Satellite as a tool of learning
Saturday, 12 December 2009
STUDENTS with good results in Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations from the science background come to the capital city with the expectation of becoming scientists. In interaction with them, one gets encouraging picture. Many of the boys and girls want to become astronauts. The girls are not daunted by the challenges experienced by woman astronaut Julie Paette, who flew 4.0 million miles on Space Shuttle Discovery 1999 as a crew member. Many young Bangladeshi girls are eager to become astronauts to carry the flag of Bangladesh to outer space. Listening to them one cannot check tears. The boys and girls were not so ambitious four decades back they are now.
The communication satellite would encourage the ambitious girls and boys of Bangladesh to dream more for the future. The Post and Telecommunication Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju deserves praise for the initiative.
Bangladesh is behind many countries in the use of modern technology, particularly in communications and space science. But for some activities of SPARRSO space science remains unknown to this country. The young in Bangladesh do not get the opportunity study space science. Bangladesh needs to introduce its young with space science studies. The young should be provided the opportunity to grow up with new ideas and vision. They should be equipped with modern technology. The communication satellite would improve Bangladesh's telecom services. Telecom operators would be able to take its service on commercial basis. It would facilitate television broadcasting and meteorological data collection for providing disaster warnings in advance. It would also facilitate mapping natural resources and weather prediction for the benefit of the farmers.
The university students in the faculties of science and technology would benefit from the satellite. As satellite communication is taught a number of university departments, the satellite would be a tool of technology learning for the students.
If anything, the plan for launching the satellite proves that nothing is difficult, given the will. The initiative would benefit Bangladesh. The United Nations University (UNU) under the UNESCO deserves praise for appointing Science Connect Country Ambassadors in different countries for attending training programmes almost every month to identify the problems with regard to application of science and their solutions in the concerned countries.
Some of the problems being common to most developing countries, solutions for a developing country like Bangladesh, are not difficult to find. Skilled human resources can bring a tremendous change for using technology for economic development. They need to connect under the Science Connect Ambassador for solutions. (Science Connect Country Ambassador for Bangladesh and founder VC of Science and Technology University in Rural Bangladesh, the writer could be contacted at e-mail: lutfor@agni.com)
The communication satellite would encourage the ambitious girls and boys of Bangladesh to dream more for the future. The Post and Telecommunication Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju deserves praise for the initiative.
Bangladesh is behind many countries in the use of modern technology, particularly in communications and space science. But for some activities of SPARRSO space science remains unknown to this country. The young in Bangladesh do not get the opportunity study space science. Bangladesh needs to introduce its young with space science studies. The young should be provided the opportunity to grow up with new ideas and vision. They should be equipped with modern technology. The communication satellite would improve Bangladesh's telecom services. Telecom operators would be able to take its service on commercial basis. It would facilitate television broadcasting and meteorological data collection for providing disaster warnings in advance. It would also facilitate mapping natural resources and weather prediction for the benefit of the farmers.
The university students in the faculties of science and technology would benefit from the satellite. As satellite communication is taught a number of university departments, the satellite would be a tool of technology learning for the students.
If anything, the plan for launching the satellite proves that nothing is difficult, given the will. The initiative would benefit Bangladesh. The United Nations University (UNU) under the UNESCO deserves praise for appointing Science Connect Country Ambassadors in different countries for attending training programmes almost every month to identify the problems with regard to application of science and their solutions in the concerned countries.
Some of the problems being common to most developing countries, solutions for a developing country like Bangladesh, are not difficult to find. Skilled human resources can bring a tremendous change for using technology for economic development. They need to connect under the Science Connect Ambassador for solutions. (Science Connect Country Ambassador for Bangladesh and founder VC of Science and Technology University in Rural Bangladesh, the writer could be contacted at e-mail: lutfor@agni.com)