An award from Europe for Turk Telekom’s support for education

Dec. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- The Vitamin Bağışı project, implemented by Turkey’s leading communication and convergence technologies group Turk Telekom in order to introduce modern educational practices to schools, has been awarded as the “Best Innovation” at the “Best Business Awards”, one of the most prestigious awards in the UK.

Türk Telekom supports education through the interactive education software Vitamin Bağışı developed by the Group company Sebit. Vitamin is offered for free to around 9 million students.

Stating that the awards they have received one after the other recently are the result of focused efforts, Türk Telekom CEO K. Gökhan Bozkurt said:  “In addition to innovative products and services that add value to our customers’ lives and that are developed through long-term strategies, our aim to create value for our country’s future enables Türk Telekom to become one of the world’s leading companies. We are proud to see that the success of the projects we have implemented under the Tükiye’ye Değer concept in order to offer educational content to wider masses through the Internet and support equal opportunity in education are confirmed once more by the Best Business Awards. This achievement gives us strength and courage for future projects. Our efforts to enable our youth and children to access the most advanced educational technologies through an innovative approach shall continue.”

Commenting on Türk Telekom’s success, Best Business Awards President Andrew Areoff said: “Türk Telekom undertakes a leading role in offering equal education opportunity to the developing regions in Turkey with the Vitamin Bağışı project, developed to support education. Vitamin is a fine example of a large corporation using modern technology for the benefit of the society. Türk Telekom and the Group company Sebit  should be applauded for this extraordinary venture, for their dynamism and innovative approach.”

Türk Telekom develops projects in order to enable wider access to information and technology, and to support the elimination of the digital gap in education under the umbrella of the “Türkiye’ye Değer” projects. Türk Telekom Schools consisting of 72 educational facilities and Internet Homes offering free Internet service all over Turkey are among Türk Telekom’s most prominent projects for education.

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Türk Telekom which is Turkey’s leading telecommunications and convergence company provides integrated telecommunications services from fixed line and GSM to broadband Internet.