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International Girls In ICT Day is internationally celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April every year. The motive is to encourage girls and young women to study and select ICT as their career. Bangladesh Open Source Network(BdOSN) is celebrating Girls In ICT day since 2015 with Women In Digital. There are a lot of events in the celebration of International Girls In ICT day such as open house day, boot camp, workshop, school quiz and roundtable discussion.

Jenex is one of the biggest call centers in Bangladesh. There was an open house day visit on Jenex on 24th May 2017. There were a total number of 25 participants from different universities. MD Faysal Alam Riyad, coordinator, BdOSN led the girls. The girls were amazed that every one of them talked to call center at least for once and they didn't know how a center works. They learned a lot about the call center in this visit. The girls were so interested that they visited the other branch at Nitol Tower on khilkhet. There were some girls who already decided to drop their CV on Jenex as it's not too hard to work there.

MD Faysal Alam Riyad said "The girls were very curious about the visit and after the visit, they looked very happy." He also thanked Jenex for giving the girls a chance to visit their office.

Let’s welcome the newly joined members of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) from Central Women's University (CWU). There was a 3 day long Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp at CWU. It was so successful that they were very interested in being long-term members of our initiatives on ICT, Computer Programming, Coding and relevant contests.

Here is the member list with their taken roles:

Apart from them, there is one moderator named:

Ayesha Aziz Prova, Lecturer, CSE

The three honorable advisors on the board are:

1. Mst. Shahnaj Parvin, Associate Professor, CSE

2. Sher Shermin Azmeri Khan, Assistant Professor, CSE

3. Md Mainul Islam, Assistant Professor, CSE

The software is a tool for computer to solve different tasks. And open source software's are this software which is free for everyone to use and also the software source code is available for anyone to edit and make a better version for use.

HSTU-OSN organized a seminar on computer fundamental and introduction to introduce the open source software to all and let them know about the benefits of using open source software on 4th June 2017 at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University. The seminar started at 3:30 PM. It was managed the managing editor of HSTU-OSN Rakibul Islam and performed by the financial affairs secretary of HSTU-OSN Mir Muhaiminul Hoque. HSTU-OSN general secretary Fahim Ahmed and HSTU-OSN assistant general secretary Sourav Das were also present there as guest. Former moderator of HSTU-OSN and assistant professor of CSE department Delwar Hossain and Ashish Kumar Mondal, HSTU-OSN current moderator and professor of ECE department Tanzina Sultana Dristy and professor of the CSE department Nahid Sultan was also present there.

General Secretary of HSTU-OSN Md. Mazharul Islam Mukut gave an introduction and shared the activities of HSTU-OSN at the first part. On the second part, workshop affairs secretary of HSTU-OSN Sabbir Ahmed talked about Computer fundamentals and benefit of using open source software. The seminar ended with a satisfaction of participant that they were able to know a lot of things about open source software and computer

Today's Computer Programmers are the wizards of tomorrow because they are the one who's doing the development on ICT. And nowadays ICT is used everywhere. Event the agriculture have the usage of ICT. This development can't be done by the men only. Women also need to work with the men. But the present status tells a different story. Women have a lack of interest in ICT. Even though they study in computer science engineering they don't seem to have ICT as their career. Bangladesh Open Source Network is working on making girls interested in ICT careers. It has a lot of programs, event, and workshop for teaching girls computer programming hands-on to make girls interested to take ICT as their career.

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organized a Grace Hopper Girl Programming Camp at Central Women's University for building up confidence in ICT of the students of the university. Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp is a 3-day long camp for college to university second-year students to build up their computer programming skill. Starting on 1st June 2017, the camp ended on 3rd June 2017. There were a total number of 25 students of Central Women's University participating the camp. Starting from basic the program to function and the array was taught hands-on in the program. BdOSN's Programme Coordinator Mosaraf Hossain Tipu and Humaun Kabir coordinated the program. The Program ending with the certificate giving ceremony. Bangladesh Open Source Network's Programme Officer Sharmin Kabir was present on the certificate giving ceremony.

Mosaraf Hossain Tipu, Programme Coordinator, said - 'There are many girls who are actually interested in computer programming, but they didn't have anything to start with. They were very glad that the program was organized. It was very effective for them.'

Open House Day is an event under Girls In ICT where girls are taken to visit IT service company, software development company, call center, development etc to make girls more interested in ICT. There was a visit to Grameenphone House the leading mobile operator company in the Bangladesh on 5th April 2017.

