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.