Nepalese, Bangladeshi firms win coding grant competition
Robotics Association from Nepal and Better Stories Ltd from Bangladesh yesterday won a regional competition for implementing innovative ideas to expand coding knowledge among youth to help them secure and create gainful employment.
Robotics Association is the only national-level non-profit association in the Himalayan country that provides an outstanding platform for students and enthusiasts.
Set up in 2008, Better Stories Ltd aims to create a whole new generation of leaders for Bangladesh through entrepreneurships. Four finalist organisations from Bangladesh and three from Nepal presented their proposals to a panel of judges comprising of leading IT and development experts at the final round of the annual regional grant competition at Lakeshore Hotel in the capital.
The winning organisations received up to $10,000 each to implement the innovative ideas, the WB said in a statement yesterday. The World Bank and Microsoft organised the competition 'Coding your opportunity' for the youth led organisations and NGOs.
South Asia is home to the world's largest population of working age youth. Learning about coding and computing has become an essential job skill in today's world, said Christine Kimes, acting country head of the WB.
“The competition received many good proposals and we are hopeful that the winning projects would create awareness about coding and help the condition of the participating countries for gainful employment.”
Clair Deevy, corporate social responsibility lead for Asia Pacific at Microsoft, said: "Through the technology partnership with the WB we see a huge opportunity for young people in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal to benefit from the work of Better Stories Ltd and Robotics Association of Nepal.” The competition was rolled out in four South Asian countries - Bangladesh, Nepal, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The competition had received over 70 project proposals, the statement added.
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