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Grameenphone Academy launched Freelancing Factory to expand the opportunity of earning $100K by 100+ students!

08 Oct, 2024

In Bangladesh, every year 2 Mn youth are added to the job market while only a handful of jobs are on offer. Thus, it is hardly possible to match employment opportunity for this huge flock. Other side of the story, the biggest freelancing platform Upwork is ready with 10 Mn jobs to offer and worldwide, the average earning of a freelancer per hour is $21. If we can ensure the skills match, Bangladesh can be the biggest supplier in the global freelancing market, and this can become our national economic success story!
With this objective, Grameenphone Academy has launched ‘Freelancing Factory’ with an ambition to make a pool of 106 students to earn $1000 in 8 months through a mentor-led upskilling program. Hans Martin, Chief Corporate Officer of Grameenphone, officially kicked off the program and accoladed the diverse cohort with a demography of 40% female and 19% outside of Dhaka. Two young mentors, Yasin Ahmed and Muntasir Hasnat, have taken the challenge to guide the selected students to make this pilot project a success. The students will learn UX/UI and Web development through WordPress through 64 online class during this time in two (2) separate batches.
Two students from audience panel shared their experience and expectation which are testimonials for the validity of the initiative. Tamanna, resident of Borguna-Amtoli, came to Dhaka just to join the session. She completed a number courses from different platforms including Grameenphone Academy but she is in need of hand holding instructions to implement the learning to earning. Tamanna is one of the qualified students, out 600+ applicants, who passed the two level assessments.
Ragib Raiyan; BSc Engineer from Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal-Mymensingh; with hearing challenge expressed his hope and confidence to start earning through this guided learning program. Sayeda Tahya Hossain, our Chief Human Resources Officer, motivated the participants and encouraged them to learn skills and look for opportunity to apply them in a wider domain. Grameenphone CEO, Yasir Azman, inspired the crowd with the story of Zero to one, encouraging the youth to break the zero and start their earning journey. Overwhelmed to see and hear the stories of the enthusiastic youth, our CEO also expressed his desire of being a freelancer if he got the opportunity to restart his career!
The following workshop was conducted by both the instructors who shared the curriculum and the detailed learning plans for the next Eight months. Students were inquisitive expressing their solid expectation from the program.
Head of Talent Management, Rifaqat Rasheed, and Farhana Islam, Head of ESG along with their team also joined the session and expressed their intention to make the program scalable to create a rolling and sustainable impact to the economy of Bangladesh.
Finger crossed for the Freelancing Factory to kick start the earning journey!

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Grameenphone Academy launched Freelancing Factory to expand the opportunity of earning $100K by 100+ students!

08 Oct, 2024
In Bangladesh, every year 2 Mn youth are added to the job market while only a handful of jobs are on offer. Thus, it is hardly possible to match employment opportunity for this huge flock. Other side of the story, the biggest freelancing platform Upwork is ready with 10 Mn jobs to offer and worldwide, the average earning of a freelancer per hour is $21. If we can ensure the skills match, Bangladesh can be the biggest supplier in the global freelancing market, and this can become our national economic success story!
With this objective, Grameenphone Academy has launched ‘Freelancing Factory’ with an ambition to make a pool of 106 students to earn $1000 in 8 months through a mentor-led upskilling program. Hans Martin, Chief Corporate Officer of Grameenphone, officially kicked off the program and accoladed the diverse cohort with a demography of 40% female and 19% outside of Dhaka. Two young mentors, Yasin Ahmed and Muntasir Hasnat, have taken the challenge to guide the selected students to make this pilot project a success. The students will learn UX/UI and Web development through WordPress through 64 online class during this time in two (2) separate batches.
Two students from audience panel shared their experience and expectation which are testimonials for the validity of the initiative. Tamanna, resident of Borguna-Amtoli, came to Dhaka just to join the session. She completed a number courses from different platforms including Grameenphone Academy but she is in need of hand holding instructions to implement the learning to earning. Tamanna is one of the qualified students, out 600+ applicants, who passed the two level assessments.
Ragib Raiyan; BSc Engineer from Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal-Mymensingh; with hearing challenge expressed his hope and confidence to start earning through this guided learning program. Sayeda Tahya Hossain, our Chief Human Resources Officer, motivated the participants and encouraged them to learn skills and look for opportunity to apply them in a wider domain. Grameenphone CEO, Yasir Azman, inspired the crowd with the story of Zero to one, encouraging the youth to break the zero and start their earning journey. Overwhelmed to see and hear the stories of the enthusiastic youth, our CEO also expressed his desire of being a freelancer if he got the opportunity to restart his career!
The following workshop was conducted by both the instructors who shared the curriculum and the detailed learning plans for the next Eight months. Students were inquisitive expressing their solid expectation from the program.
Head of Talent Management, Rifaqat Rasheed, and Farhana Islam, Head of ESG along with their team also joined the session and expressed their intention to make the program scalable to create a rolling and sustainable impact to the economy of Bangladesh.
Finger crossed for the Freelancing Factory to kick start the earning journey!

