With the objective to set up multimedia classrooms in schools, Grameenphone signed an agreement with the education ministry to facilitate internet connectivity.
Under the agreement, Grameenphone will supply, install and service 20,500 modems and provide laptops, speakers and multimedia projectors to 20,500 secondary and higher secondary schools in the country.
The students will learn through audio-visual elements and enhance their knowledge through the use of the internet, said a statement of the telecom operator.
The agreement was signed yesterday at Hotel Ruposhi Bangla in the capital in the presence of Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid and Grameenphone Chief Executive Officer Tore Johnsen.
AK Azad, project director of the ICT for education project of the education ministry, and Tor Harald Stromsnes, head of direct sales of Grameenphone, signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organisations.
As part of the government’s vision to implement a “Digital Bangladesh” by 2021, the education ministry launched the flagship project called ‘ICT for Education in Secondary and Higher Secondary Level’ to digitalise and modernise the learning method in classrooms through the internet.
Education Secretary Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury and ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan were present, among others, at the signing ceremony.
Courtesy of The Daily Star
