Underthe governments postal and telecommunications department, four educationalinstitutions are being converted to digital.
Theseorganizations are managed under the management of the BTCL, the postaldepartment and the telephone industry.
Throughthis, the process of digital teaching is also beginning.
Thedecision was made to transform it into a full-fledged digital educationalinstitution in a meeting with the board of directors of the educationalinstitutions under the management of the department and the heads of the respectiveeducational institutions, chaired by Postal and Telecommunications MinisterMostafa Jabbar.
Postaland Telecommunications Department Secretary Ashok Kumar Biswas, BTCL ManagingDirector Iqbal Mahmud, Director General of the Postal Department SS Bhadra,Teshis Managing Director Fakrul Islam and Jasmine Jui, CEO of Vijay Digitalwere present in the meeting.
MostafaJabbar said Bangladesh is the example of the digital revolution. TheDepartment of Posts and Telecommunications has the responsibility of digitizingevery educational institution under this department as a digitalinfrastructure, including the construction of digital highways. This makesit possible to study books in the classroom with digital content instead of apencil.
Aspart of the digitalization, the Minister said that all the activities relatedto the management of these institutions including digital attendance andresults will be digitalized.
Thetelecommunication minister said, I would like to start the teaching activitiesfrom the primary with the educational institutes managed by the Postal andTelecommunications Department.
Referringto this, others will come forward, he said, adding that there was no concernfor the students. This will be done if teachers need to build competenciesto provide digital lessons. There is content up to the elementary level,but even if there is not enough content for high school, we want to start withthe existing content.
Illustratingthe textual activities of nearly a thousand educational institutes operating inthe digital system of the country, Mostafa Jabbar, the father of Banglasoftware, said that it does not take more than a month to complete a year\'ssyllabus of digital curriculum through digital content.
Hesaid that computer is not just a tool for writing Bangla, not a programmingmachine, computer is one of the biggest benefits of learning.
Theminister said that when I started the work of spreading education on computers,there was no content. I assert that the change has to be from the verybeginning.
MostafaJabbar said that the educational institutions need to be prepared by trainingteachers to digitalize. The school cannot be digitized with just theequipment, he said.
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