CEO's magic at SUST

19 May, 2024

With a passionate goal of preparing youth for 'Future Ready Bangladesh', Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman took a masterclass for SUST students at the campus premise. Grameenphone Academy cocreated the session along with Sylhet Circle and 'Pothe pothe' team.

The interactive session was touched on diverse influence of AI, sustainable leadership and the empathetic role of both AI and a Leader. His remarkable tips include - 'Follow your passion, Be genuine' and his recent lesson from a young influencer from Bolorumpur 'Nobody is a mistake. Everyone has a role to play'

Honorable Vice Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed along with his faculty members joined the session to welcome GP and encourage the young minds to learn. 

Chief Digital Officer Solaiman Alam joined the session and exchange his views with the university management. The sylhet circle business head Taufiq Jahan along with his team were actively into the session to strengthen the bridge with academia and industry. 

'One hour UX' at Academy Stage

12 May, 2024

In today’s industry of rapidly growing interfaces, the adoption of user experience streamlines any form of human/device interaction.

GP Academy hosted a masterclass on “One Hour UX” where around 300 inquisitive minds, including a group of 44 CSE students from DU, attended to delve into the UX, from understanding user psychology to mastering the art of prototyping. Every facet of UX was  explored within this one-hour e-certified training session by Md Ashraful Alam, Lead UX Designer of MyGP.

The event kicked off with an inauguration speech by Solaiman Alam, Chief Digital Officer, who shared his impactful journey through digital experiences.

Later on, amidst the buzz of the crowd, AppCity took the stage to shed light on gaining hands-on user experience to develop their ideas into practical apps.

The 1st session of Grameenphone Academy in 2024

19 Feb, 2024

Chief Digital Officer Solaiman Alam joined the session and exchange his views with the university management. The sylhet circle business head Taufiq Jahan along with his team were actively into the session to strengthen the bridge with academia and industry. 

14 Next Business Leaders (NBL) of Grameenphone hit the stage and had a roller coaster journey with 350+ students crossing the rough patches of CV writing, Case Cracking, FGD, Roleplay, interview hacks and what not

Chief Information Officer of Grameenphone, Niranjan Srinivasan, inaugurated the event and shared his insightful experiences as a beginner who started his career 22 years back.



Students from different universities included University of Dhaka, IUB, IUT, Faridpur Engineering College, Pabna University of Science & Technology, Jagannath University, BUP, Badrunnessa College etc.


Grameenphone academy with 'Freelancing opportunities in Bangladesh'

18 Jul, 2023
Enayet Chowdhury, Lecturer of BUET and youth influencer with a total of 1 Mn followers in FB and Youtube, enlightened the academy students on Gig Economy which is a rising market in Bangladesh. 320+ students from at least 25 universities and colleges joined the early morning session at GPhouse on 18 July, 2023. The guest speaker started the session with an eye opening statement that ‘Freelancing is not linked to Upwork & fiber only’. He also covered the hybrid model which is blended with both permanent job and freelancing. The reference of free and professional courses as a guiding tool for the students made the session even more effective and meaningful.
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