From 2001-2007, the AED Center for Civil Society and Governance (CCSG) supported civil society in Bangladesh to advocate for better protection of human rights through the Bangladesh Human Rights Advocacy Program (BHRAP).

CCSG tasked our team to design and develop a visual book titled Defending Human Rights: Citizens, Civil Society and the State (The Bangladesh Human Rights Advocacy Program Experience, 2001-2007). It contains a narrative on the role of civil society, success stories and strategies, strengthening civil society to advocate for human rights, to sustaining human rights advocacy in Bangladesh. It was printed in July of 2007.

This project was funded by USAID.

Working with the AED Information Technology Application Center (ITAC), Microsoft, and Telecentre.org, we designed and developed a book and informational Web site called Making the Connection: Scaling Telecenters for Development.

The materials present case studies, approaches, and research from previous projects on telecenters or “shared access facilities” and the effect of these facilities on social, economic, and technological development of developing countries.

This fascinating volume underscores the diversity of approaches to addressing digital social and economic disadvantage. The book illustrates just how pervasive and differentiated, yet with compellingly common purpose, the telecenter movement has grown to become. Grameen did it with local lending and mobile phones. Telecentres are the next in line!!! A must read!

Richard Fuchs, Director, ICT for Development, IDRC

To learn more about this project, vist: http://connection.aed.org

AED Social Change Design worked with the AED Center for Health Communication to brand CDC’s Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports initiative and design a print and interactive banner campaign toolkit.

Every year there are an estimated 3.8 million sports and recreation related concussions in the U.S. This initiative aims to educate and create awareness about concussions among youth sports coaches, parents, and young athletes across the country.

To learn more about this project, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/ConcussionInYouthSports