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Bangladesh’s Sameen Alam and his team win TYF Finale
DHAKA, May 29, 2019 (BSS) – AgriMatch, a mobile application that uses geo-
location to connect farmers to middlemen and vice versa, has won the Telenor
Youth Forum 2018-2019 Finale.
The app was developed by Sameen Alam and his team targeting inequalities
in the rice supply chain in Asia. The winning team of youth delegates also
won a US$15,000 in seed funding to implement their idea, said a press release
here today.
The Telenor Youth Forum’s 2018-2019 programme concluded at the headquarters
of Telenor’s Bangkok operations dtac on Tuesday.
At the programme, delegations comprising of 16 young leaders from eight
nations, including Bangladesh, pitched four services to Telenor Group and
dtac leadership. Judges included dtac CEO Alexandra Reich, Telenor Group
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Ana Karin Kvam and experts from Plan
International, UNICEF and the Nobel Peace Centre.
Telenor Youth Forum kicked off during the Nobel Peace Prize week in Oslo in
December 2018, where the 16 delegates, aged 20-28 from different Telenor
markets, were split into four teams, each with a health-related challenge to
solve clean water, sustainable agriculture, elderly population and mental
health.
From that point onwards, the delegates worked to develop their ideas,
conduct user research and prototype their services, leading them to the
Bangkok finale.
The multi-national winning AgriMatch team consisted of Sameen Alam,
Bangladesh, Rachel Loh, Malaysia, Emilie Udn’s, Norway and Ingrid Rasmussen,
Denmark.
This is for the second time in a row a Bangladeshi TYF delegate represented
the team that clinched the title. Last year Myat Moe Khaing and her team,
mentored by Grameenphone CEO Michael Foley, won the same title around their
project “Decent Working Conditions for All”.
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