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Sankalita Shome

Dnet
Chief Operating Officer, Aponjon
Bangladesh
Sankalita is the Chief Operating Officer of Aponjon, an mHealth initiative of Dnet. She is currently focusing on transitioning the funded Aponjon project into a social enterprise. She has experience in visualizing the utilization of modern technology for designing interventions focusing on women, children and youth and has been part of a pioneering initiative to use ICT in the context of cross-border child trafficking. Sankalita is a corporate lawyer by training and has worked in the highly volatile world of mergers and acquisitions in Mumbai before starting on a journey that has led her to live and work in three different countries. While in Cairo, she has worked on the resettlement of refugees and also co-founded the Cairo Refugee Film Festival