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    Information technology: marriage between it and social business-grameen intel social business ltd.
    (Social Business: Theory, Practice, and Critical Perspectives) Nahiduzzaman, Kh Md; Munni, Sheikh Rubaiya Sultana; Department of Architecture
    Aiming to reduce infant mortality, improve the mother’s health, and help Bangladeshi rural farmers improve agricultural production, Grameen Intel Social Business Limited was formed in 2009 by Grameen Trust and Intel – linking an organization with decades of experience in addressing poverty to a company with decades of know-how in technology innovation. Grameen Intel is devoted to looking at different ways and means to assist the rural poor by investigating their real needs to find suitable solutions using information and technology (IT). In the agriculture care program, mrittika analyzes soil nutrients to find the deficit nutrition required for enhanced production while ankur is a seed selection application for the rural farmers. Under maternal health programs, shumata is ante-natal care monitoring and tracking software for pregnant women, and dolna is a vaccine scheduling and tracking software for newborns and infants. Given this background, this part of the book attempts to discuss these ongoing programs to view the current and potential effects on the villagers. Moreover, a critical look is given on the geographic dissemination, costs associated with these services and actual benefits.
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    Disease: Social business for a malaria free world -BASF Grameen Limited
    (© 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg) Munni, Sheikh Rubaiya Sultana; Nahiduzzaman, Kh Md; Department of Architecture
    Badische Aniline und Soda Fabrik (BASF) (Badische Anilin-und Soda-Fabrik (English: Baden Aniline and Soda Factory) Grameen Limited was formed in 2009 as a social business joint venture between BASF and Grameen Healthcare Trust to improve the health condition of the low-income people of Bangladesh. The chemical (interceptor) mosquito nets are the first product of this venture aiming to reduce insect-borne diseases such as malaria which has been a health risk for the poor living in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests that protection provided by these nets against the night-active vector mosquitoes is the most effective means of preventing malaria infections. Against this backdrop, this chapter considers critical issues of this business venture attempting to solve societal needs including: the cost of each LLIN (Long Lasting Impregnated Net) as opposed to the average financial affordability of the poor, and the marketing mechanism of LLIN to target the poor living in the rural, slum and other disadvantaged areas.