Dhaka: Country’s first ever educational content sharing portal was launched on Tuesday aiming to make learning materials available for students, teachers and guardians as well.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid inaugurated the content sharing portal as the chief guest at a function in a city hotel. State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak, vice-chancellor of the University of Asia Pacific Jamilur Reza Chowdhury, director general of Prime Minister’s Office Neelufar Ahmed, among others, addressed the function with Managing Director and chairman of Ethics Advanced Technology Limited (EATL) MA Mubin Khan in the chair.

Nahid said, ‘We have made ICT as a compulsory subject in educational curriculum and all educational institutions have been brought under information technology (IT) facilities to enhance quality education in the country.’

Despite financial limitation, the government has distributed computer and other ICT facilities to create skilled human resources, he added.

‘As part of massive digitization campaign, we have trained teachers on ICT to develop digital content to contribute the efforts to improve standard of education,’ Nahid added. He urged the affluent section of the people to extend their helping hand with initiative of promoting ICT based education.

Palak said, ‘Infrastructure and device are there..... We need to develop quality content to make ICT based education popular and effective.’

The government is planning to bring nearly 1,70,000 educational institutions under internet facilities to fulfill the target, he added.

‘Any student, teacher and guardian can log in to uphold and share their education materials through visiting the portal,’ Mubin said adding, in this portal, any person can have an account and subscription for free.

EATL has developed the educational portal first time in Bangladesh to ensure educational content available for all, he added.