Technology
Nokrek IT turns ten: from a courtyard in Madhupur forest to a lakh trained freelancers
Subir Nokrek earned $75 on his first job in 2017 and started teaching neighbours from his yard. On Friday his institute celebrated its…
Tagged “Garo”
Technology
Trishna Dio turned down a job in Australia to earn dollars from Kakorkandi village; load-shedding is her only rival
An MBA, a Dhaka HR job she hated, a graphics course in Mymensingh, an $86 first order, and now Tk 60,000-86,000 a month from a Garo village…
Technology
Three weeks after the report, Madhupur's Garo freelancers get 4G, and throw a festival
Grameenphone's chief executive read the story about modems tied to trees, put a temporary tower in Gaira, and on 12 March the villages of…
Technology
Modems hung from lychee trees: the Garo freelancers of Madhupur forest working on 2G
Around 350 young Garo people trained at Nokrek IT Institute earn dollars from villages ten kilometres inside Tangail's Madhupur forest…