Movie interviewed in a factory of Afghan emerging PC maker is open to the public

Located in Central Asia, Afghanistan has been exposed to war and terrorism for the past 30 years. However, due to US intervention, troops and talent migrated from overseas, infrastructure of Afghan capital Kabul showed a steady improvement.

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The following movies cover the PC makers in Afghanistan, their factories, and IT policies in Afghanistan.

Inside BlueSonic: Afghanistan's only PC factory - YouTube


Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has a population of over 3.5 million people.


On the road there are crowded cars.


Blue SonicIs a PC manufacturer in Afghanistan headquartered in Canada.


"We established a company in 2012 and our products are sold in Afghanistan as well as in Dubai and Canada," says Waheedullah Babrakzai, technical director of Blue Sonic.


Blue Sonic's factory is made with a desktop integrated PC. The work site is pretty beautiful, and the PC assembling on the belt conveyor flows. A production line was designed to assemble 60 to 70 people working in an assembly factory in Afghanistan, but it is still about 20 people working, which is a little bit crowded.


The assembly workers are smiling while they are picking up Blue Sonic'ssmartphoneis.


In addition to desktop integrated PCs and smart phones, notebook PCs ... ....


It also produces tablet PCs, TVs, mice, etc. There are also showrooms for Blue Sonic in the capital Kabul and Herat.


Along with the expansion of the company, there is also a movement for women in Afghanistan to advance into society in the future, and it is said that they want to make 50 to 60 people work in the assembly plant.


We are also considering putting women's sales staff for women customers.


"Of course we want to focus not only on technology and sales, but also on management and software development," Waheedullah Babrakzai says. Blue Sonic is also working on educational projects and has also started to develop applications for learning for tablets and mobile PCs.


Blue Sonic has been expanding overseas with assistance from overseas companies such as Microsoft and Intel, and this has become a company that is also at a glance in Afghanistan.


Blue Sonic has established an education center in Afghanistan and head office building.


Also, students are also trying to make vocational training at Blue Sonic.


"Currently in Afghanistan, maintenance is being carried out so that 10 million people out of the citizens can get access to the Internet by 2020," said the director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Bureau of Afghanistan (ATRA) I am Dr. Mohammad Najeeb Azizi.


Afghanistan decided to impose a 10% tax on the people to create communication facilities, medical facilities, educational institutions in the desert and mountainous areas, and in areas where infrastructure is not readily available.


Thanks to that, 80% of the public universities in Afghanistan already have an environment where they can freely connect to the Internet by optical fiber or WiMAX. For example, by expanding the area of ​​free Wi-Fi at Kabul University, more Afghans can connect to the Internet.


Although it is Afghanistan which has been threatened by war and terrorism for nearly 30 years, it has developed mainly in industries such as PC production, infrastructure such as education and social welfare has been developed, and it is growing rarely seen in recent years.