The combo of information, communication and technology have brought the whole world to our fingerprints. In the modern era of technology, economic empowerment is not a big deal for a lady only if she has the spirit and determination. In recent age, a career in content writing comes with endless opportunities as it requires only excellent writing skills. There is no need to have a specialized degree or course in the field of Content Writing. Anyone can build her career in this sector with limitless potentiality. To explore the opportunities and to encourage our women in this sector Bangladesh Open Source Network organized a workshop on Career Opportunities in Content Writing on 23 June 2020.

This session was designed to explore the opportunities in the world of content writing. The main objective of this session was to increase the interest of our girls in a content writing career and to provide a roadmap to start their career in this vast world of content writing. Around 80 students from different corners and universities of our country where 45 participants were female students.

This session was facilitated by a successful freelancing content writer Ajanta Rizwana Mirza who won the BASIS Outsourcing Award in the Female category from BASIS in 2015, the Freelancer's Meet Award in the same year as the Female Outsourcing Professional and the Best Freelancer from the Freelancer Conference organized by the Bangladesh ICT Division.

Throughout the workshop, she answers a variety of questions from participants and discusses some of the things one needs to focus on to build a career as a content writer. In light of her own experience, she also talked about the job opportunities of content writers in the freelancing world.

Ajanta said, “There is massive scope for content writers in freelancing world. Every single blog, article, post, journal, business portfolio, reviews, course design, even advertisement, etc. are offering now a great opportunity to make money in this world. You have to just start and deliver your best with patience. It will be not so easy in early-stage to survive, but once you make your space in a freelancing market place it will satisfy you with a great benefit”.

She suggested the participants read plenty of relevant blogs or articles before start writing. She said, there is no alternatives of reading a lot to produce an excellent write-up. She added that reading will make you fluent in writing skills.

It is mentioned that this workshop was organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network to increase the participation of girls under the ESDGFBD project and to discuss open opportunities for them.