Success of Digital Island-Moheshkhali Project celebrated

JAAGO Foundation organised an event for celebrating the success of the Distance Learning Program under People’s Republic of Bangladesh’s Digital Island- Moheshkhali Project on Sunday.

To discuss the challenges and opportunities for the future, this event was held in the capital’s Platinum Grand Hotel, says a press release.

Parthapratim Deb, executive director of Bangladesh Computer Council, was present at the event as the chief guest and Peppi Siddiq, project manager- IOM, was present as the special guest.

Zahid Md. Firoz, project director, Digital Island Moheshkhali; and Masum Al Reza, national programme coordinator, IOM Bangladesh were also present.

Bangladesh has achieved Millennium Development Goal 2- Achieve Universal Access to Primary Education in 2015. Yet, education remains one of the biggest challenges for the country.

To take quality education to the remote areas of Bangladesh, the Digital Island- Moheshkhali Project was launched and recently completed 3 years.

In April 2017, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the scheme titled "Digital Island Moheshkhali" that connected the Moheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar to Dhaka.

The ICT Ministry, Bangladesh Computer Council, Korea Telecom and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) jointly started implementing the “Digital Island- Moheshkhali” project at Moheshkhali lsland in Cox's Bazar district.

JAAGO joined the project as an implementing partner in April 2017.

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