Telenor Youth Forum focuses on peace this year, opens for entries in Bangladesh

The hunt for young leaders from around the world for the 2016 ‘Telenor Youth Forum’ has begun.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 16 July 2016, 04:59 PM
Updated : 16 July 2016, 05:22 PM

Grameenphone, which is a Telenor company, is inviting students, teachers and entrepreneurs aged between 18 years and 28 years to submit their ideas of digital solutions for ‘peace’.

Applications, which can be submitted through https://www.telenor.com/youthforum/application-requirements/, for entries will be taken until Aug 6.

The best three solutions will be sent to Telenor headquarters after a rigorous process.

Telenor will select two of them for attending the Oslo forum in December with the finalists of the other 12 countries where Telenor has operations.

Grameenphone’s Head of External Communications Syed Talat Kamal at a press briefing on Saturday said the forum, which began in 2013, was serving as a platform of ideas for digital solutions of the day-to-day challenges.

This year’s theme ‘digitalisation for peace’ has been selected at a time when the world is fighting against terrorist threats.

Talat Kamal said this forum helped to bring ideas of solutions to the global level.

One of the ideas of ‘digital maduli’ developed by a Bangladesh participant in 2O14 is now being used by NGOs.  This is to prevent drowning which is a leading child killer in Bangladesh.

The ‘maduli’ gives alarm to mothers when their children proceed to water bodies.

A director of the Grameenphone’s Center of Expertise, Syed Tanvir Husain, said the forum was aimed at taking the ideas to the global level.

“It is to amplify your idea to a bigger platform so that anyone or any country can benefit.”