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On Friday, June 28, Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Daffodil International University and entrepreneurship program of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) “Chakri Khujbo Na Chakri Debo” jointly organized a program for the 5th time to honor the young entrepreneurs.

Preity Waresa, Director of “Chakri Khujbo na Chakri Debo” said, on the basis of the working performance in 2018, 19 entrepreneurs have been honored. Group coordinator Promi Nahid said that more than 200 nominations were elected by the Judges and out of them, eight new entrepreneurs and nine entrepreneurs have been selected for the prize.

IPDC Managing Director Maminul Islam, Managing Director of Sohoz Dot Com, Maliha Kadir, Country Manager of Marks and Spencer Swapna Bhowmick, EPB Secretary Abu Hena Morshed Zaman, Chittagong Commissioner of Tax Commissioner Badal Syed, Principal of Skity handed over the honor to the entrepreneurs in this program.

FM Plastic Industries Limited, Skylark Software Limited and Pridezoom sponsored this year. Beside this, Amar Pay, Ideal Publications, Alpha Printers, AR Communication, BD Venture Limited, Vijkop, Desi Biker, E-Courier Limited, Focus Frame, Pharmacon, IPDC Finance Limited, Kori Dot Com, Mars Printing, Nirvijal, Okhanei dot com, Priyoshop, protractor, PTRC, Rocket courier, source of product, citizen, startup grind, startup hurdle, SME VAI, Tan, wallet Mix, Soukhin by Kanon, Paratik Food & Beverage, WP developers and Zishan food cooperates in this event.

In 2018 Entrepreneur Award was received by BD Assistant Limited, Hotel Tropical Daisy, Nexpark Limited, Elgomatrix, Garner Theory Ltd, Shopnojatra, Hellotask and Amar Room Dot Com.

Shubab Leather, Digisoft Technologies, Rangpur Sources, Suddho Krishi, Doyita, Jute Crafts Industries, People's Footwear and Leather Goods, Prime IT Limited and Pridesys IT Limited received the entrepreneurship memorabilia.

Among the creative entrepreneurs, Sajogoj was honored with the Nurul Kader Award and the workshop entrepreneur Rupagram Agro farm was given Yusuf Chowdhury Award.

Women students pledge to represent Bangladesh as a proficient programmer in the world market

Work means problem solving. Programming is now universally accepted in the world market as a method of solving problem rather than traditional practice. Now the demand for manpower is increasing that can represent Bangladesh in the programming world. But in the field of programming in Bangladesh the presence of men is noticed, but the number of women programmers is relatively small. That's why, Bangladesh Open Source Network organizes several programming camps across the country with the aim of increasing the participation of female students in programming and the development of skilled women programmers.

In its continuation, the three-day 'Grace Hopper Girls’ Programming Camp' was organized jointly by the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Asia Pacific (UAP) and Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) in Dhaka. About 30 women students of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the university participated in this three-day camp held on 28th and 29th June and 6th July.

Starting on June 28th, from two days students learned about the basic issues of programming. From morning on 6 July they learned the essentials for participating in programming contests and participated in a programming contest from 2pm on that day. On 7th July, on the campus of the University, a certificate was handed over to the participants and to the winner of programming contests through a unique closing ceremony by Bilkis Jamal Ferdousi and General Secretary of BdOSN Munir Hasan.

Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,UAP, Bilkis Jamal Ferdousi said for the coming students to the closing ceremony that for sustainable development of information technology girls need programming skills as well as male students. Munir Hassan, General Secretary, BdOSN said that it is important to learn coding in any aspect of the practical life. Because the programming teaches how to solve a big problem with small breaks. "

Prior to this, Farjana Islam Shashi, a third year student of computer science and engineering department of the university, participated in different programming contests. She was missing the fun of doing programming. She said, "Coming to the camp, the difficulty of programming has been cut short ". She dreamed of presenting Bangladesh to a large organization like Google in future.

It is to be noted that in order to encourage women and increase the participation of women in the field of information technology, the camp organized by the Bangladesh Open Source Network under "Enabling Sustainable Development Goals for Bangladesh - SDG4BD" project. Manuser Jonno Foundation is looking into the overall development of the project. Under this three-year project, similar camps will be organized at different places in different phases of the country.

Semiconductor industry in the global technology market is rapidly growing. Record of income in world semiconductor applications reached $ 480 billion. Uses of different types of devices in Bangladesh are increasing day by day. And the demand for chips for these devices is increasing at a very high rate. Therefore, chip production is an important step to make parts for domestic technology. Bangladesh can also contribute to the global semiconductor industries if the domestic chip manufacturer workforce is established.

Innovative competition Tiger Challenge starts from July 2 with the aim of providing an investment of nearly $ 2 million. Tiger IT Foundation organizes this competition jointly with MIT on the basis of the competition  MIT Solve of the world famous Massachuset Institute of Technology (MIT). In the domestic and global competition, winning teams will receive approximately $ 2 million in financial, technical, and investment facilities. This information was announced at the inauguuration ceremony of the Tiger Challange on Tuesday 18th june, 2019 at Sonargao Hotel.

Mutual respect among men and women helps the society to grow, it also plays an important role in building a workplace in a feminine working environment. By eliminating the social constraints, who set the brilliant example of success at workplace should spread their story to encourage the others. This opinion has emerged that in a free dialogue titled “Women in Technology Workplace”.

When the coder of today talking about their job and about how they have done their duties in their idiosyncratic programming language- elderly peoples get a blank face in response. In this fastest growing world, programing and coding is now a specialized core skill for all smarter citizen. Few days before, programing was dominated only by men and less interest was shown in our women’s world. But any revolution couldn’t be achieved without our female citizen. Yes, that’s why we have popping up some programming camps for girls to raise eagerness about programming in all over our country. Under a project- “Enabling Sustainable Development Goals of Bangladesh for 2030-BdOSN”, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has organized a programming camp in Cox’s Bazar.

Bangladesh Open Source Network has running severel programs to engage a large commiunity of women in growing field of information and communication technologies (ICTs).For increasing women participation in ICT, we welcomed our first event of 'Girls in ICT'  in this year. Partnering with the Google Developers Group-GDG Bangla, we have arranged a mentor training program in Google Cloud Study Jam on 10^th May, 2019. In this program participants get the basic knowledge about  fundamental tools and capabilities of Google Cloud. The baseline of this event was to provide knowledge about Machine Learning (MI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

Girls are doing great in all the development field of the country. But unfortunately, rural girls are lag behind, specially in the field of technology. This sector offers great opportunities to access the women in this field easily. Bangladesh Open Source network (BOSN) has running a program named “MISSING DAUGHTER” to bring girls into the limelight of science and technology and encourage them to increase their participations and involvement in this field.

In Bangladesh, most of the rural girls’ students are disadvantaged in technological sector compared to the urban students. Bearing that in mind, Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB) and Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has organized a two-days program (22February- 23February,2019) titled “Obak Kutuhole” in collaboration with KAZI IT Center. The idea behind this program is to make the girls desirous to science and technology through an enjoyable and joyful journey.