About Us

Who we are

We are a Social Enterprise for bridging marginalized communities and market through digital innovation and a last-mile delivery network.

We are institutionalized as an independent venture for scaling-up Infolady model in Bangladesh.

Mission

The mission is to create a top-down and bottom up supply chain network by 2021 where 20,000 young women entrepreneurs known as Kallyani &20,000 Shukormi serve 10 million women, adolescents and children through an e-commerce platform.

Vision

Women, including who live at the bottom of the pyramid are empowered economically and socially with sound health and mental wellbeing.

Incorporated on 12th April 2016 under the Companies Act of 1994 in Bangladesh as a Limited Company (No. C-130230/2016).

A Social Enterprise for bridging marginalized communities and market through digital innovation and a last-mile delivery network.

Institutionalized as an independent venture for scaling-up Infolady model in Bangladesh

Story of Inception

Dnet, a not-for-profit Social Enterprise, launched the Infolady model back in 2004 to test and shape the modern women social entrepreneur model. The first iteration was comprised of ‘rural information centers’, outposts containing a computer with preloaded content on agriculture, health, and legal aid. In 2010 Dnet developed a business model that would bring last-mile connectivity to rural Bangladeshi women, as well as empower Bangladeshi women to become entrepreneurs, challenging traditional gender roles. This model was called ‘Infolady’. Later in 2016, Dnet launched a for profit social enterprise iSocial (Infolady Social Enterprise Limited) to run the Infolady model as a social enterprise.

Our Approach

We believe that the evolution we envision in terms of reaching our mission and complying with our vision cannot be achieved single handedly by serving a particular group of people. Thus, we have divided our target group into B2B and B2C where we are dedicated to serve consumers as women, children, and adolescent as well as government ad non-government agencies. We know that the diverse gains will not be sustainable unless we focus on all the aspects that can directly or indirectly have an impact on the society.

Business to Business

In case of B2B we work for Government, Development Agencies and Corporates, private sector companies and service providers as well as various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, marginalized citizens.

We extract dynamic and reliable individual and household level data analytics from rural landscapes as valued data intelligence service. Also, we offer Activation at the last mile to promote product and services as well as delivery of different services and benefits.

Business to Consumer

In case of B2C, we serve the rural households especially, women, children and adolescents, under a digitally enabled platform with Consumer products and services while working as an end-mile supply chain linkage.

The motto is to bring wellbeing to the community and provide products and services of the wide range of areas including mental health, sexual and reproductive health, nutrition, agriculture and farming and opportunity connectivity to the rural households

Social benefits

SB-1 — Empowering women and changing social barriers and stigma by creating women entrepreneurs.

SB-2 — Digitally connecting 492 rural upazillas in Bangladesh and also benefiting from partners outreach.

SB-3 — Providing healthcare services & increase awareness of millions of women with limited access to information, technology & quality products.

SB-4 — Providing wide range of quality products to rural households which are strategically important for meeting SDGs

SB-5 — Aiming to create more than 20,000 change agents across the country by 2021.

SB-6 — Ensuring access to justice and entitlement for women through Right to Information.

Our FootPrints

Meet The Board

Barrister Anita Ghazi Rahman

Chairperson

A renowned business lawyer running a Probono organization ‘The Legal Circle’. She actively promotes social entrepreneurship and intellectual property rights. She obtained her LL.B. (Hons) degree from University College London (UCL) in 2002 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales from Lincoln’s Inn in July 2003, completing her Bar Vocational Course with “Merit” from the College of Law.

Aftab Ul Islam FCA

Director

A pioneer ICT business icon Mr. Aftab Ul Islam is the director of Bangladesh Bank. Mr. Islam started his 36-year-long career in the private sector with USA-based multinational IT Company NCR Corporation. In 1992, he launched his own business, IOE (Bangladesh) Ltd. A commerce graduate, he completed his LLB and later went on to become a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh.

Dr Nazneen Ahmed

Independent Director

Dr. Nazneen, a renowned economist, is a Senior Research Fellow at Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands. She has experience of working with a number of donors and international development organizations including the World Bank, DFID, UNCTAD, ILO, IFC, EU, AED, Action-Aid, IFPRI, etc

Dr Ananya Raihan

Chief Executive Officer

An Ashoka Fellow, is the Chief Executive Officer of iSocial.He holds both Master in Economic Cybernetics and Ph.D.in Economics. A social entrepreneur, Dr.Raihan led the development of the “Pallitathya Model” to improve access to knowledge and information among poor and marginalized communities. Which is now scaled up country wide by the government as Union Digital Centre (UDC).

Sk. Masudur Rahman

Shareholder/ Director

Sk. Masudur Rahman has been serving as a Chief deployment officer of iSocial. He has led the role out of 10,000 Kallyanis countrywide. He has more than 12 years’ experience and specialization on project management. He holds a Master’s in Development Study (MDS). Currently, he is leading the business development team of iSocial.