Digital RMG Mapping in Bangladesh 2020
In Bangladesh, around 4 million garment workers are working in more than five thousand garment factories all around the country. Most of the factories are situated in Dhaka and Chittagong divisions in Bangladesh along with the membership of BGMEA and BKMEA. This study explores to understand garments workers' lifestyles briefly, through conducting qualitative interviews with n= 55 garment workers (32 workers were female and 23 workers were male) from 40 different garments in 6 different groups. We uncover the several areas of workers' life, which represent the scenarios of all garment workers. We identified the challenges and qualities of workers' daily life, and come up with a possible tool that might make their life easy and better.
Google Gender and Technology Research in Bangladesh 2017
South Asian women has less access in personal devices than women in other regions in the world. Culturally, they have to share mobile phones with family members and that their digital activities has to be monitored by family members. These practices reduce the privacy online for women. From this mindset, We studied 195 people all around India, Bangladesh (N=55) and Pakistan to understand the social norms and values in the South Asian countries women and trying to improve the privacy controls, by offering or providing algorithmic suggestions.
