook for the micro-finance borrowers for their financial records (2) maintain family health records (3) e-money transfer and online transaction etc.
Income Generation Project for Farmers Using ICT (IGPF) JICA, Kyushu University, BSMRAU, WIN Inc., GCC
IGPF aims to produce technologies to provide advanced farming knowledge, crop maintenance and marketing information. Farmers will be able to communicate with the experts and market agents in remote areas. Produces chemical free healthy vegetables. IGPF is funded by JICA jointly supported by GCC, BSMRAU and WIN Inc.
International Research Opportunity Program (IROP) GCC
IROP creates opportunities for the students, professionals, researchers, interested in developing social business. We arrange tour programs to the fields to identify social problems and gather unique ideas to solve social issues. Currently we are collaborating with Institution of Innovation Research (IIR) of Hitotsubashi University, Japan and hosting 100 researchers per year. Grameen Yukiguni Maitake Ltd. (GYM), a joint venture social business between Yukiguni Maitake Co. Ltd., Japan and Grameen Krishi Foundation, Bangladesh was born through this program.
Portable Clinic Kyushu University, GCC
Portable Clinic aims to produce technologies to provide healthcare service to the doors of the unreached. The portable clinic is a health checkup booth or a box with necessary diagnostic tools. A certified nurse will collect FHR (Family Health Record) of each family in a village and upload them to a centralized database. The archive can be an invaluable source of information for the government, NGO, social development organizations to know the area based health situation and trends.
Renewable Energy NTT, Kyushu University, GCC
Renewable Energy aims to produce technologies for providing uninterrupted and affordable energy services to remote houses, shops and tele-centre. NTT, Japan and GCC are jointly working together with this target. Efficient appliances e.g. mobile phone chargers, street lights, batteries are the scope of this R&D.
Social Services on Wheels (SSW) Toyota, KU and GramWeb
Social Services on Wheels (SSW) is an idea of mobile internet kiosk that carries a variety of ICT based social services which we call e-services. It is a joint project of Toyota, Kyushu University and GramWeb. This aims to create awareness of ICT based social services in unreached community and discover business opportunities in rural area using Nomadic (mobile) Internet Kiosk on vehicle.
