To spark conversation on GP’s commitment to environmental sustainability and finding green energy solutions to combat climate change, GP brought together public & private experts and diplomatic community in a roundtable discussion titled : Green Energy Ecosystem in Bangladesh on 5th June in celebration of World Environment Day
Grameenphone Academy, with 60K enrollment within one year, conducted 23 free classes on career, tech transformation, freelancing & branding. The academy offers free online e-certified courses from its platform www.grameenphone.academy which provided 27K+ certificates till Q2, 35% of which is female.
The devastating flash flood in Bangladesh’s north and the north-eastern region left millions of people in need of shelter, food, and healthcare. As part of its CSR activities, Grameenphone and the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) jointly helped fight the ordeal through relief and rehabilitation efforts.
Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) in partnership with GYLC organised a summit to explore how today’s youth can lead the fight against climate change in October. Grameenphone was the sponsor of the event. Summit participants took part in a tree plantation programme in a mangrove forest at Laudobe in the coastal belt. Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman accompanied them.
Grameenphone employees have observed “Grameenphone Green Week 2022” from 16 to 19 May 2022 with the sincere objective to accept the ‘Green Pledge’ and address environmental sustainability through every possible course of action in daily lives through the Three Rs – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
An MoU has been signed recently between Grameenphone, Northern Education Group (NEG), country partner of Kotler Impact and Asiatic Mindshare Bangladesh, media partner of Grameenphone, centering a special textbook titled “Essentials of Modern Marketing” (EOMM) by Professor Philip Kotler and his associates is to be written and published in 2022. The book will illustrate Grameenphone’s success case in Bangladesh.
Grameenphone and Telenor Group, in association with Plan International, ran a survey in August and September 2021 among youth with COVID-19 as the backdrop on how internet use and online bullying trends have changed across four countries, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand.
On the occasion of National Youth Day celebrated on 01 November, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Grameenphone joined up to establish an alliance called "Future Nation" for realizing the full potential of the demographic dividend of the youth population of Bangladesh. Sudipto Mukerjee, Resident Representative of UNDP Bangladesh and Yasir Azman, Chief Executive Officer of Grameenphone, inked the partnership on behalf of their respective organizations.
Grameenphone, Telenor Group and UNICEF signed a partnership agreement on July setting out an ambitious strategy to further strengthen and scale online protection for children in Bangladesh. The agreement was signed by Ole Bjorn, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Grameenphone Ltd. and Dara Johnston, OIC Deputy Representative, UNICEF.
Ookla, the global leader in internet testing and analysis, has once again recognized Grameenphone as the ‘Fastest Mobile Network’ in Bangladesh for quarter-1 and quarter-2 of 2019.
Every day we touch lives of millions of people. Starting from our consumers, to distributors to partners to communities where we work. Because as a business we want to help unlock the benefits of the digital revolution and demonstrate how more can be achieved with connectivity. Stand next to the most vulnerable when there is any disaster. In parallel we work to raise standards and deliver broader access to our services.
Our flagship project is all about making children safer online. As we understand that in Bangladesh, mass internet penetration is still a recent phenomenon. Many still have preconceived negative notions around the internet. Grameenphone has been educating and actively advocating safer internet usage among schoolchildren in Bangladesh since 2014.
Starting from 2014 Grameenphone have reached out to more than 140,000 students in different 600 schools across Bangladesh and directly engaged with 35,000 parents, teachers and guardians. In 2017 alone, Grameenphone reached out to more than 52,000 school children in over 250 schools across the country to create awareness and educate children, especially girls, on personal online safety,
Recently Grameenphone and Telenor Group partnered with UNICEF to promote Child Online Safety in Bangladesh and an agreement in this regard was signed on June 10, 2018 between the organizations. Under this agreement, Grameenphone, Telenor Group and UNICEF will launch a specially designed “Child Online Safety” programme. The programme is designed to directly engage and empower 400,000 children aged between 11 and 16 years and sensitize 50,000 parents, guardians and teachers on how to facilitate a safer internet experience. Additionally, the program will closely work to increase general awareness around safe usage of internet.
Grameenphone CEO said, “We have been working on keeping our young minds safe while they use the internet as we want the people of Bangladesh to use and reap its benefit without any apprehension or reservation. The partnership with UNICEF collectively demonstrates how our passion and commitment can make a significant difference in creating safe learning opportunities for the children and significantly enhance their capacity to access the world of information confidently.”
Apart from online safety, the company has also supported the community through disaster response efforts in partnership with Red Crescent. During the severe floods last year Grameenphone had provide relief packs to 55,000 severely affected families across the country. Each relief packwas prepared with provisions to feed a 4-member family for 15 days.
