DHAKA: South-South Education Foundation (SSEF) on Monday distributed 50 laptops to fifty students of Dhaka University.

State minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak handed over the laptops at a program at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel in city.

Under the campaign of ‘A Laptop, A Dream’, the SSEF provided 10 laptops to ten students of computer science and engineering (CSE) department and 40 to forty Information Technology department students of the university.

The state minister said SSEF will continue distribution of laptops in building a ‘Digital Bangladesh’. The organization will gradually distribute more two thousand laptops in other public universities, he added.



He further said that the incumbent government has taken steps to create one lakh WiFi hotspots across the country to provide internet facilities at free of cost.

Moreover, vocational IT academy will be established in seven divisional headquarters, Palak added.

Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the United Nations AK Abdul Momen, South-South Steering Committee for Sustainable Development executive president Francis Lorenzo and United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC) Director Yiping Zhao, among others, were present at the laptop distribution ceremony.

BDST: 1745 HRS, MAY 18, 2015
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