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1 November, 2002 Watery region hides hi-tech hothouse By Junaid Ahmed BBC Bengali Service At the school in the village of Durgapasha, in the northern Bangladeshi region of Sylhet, the only sign of any kind of technology is a radio tower providing a wireless internet link. Inside, the classrooms are full of energetic teenagers learning the intricacies of computer programming. They are taking part in a project run by the Learn Foundation [http://www.domaindlx.com/learnbd/scripts/html/home00.html ] to train Bangladesh's rural youth in computer skills. The foundation is backed by Bangladeshi millionaire Imran Rashid, a former computer science teacher with a radical vision to transform this watery region into a hothouse of digital know-how. <...> read complete story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2309595.stm
