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Looking to meet suppliers of:

• Digital educational content platforms which can accommodate crowdsourcing of content
• Open educational content
• Social media platform for teachers and education administrators
• Low-cost smart devices for education such as raspberry pi and equivalent, low-powered projection technologies, low-cost smart-boards or smart-pens
• MOOC platforms

Estimated contract values: Millions - countrywide

Company Profile
The Access to Information (a2i) Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office coordinates the government’s highly ambitious, country-wide digital transformation programme. Transforming education is at the heart of that transformation. As such, a2i works very closely with Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education to launch new digital education initiatives, design and conduct teacher training to develop smart classrooms and teachers’ portal with a crowdsourced content development model.

Buyer Profile: Leader, Administrator

• Bangladesh’s ICT Sector is growing at an estimated 20% per year and Government’s new Science and Technology policy suggested access to quality educational materials in all levels of education.
• Bangladesh Government has made ICT Education compulsory at the secondary level in 2013 and long term goal is to make it compulsory in primary level by 2021. The Government is planning to set up 2,000 digital laboratories around the country by 2017.
• Recently the Bangladesh Government has approved the Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE) policy which has opened the Bangladesh market to the foreign Education/ICT organisations to formally offer their programmes in Bangladesh.