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Welcome to Ankur.Org.BD!Ankur ICT Development Foundation (AIDF) is a non-profitable organization that envisions Bangladesh - as a country in which widespread access to high quality education, information, communication and technology lead to a more developed society. The mission of the organization is to eliminate the linguistic, economic and social barriers to the widespread use of Information & Communication Technology in Bangladesh. (More...) | ||
Ankur won e-Content and ICT for Development Award 2010  Ministry of Science and ICT, Government of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh (MoSICT) awarded Ankur as a Champion under the e-Localization Category for the first National e-Content and ICT for Development Award 2010 (eAward). The Ministry and D.net jointly arranged the contest. It held in 14 categories both for on-line and off-line content products and ICT interventions and applications. There were total 93 nominations, 48 finalist and 32 winners. The Contest is endorsed by World Summit Award. Award giving ceremony held at the National Museum on August 9, 2010. Honorable Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith attended as the chief guest while State Minister for Science and ICT Architect Yeafesh Osman was the special guest. [Mon, 09 August 2010 +2300] Ankur suppoting ToT organized with D.Net, Computer Jagat, Standard Chartered Bank  Ankur ICT Development Foundation supporting a Training for Teachers program collaboratively organized by D.Net, Computer Jagat and Standard Chartered Bank. The Training has been start on 30th May 2010 at the premises of D.Net and will end on 5th June 2010. Participants of the training program are school teachers from 14 schools from all over the country. The Training has organized under the program Computer Learning Center (CLC), and after completing the training program all participated schools will be equipped with 5 computers each and other logistics to establish computer learning centers. [Thu, 03 June 2010 +1700] Training of Bangla Computing at Sylhet  A training (TOT) on Bangla Computing has been held at Tajpur, Balagonj, Sylhet on 26-29 April, 2010 organized by Ankur ICT Development Foundation in collaboration with a local GPCIC named Manna IT Institute. UNO of Balagonj Upazilla Mr. Rafiqul Alam has inaugurate the training program on 26th April. In inauguration there was also present Mr. Mahay Alam Khan, General Secretary, Ankur ICT Development Foundation, Suhel Ahmed Chowdhury, CEO of Manna IT Institute and training team from Ankur. In this four day long training participants has learned about various Bangla localized Open-Source application including OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin. Ankur distribute the training materials and Certificate of Participation to all the participants who has successfully complete the training. [Thu, 29 April 2010 +1300] Training of Bangla Computing at Dinajpur  “Computer for all through cost effective Bangla Open source Software” titled 4 days Training session held at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University (HSTU), Dinajpur from 18th April to 21st April 2010. Community Development Association (CDA) and Ankur ICT development foundation jointly organized this training. Professor md. Ruhul Amin, Dean of Computer Science and Engineering of HSTU was the chief guest of the inauguration ceremony, Professor Dr. Balram Roy, Director, Institute of Research and Training (IRT) of HSTU was the special guest and Shah I Mobin Jinnah, Executive Director of CDA was also present at the inauguration ceremony. The Chief guest said in his speech that we have to make ICT universal if we want to develop Digital Bangladesh and it is impossible to make ICT universal if it is not in Bangla. Professor Dr. Balram Roy said we are not independent in language yet because we have obligations to use ICT on English. Executive Director, CDA described about works of CDA and encouraged the participants to practice of ICT in Bangla for social development. Mr. Mahay Alam Khan General Secretary Ankur ICT development foundation described about Ankur and objectives of the training course. Mr. Belayet Hossain, Training Coordinator of Ankur facilitated the 4 day training. 25 participants from different educational institute, university teachers, students, telecentre practitioner are participated in the training course. [Sun, 23 April 2010 +1433] Training on Bangla Computing at Noakhali  A training (TOT) on Bangla Computing has been held at Maijdee, Noakhali on 7-10 April, 2010 organized by Ankur ICT Development Foundation in collaboration with a local organization Digonter Dak. Police Super of Noakhali district Mr. Harun-or-Rashid Hazari was present at the inauguration and inaugurate the training program. In inauguration there was also present Mr. Abu Naser Khan, CEO, Digonter Dak and Mr. Mahay Alam Khan, General Secretary, Ankur ICT Development Foundation. In this four day long training participants has learned about various Bangla localized Open-Source application including OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin. Ankur distribute the training materials and Certificate of Participation to all the participants who has successfully complete the training. [Sat, 10 April 2010 +0130] GNOME 2.30 Released in Bangla  GNOME 2.30 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first-class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia, and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications. Ankur is the official localization authority for Bangla (bn) and have been doing so for the last several years. All famous Linux distribution uses GNOME as their primary desktop environment. If you are using Ubuntu or Fedora in Bangla, that's translated by us. Feel free to send us your feedback on translational. [Thursday, 01 April 2010 +0030] Workshop on Innovations in Education Festival at Netrokona  ICTs are transforming teaching and learning processes from being highly teacher-dominated to student-centered. This transformation will result in increased learning gains for students, creating and allowing for opportunities for learners to develop their creativity, problem-solving abilities, informational reasoning skills, communication skills, and other higher-order thinking skills. To address this transformation D.Net (Development Research Network) undertook initiative called “Innovations in Education” program. 27 and 28 March, 2010, D.Net has been organized two days Innovations in Education Festival at Netrokona, in collaboration with Intel, Netrokona District Administration and D.Net's local partner ARBAN. In this two days workshop Mr. Mahay Alam Khan, General Secretary, Ankur ICT Development Foundation were present. Mahay Alam Khan, general secretary of Ankur presented on their products, current development works on Bangla computing and about Training on Computer for All Through Cost Effective Bangla Open source Software. [Sun, 28 March 2010 +0630]
 Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released Bangla manuals for Bangla localized computer applications. With this manuals Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released new version [v0.04] of unicode supported Bangla spell checker add-on for Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and OpenOffice.org. In this version Ankur include more than 300,000 Bangla words where previous one [v0.02] had only 100,000 words. So the new spell checker is now able to work with better accuracy. Anyone can download this new spell check add-on from the download Section of Ankur Website. [Tue, 9 Feb 2010 +0530] Bangla Manuals for Bangla localized applications released  Recently Ankur ICT Development Foundation released Bangla manuals for Bangla localized computer applications. With this manuals any one who knows just Bangla can learn Bangla localized applications including OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Pidgin, VLC Media Player. Ankur is very optimistic about the prospect of Open Source Software in Bangladesh. They conduct some research works on general usage of computer applications and try to identify the required features and suitable solutions for Bangladesh. According to these identifications Ankur made some localize applications and their manuals which are ready to distribute. Ankur also released a translation glossary that will help to translate others applications as well. Any one can download these Bangla applications, their manuals and the translation glossary from Ankur's website www.ankur.org.bd. Also you can collect Ankur's products from Ankur's Stall (Stall No. E4) at BASIS Softexpo 2010 from 10-14th February. Ankur cordially invites you to visit the BASIS Softexpo. [Tue, 9 Feb 2010 +0530] Mozilla Bangla Thunderbird 3.0 released On 8th December 2009 Mozilla Foundation has released new version of open source based email client “Thunderbird 3.0”. Its all yours. New Thunderbird is faster, flexible and more secure. For simplification in code, stability, web compatibility and better performance the version has been changed in main architecture. Some new features has been added, among them are Tab Based Email Search, Advance Email Search and Filtering, Activity Manager, New Add-ones Manager, New Message Summary View. Moreover it has Advanced Security and Protection System. With contributions of Ankur, Thunderbird 3.0 has released in Bangla. So Thunderbird can be used in Bangla with all its functionalities. Anyone can download and use this new version without any cost. The download link is http://www.mozillamessaging.com/bn-BD/. For any query, feedback or suggestion you can email at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Wed, 9 Dec 2009 +0530] WordForge presented in FOSS.in/2009, Bangalore Muhammad Rezwan Shahid rafi the in-house Ankur Developer presented this year in FOSS.in at Bangalore. He presented the WordForge localization editor in the Main talk session on 4th December 2009. It was a nice presentation with a welcoming audience; experts from different language appreciated WordForg and it's feature over other localization editors. Some of them downloaded and started testing the beta 0.7; and promised to send us feedback. [Fri, 4 Dec 2009 +0530] Bangla localized Firefox 3.5 release party We have fully localized the Mozilla Firefox (version 3.5) into Bangla(Bangladesh), along with this we have developed a Bangla Spell Checker consist of 100,000 unique words. To celebrate this occasion, Ankur is arranging a release party supported by Mozilla foundation with swags and Presidency University with a place to host the party. There will be a lightening talk on Firefox 3.5 features and demonstration of Bangla spell checker. The party is open; join us to get Mozilla swags. Party details
[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 +0700] Bangla OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 released It is our pleasure to inform you that Bangla OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 has been released, which is based on the original source code of OpenOffice.org 3.1.x. OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. (More...) [Thu, 17 Sep 2009 +0600] Workshop on “Using the ICT in Education Toolkit for policymakers, Planners and Practitioners” Inaugurated On 27th April, 2009 Minister Mr. Nurul Islam Nahid, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education inaugurated a four days long workshop on “Using the ICT in Education Toolkit for policymakers, Planners and Practitioners” at BANBEIS, Palassy, Dhaka jointly organized by BANBEIS, UNDP and UNESCO in collaboration with Spanish Corporation and Ankur ICT Development Foundation (AIDF). (More...) [Tue, 28 Apr 2009 +0600]
Pidgin 2.5.3 is released with 100% Bangla translation, done by us. So from now on you can use Pidgin fully with Bangla interface. You can check some screen shots from our gallery. Hope the translation will be better in future releases. Please send us your valuable suggestions at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Mon, 22 Dec 2008 +0600]
We have done some R&D on MySQL database server and made a technical how-to document. Currently we are able to sort Bangla texts according to Bangla academy's general and dictionary based rules. Please check the document, try it yourself and let us know your feedback at feedback@ankur.org.bd. [Mon, 08 Dec 2008 +0600]
Ankur won the prestigious "Manthan Award 2008" in E-Localisation Category for it's Ubuntu Based Bangla Localised GNU/Linux Distribution "Hoimonti/হৈমন্তী". Total 284 nominations were submitted and 33 won in 8 categories. There were 14 submissions for E-localisation, only 3 won including Hoimonti. (More...) [Sun, 19 Oct 2008 +0600] See News Archive for more News. |
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