"Innovative" use of technology boosting rural education in Bangladesh

The "innovative" use of technology is helping to boost rural education in Bangladesh according to the founder of a school who has been nominated as a UN Young Leader for the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs.

Shougat Nazbin Khan set up H A Digital School & College in the north of the Asian country in 2014 in order to educate disadvantaged rural communities.

She was chosen as one of 17 change-makers for each of the 17 SDGs, a set of targets to eradicate extreme poverty and combat climate change over the next 15 years.

Twenty-seven year old Ms Khan has been speaking to UN's Daniel Dickinson.

SOURCE: UN Radio