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3-month journey of GP Explorer 1.0 ends


Published : 30 Nov 2020 08:12 PM

Grameenphone has organized Demo Day virtually for GP Explorer 1.0 with Batch 1 graduates on November 29, 2020. GP Explorer 1.0 allowed students from the Islamic University of Technology (IUT) to gain insights into how the industry works and, most importantly, to learn design thinking skills. The graduates of Batch 1 of GP Explorer 1.0 consist of Sadat, Rafid, Aseer, Shafi, Zahin, Aftab, Sharara, Afrin, Saad, and Afra. 

The students gained numerous life skills from the program, such as looking for insights through user research methods and problem statement defining, exploring possible solutions co-creating with customers, building quick and dirty prototypes for their proposed solutions, and validating with the users to improve further.

The skillsets provided by Grameenphone will make it possible for the participants to apply this in a career in any industry or field and excel in it. Also, very importantly, the participants gained soft skills, confidence and learned ways to become excellent communicators through interaction with industry experts. 

On the Demo Day, the final participants had showcased their new skills in front of experts, including Professor Imran Rahman, Dean, School of Business, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh; Dr Charisma Choudhury, Associate Professor, Institute for Transport Studies and School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds; DrKhondokar Habibul Kabir.

, Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Head, Institute of Energy and Environment, Islamic University of Technology; and SolaimanAlam, Chief Digital and Strategy Officer, Grameenphone, Farhana Islam, Head of Innovation, Grameenphone and Khairul Basher, Head of Communications, Grameenphone.