Mobile phone operator Grameenphone launched the Bangladesh chapter of Telenor Youth Summit 2014 on Thursday. GP officials said this was the second year of the event where youth from across the globe would join a youth summit in Oslo, Norway in December. ‘This initiative was driven by the vision of empowering the society with technology. Through this competition we will represent the innovative youth minds of Bangladesh in the global platform,’ GP’s chief human resource officer Quazi Mohammad Shahed said at a press briefing at the Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.
He said the team would have to come up with innovative ideas how to serve the society with technology.
‘This year we will go for road shows in universities where the teachers of the respective institutions will select their own team for domestic competition. In the second round we will select four teams which will go to the grand finale and the winning team will participate in the global competition.’
He said the winning team would also attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo.
Last year Safa Tasneem and Sami Tahsin of IBA, Dhaka University won the local contest of Telenor Youth Summit and represented Bangladesh in the first Youth Summit event held in Oslo.
-With New Age input
