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Introduction
BEYOND SHORT-
TERM PROFITS
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BEYOND
SHORT-TERM PROFITS
In
2016,
we signed on as
a participant of the
GSMA’s
Connected
Women
Commitment
Initiative
Global Mobile Development
Axiata influences global mobile development
through our role in the GSMA Foundation. Our
commitments on the global stage are aimed at
steering mobile development towards areas that
are relevant to our stakeholders. In 2016, we signed
on as a participant of the GSMA’s Connected
Women Commitment Initiative (CWCI), which
opens up possibilities for women in the areas of
education, healthcare, enterprise and business
through the use of mobile services.
Our commitment to the CWCI is filtered down to
our OpCos which are responsible for implementing
initiatives towards this goal. We are pleased to note
that Dialog and Robi are among the first GSMA
members to have made CWCI commitments in Sri
Lanka and Bangladesh. Through their initiatives, we
have increased the participation of female users
of technology to forward the goals of gender
equality and women’s empowerment.
Robi has provided two buses
fully
equipped
with
ICT
training facilities as part of the
Bangladesh Government’s Digital
Training Bus Project.
The project reaches out to Bangladeshi
women unable to venture out of their homes
or localities to provide them with basic ICT
training.
Under this three-year-long project, six buses
will provide training to 240,000 young and
talented women across 64 districts in the
country. The project is designed to encourage
women to pursue entrepreneurship through
ICT, especially those in rural areas. These
special purpose buses will be air-conditioned,
Building ICT capabilities in Bangladeshi women
soundproof, and equipped with 25
workstations in each vehicle. Training facility
infrastructure includes one laptop per trainee,
large format LED screens, sound system, WiFi
data facility, customised training modules,
learning software and a stand-by generator.
The project is the first of its kind in Bangladesh
and aims to facilitate the country’s journey
towards its aspiration of Digital Bangladesh.
At the same time, it will help develop the
hundreds of thousands of underprivileged
women in the country by providing them
with the ICT skills they need to make positive
changes to their livelihoods and to their own
households. With better ICT skills, women will
have better access to education, healthcare
and business opportunities.