e-Content and ICT4D award
Ananda Multimedia tops 'learning and education'
How many people do actually know about the developers of facebook, apart from its public face and co-founder Mark Zukerberg? The number won't be many.
But these are the people who actually play the vital role in development of ICT based services as their views and ideas set the motion of a project or website, they are the 'unsung heroes'.
32 organisatins were bestowed with the award in 14 categories for developing information and communication technology, in the first national competition of its kind in Bangladesh.
The Ministry of Science and ICT in collaboration with D.Net (Development Research Network) organised the National e-Content and ICT for Development Award 2010.
This week, winner of the 'e-learning and education' category, Rangamati-based Ananda Multimedia, awarded for interactive multilingual multimedia education software of national curriculum textbooks for classes I-II, comes under our spotlight.
This project is an interactive multimedia version of the textbook of National Curriculum Text Book (NCTB) for indigenous pupils of Class I and II.
Mohammed Omar Faruk, chief executive of Ananda Multimedia told The Daily Star that the software is available in three indigenous languages--Chakma, Marma and Tripura.
He said as languages of the hill tracts community are different from the other parts of the country, the young indigenous children have to face initial difficulties just after getting admission into the primary schools.
As a result, though a good number of children get admitted into the school, the rate of school attendance decreases gradually, Faruk added.
A talented group of indigenous artists and animators has worked together for character design and graphics of animation of the software.
"Generally children like animated graphics, texts and sound more than still pictures and still graphics of the books. That's why the software was developed to enrich the learners' memory effectively, fruitfully and delightfully by its extra ordinary characteristics like presentation of the subject continuously, alternately, orderly", said Faruk.
Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board provided the financial supports to the project that facilitated developing the indigenous languages.
Many children got back to school bench after making this product available in many schools of the indigenous territory, Faruk claimed.
Hats off to Ananda for their initiative.
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