30 girls Participated in the event. The participants learned how Grameenphone works and manage their work. They invited the participants to join Grameenphone when their study is complete.

Mahila Momtaz Islam a participant of Open House Day in Grameenphone said"I'm using the Grameen phone for a long time and didn't know all this work requires for an operator to run. It's really interesting"

Bangladesh Open Source Network joined International Girls In ICT Day with Women In Digial since 2015. Since then It is organizing many events to celebrate this day. Open House Day is a part of International Girls In ICT Day celebration. 27 Girl visited Grameenphone Rajshahi office on 14th May 2017.

Head of Marketing, Rajshahi Circle Sohel Mahmud welcome the students. Circle Business Head Touhid R. Talukder Sohel briefs on telecom market, future of telecom market, GP’s practices and prospects for students in ICT and telecom sector. From Technology team Kazi Ziaur Rahman shares the scopes and opportunities for the engineering students in telecom market. Head of P&O, Shahidul Hoque Milky gives necessary tips and advice to the students on how they can prepare themselves for their future career in ICT and telecom industry. MFS Head Mishu Ashraf gives a brief on MFS market and MFS products. Gratitude to all of GP Rajshahi circle Management for extending their support in such a great initiative.

The participants had a great day. They thanked Bangladesh Open Source Network for opening such a wonderful way to experience professionalism.

Since 2005, Raj IT Solution Limited is the largest IT farm of North Bengal and providing IT service all over the Bangladesh.

There was an Open House Day visit on Raj IT Solution Limited on 18th May 2017. Open House Day is a basically an office visit in order to get practical experience from professionals. Bangladesh Open Source Network organized it to celebrate International Girls In ICT Day. There was a total number of 55 girls participating the visit. The visit was mentored by Kanta Kaniz.

There is more event like Open House Day such as Bootcamp, Workshop, Roundtable Discussion and much more.

The International Girls in ICT in Bangladesh has been celebrated by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) with different initiatives and programs. The ICT Career Talk aims to motivate the young university students to come forward in the ICT Sectors and take the lead of the ICT world.

To achieve such, Rajshahi University hosted an ICT Career Talk at the Conference Room, Central University on April 29, 2017 at 10.00am to 13.00pm.

There were some very resourceful people in the session who shared their experiences with the audiences and motivated the girls to take ICT as a career.

Among many, there were Professor Md.  Khademul Islam Molla, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of ICT Center, University of Rajshahi who moderated the session and Munir Hasan, Coordinator, Youth Programme at Prothom Alo and General Secretary, Bangladesh Open Source Network – BdOSN as Keynote Speaker.

Both of them demonstrate a great passion in promoting ICT among the girls and women in Bangladesh. Apart from them, there were 4 speakers named Kaniz Fatema, Head of Data & Device, Rajshahi Circle, Grameenphone Limited, Mohammad Harun Or Rashid, Lecturer, Department of Humanities, RUET, Shaikh Jannatul Moushumy, Admin & HR Executive, raj IT Solutions Ltd and Nahida Parvin, Freelancer and Entrepreneur, Director, IT Solution Dinajpur.

A total number of 80 participants from RU, RUET, Rajshahi Government College and  Varendra Univeristy.

The participants were enthusiastic attending the session and they thanked to the organizing team for such a great initiative.

This year, BdOSN has been celebrating International Girls in ICT extensively in and outside Dhaka. In a row of 9 Career Talks, the 7^th Career Talk held in Comilla on 23^rd May 2017 at Bangladesh army International University of Science & Technology (BAIUST).

170 students from different departments including 85 girls attended the session. The session started at 3.00 pm at the University auditorium. The Career Talk was started with the Welcome Speech by Golam Moktadir Nayeem, Associate Professor & Head of CSE Dept. The honorable Chief guest Brig Gen Ilyas Iftekhar Rasul, ndc,psc (Retired), Vice Chancellor ofBangladesh army international University of Science & Technology, deliver his inspirational and Motivational Speech.

After their inspirational speeches, the session was conducted by two resourceful people. The Keynote Speaker of the session was Kazi Hassan Robin, Sr. Assistant Professor & Head
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, World University and Sazzad Hossain Khan,    Software Engineer in Btech Solution Private Ltd. & Bosundohara Group.

After ending the program, Golam Mokadir nayeem gives momento to the speakers and Kazi Hassan Robin reprsenting BdOSN gave crest to Golam Moktadir Nayeem, Head, dept of CSE for hosting the program.