Mr. Susanta Kumar Saha, Additional Secretary, Planning and Development, Information and Telecommunication Division (ICT) of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology along with other distinguished guests and partcipants
Mr. Susanta Kumar Saha, Additional Secretary, Planning and Development, Information and Telecommunication Division (ICT) of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication and Information Technology has mentored the Grooming Session-2 of “WE CAN-Daffodil Apps Fellowship 2016” on February 25, 2016 on Thursday. The Second Grooming Session washeld from 10am to 5pm on February 25 and 26, 2016. The Fellowship program is organized by WE CAN, Bangladesh and hosted by Daffodil International University.
Mr. Susanta motivated the participants to develop their innovation to the mankind. He said, “You should innovate such apps that can use in mankind.”
The two days’ session was divided into thematic and technical parts. Mr. Syed Mizanur Rahman, Director of Students’ Affairs of Daffodil International University, Mr. M A Rakib, Development Worker and Researcher, Ms. JinatAraHaque, National Coordinator of WE CAN, Bangladesh and Suparna Roy, Local Development Expert of Access to Information (a2i) Program moderated the thematic part. The technical part was conducted by Mr. MahbubHasan, Senior Android Developer of Coder Trust, Bangladesh, Dr. TouhidBhuiyan, Head, Software Engineering Department of Daffodil International University.
This App Fellowship program is an app competition on Women Rights Issues. Nine finalist teams have been selected already in the secondary selection on February 24, 2016 based on the participants’ Idea and Apps presentation. The Grand Finale and Apps fair will be held in March. Among them five teams will be selected as the winners of this Fellowship program. The prize will cost in total of Taka5 lakh.
