Robi- 10 Minute School wins prestigious Glomo Awards 2017 at the Mobile World Congress

DHAKA, April 3 (NsNewsWire) — Robi-10 Minute School has recently won a GSMA Glomo award for the Best Mobile Innovation for Education and Learning in the “Connected Life Awards” category at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017. The announcement came during this year’s MWC – the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry recently held in Barcelona. Robi’s Managing Director and CEO, Mahtab Uddin Ahmed received the award on behalf of Robi at the MWC organised by the GSMA.

According to the judges, this mEducation initiative stood out for the scale and speed of adoption among all the other contenders for the award. They also felt that the Robi-10 Minute School was a very timely and critical endeavour that leverages on the leap of power of mobile. The other nominees in this category were Ooredoo Maldives for Ooredoo Smart Campus, PHD Media for Rin Career Ready Academy, Smart Communications for Batibot App, and Turkcell for Turkcell Academy Corporate LMS.

The GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards offer organisations across the global mobile eco-system the opportunity to showcase the latest and best mobile products, apps, devices, services, and initiatives to the industry and the world. The “Connected Life” award category reflects the rapid convergence of the mobile and education, highlighting key areas of genuine innovation throughout the world today.

Reflecting on winning the award, Robi’s Managing Director and CEO Mahtab Uddin Ahmed said, “This award has certainly lifted the morale of the company in its pursuit of becoming the Next Generation Digital Company by 2020. Driven by the national economic prosperity, we foresee mEducation service playing a crucial role in addressing the need for quality education across the country. Especially the Bangladeshi youth are joining this digital education platform in droves. The Glomo only inspires us work closely with youth in addressing their need for quality education over this digital platform.”

“Our congratulations to all of the winners and nominees of the GSMA’s Glomo Awards at Mobile World Congress this week,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. “The Glomo Awards truly showcase those companies and individuals that are driving innovation in the rapidly evolving mobile industry. We thank all of our entrants, judges, sponsors and partners for supporting the 2017 Glomo Awards.”

This is the first time, Robi Axiata Limited has won the Glomo award, which is considered to be the Oscar for the telecom sector by many in the industry.