A Rural E commerce ecosystem for the developing world | Rezwanul Jami Haque | TEDxGulshanStudio

“What is a simple luxury for people like us in the cities just one click away - was an impossible rural dream. These last mile citizens & their reality gave birth to this idea of a rural assisted e-commerce platform, a bridge to mitigate the digital divide. From dreaming of selling her own hand stitched blankets to becoming a SME, our platform has seen it all.”
Rezwanul Haque Jami shares his story of transforming the rural e-commerce game in his country, Bangladesh where it was a dream for anyone living in the rural parts of the country to buy anything online and for a rural artisan to sell his self-made products was nothing but an impossible imagination.
A journey of challenges, perseverance and determination and turning grief into greater strength. Rezwanul Haque Jami is a visionary entrepreneur, innovative market disruptor, and self-taught programmer with extensive industry knowledge and work experience. As the Head of e-Commerce, he coined the term 'rural e-commerce' while presenting his paper in the 1st Digital World Summit back in 2016, which paved the way towards making ekShop a reality, a model now being successfully replicated in other territories of the world, after making a major paradigm shift in the e-commerce practices locally. Before joining a2i, Jami co-founded and served as the elected Vice President of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (eCAB). A business graduate of the prestigious University of Dhaka, Jami hails from Rajshahi and had played diverse roles in the local telecom operator and telco service provider industries. He has also achieved success as a VAS entrepreneur, co-developing and rolling out commercially successful VAS platforms that are unique and innovative. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx