Background:
It was few months after launching EB2000, when Sarwar
Jamil raised the idea of sending old computers from the United States
to Bangladesh. He had come in contact with someone in California
whose job was to junk old computers that were no longer in use. Tanvir
Chowdhury was immediately persuaded by the concept and suggested that
we enter into a project with the Learn
Foundation. Spearheaded by Imran
Rasheed, Learn Foundation was involved in providing computer
education and training to children in rural Bangladesh. Given this
ready prospect of making a valuable use of resources that are going to be
discarded anyway, we began discussions about how such a project could be
put together. It was then we discovered that this idea of sending
retired computers from the U.S. to Bangladesh was something that was
being discussed in many Bangladesh related Internet discussion
forums. Although there were no shortage of proponents for this
idea, most of the initiatives didn't go anywhere because of the lack of individual champions who
were willing to go the distance and institutional sponsors that were willing to support
them. Hence
the idea continued to stay as an idea with many scattered efforts here
and there till Abdul M. Ismail arrived at the scene. Here is his story....
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