The prime minister’s son and her ICT adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy has distributed laptops to over 200 university students in an effort to’ develop manpower with ICT skills.’
“It’s the Awami League-led government which started to distribute free books and today it started to give laptops to students of Bangladesh,” he told a gathering at Bangladesh Computer Council on Sunday.
The government will give 500 free laptops to students in the first phase under its ‘One Student One Laptop’ scheme of the ICT Ministry.
“I dream of building IT parks and creating an IT workforce in this country. Mark Zuckerberg developed ‘Facebook’, when he was only 19 years old. I hope that in future some of you will come up with things like Facebook and Google,” said Joy.
250 students of Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and Sylhet’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology were given laptops on Sunday.
“When the ‘Digital Bangladesh’ vision was initiated, a lot of people said how will the poor of this country afford computers and internet. We then said that the Awami League government will make that happen,” said the prime minister’s ICT adviser.
He said that 5,000 ‘digital centres’ were established covering every Unions in Bangladesh in the last three and half years.
Joy added that the government was in the process to connect 118 universities of the country through fibre optics and make them free Wi-Fi zones.
“Do not forget one thing…who gave you laptops and free books on the first day of the year. It has been possible for the Awami League government. We will distribute thousands of more laptops. Do not forget this contribution,” Joy told the students.
Source: Bd news24
