 Thanks for joining us here at ITU headquarters for Wissi's Forum 2019 where we discussed the role of ICTs to enhance access to education and our guest to talk about it is Mr. Mohamed Rafiq al-Islam of the ICT division of the Bangladeshi government and you work in the A2I division in particular. Now, let's talk about this program that you have been presenting here at Wissi's Forum and for which you are champions actually for the second year, you were champions in 2016 and this year and it's called Teachers Portal and it's all about sharing resources amongst teachers to enhance access to education. Tell us more about it. Thank you very much. Teachers Portal is a very big and you can say the most important portal for teachers and education community in Bangladesh because teachers, we have one million teachers, near about one million teachers, it's a big, big volume but the problem is that they cannot actually share their own contents or can get good quality contents from any other sides and even they are not connected with each other. So we found that if we connect teachers in a very meaningful way then it may increase the quality of education. That's why the Teachers Portal actually came here in 2013 and since 2013 we found that there are right now 350,000 teachers, more than 350,000 teachers member and they have shared more than 155,000 contents among themselves and besides this content sharing, Teachers Portal is also opening up the opportunity for comparatively weaker teachers to get mentoring and coaching from the good teachers. So this is also a peer coaching and learning platform too. So it's much more than just a collaborative platform. Absolutely. Fantastic and I believe you have a rating system as well, I haven't seen for teachers, how does it work? Yes, that's the brilliant interventions that we found within five or six years that every week three teachers become best content developer and there is a leaderboard at the right wing of Teachers Portal. The address of that Teachers Portal is www.teaceres.gov.bd. I mean www.teachers.gov.bd. So if you just enter this URL you will find that in the right wing there is a corner called best content developer. So every week three teachers become best content developer on the basis of their pedagogical rating that is given by the experts, pedagogical experts. So in every Friday this refreshed, every three teachers become new content developer and they become so much, you know, interested and glorious to share their social media, this success in the social media and local newspapers. So we found that it's not incentive or it's not kind of money or cash that, you know, ignite the teacher's potential. It is somehow, it's kind of motivation or recognition within the community that makes the magic. I believe you are addressing several SDGs with your solution on to you and one of them is also gender inclusion. Right, right. This was a very meaningful findings that we found that, you know, in the, we have near about 35 percent female teachers. So it's a big number. But in the physical training program, in the residential program, you will find very few, few number of female teachers present there because there are so many barriers, you know, geographical barriers. And it's quite difficult for them to live in some cases in the context of developing country to leave their houses to get a residential training for three or four days. But what we found in teacher's portal that many female teachers, about 39 percent female teachers are becoming leaders in the leaderboard, best content developer because they are finding this technology, this opportunity, sitting their home, developing good contents and sharing with their colleagues. And this actually has brought in their opportunities to share and get coaching from distance, even without leaving their, you know, discomfortable zone or something like that. So I think this is the way that teacher's portal actually leverage the opportunities for women from the rural areas. I mean, women, I mean the female teachers, basically, they are actually using this portal as their, you know, very good medium to express their opinions and contents. Well, Mr. Mohamed Rafiq al-Islam, thank you very much. Thank you very much, too.