যুক্তরাষ্ট্র দূতাবাস আমেরিকান সেন্টার 'গ্লোবাল ইউগ্র্যাড এক্সচেঞ্জ প্রোগ্রাম ২০২১-২০২২’ এর ঘোষণা দিয়েছে। এক সেমিস্টার মেয়াদী স্নাতকপূর্ব এই ডিগ্রিবিহীন বিনিময় কার্যক্রমটি যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের ডিপার্টমেন্ট অফ স্টেট’র ব্যুরো অফ এডুকেশনাল অ্যান্ড কালচারাল অ্যাফেয়ার্স-এর পৃষ্ঠপোষকতায় পরিচালিত হবে।
Ada Lovelace Celebration is a movement initiated by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) to engage a large pool of female students of different universities of the country in the world of computing. Before kicking off this festival, an online career talk under this festival held on 24th December 2020 as the pre event of this celebration. The main objective of this event was to lead our girls in the tech based career with required skillset to fight in the future global job market.
১৬ বছর বয়স পর্যন্ত বিজ্ঞান শিক্ষাকে বাধ্যতামূলক করে সরকার কারিকুলাম সংশোধনের পরিকল্পনা করছে বলে জানিয়েছেন শিক্ষা উপমন্ত্রী মুহিবুল হাসান চৌধুরী। পাশাপাশি নতুন কারিকুলামে স্টেম (সায়েন্স, টেকনোলজি, ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিং এন্ড ম্যাথমেটিক্স) শিক্ষা অন্তর্ভুক্ত করার চেষ্টা করবে বলে জানিয়েছেন শিক্ষা উপমন্ত্রী। এতদিনেও স্টেম শিক্ষাবান্ধব কর্মক্ষেত্র তৈরির অক্ষমতার জন্য হতাশাও জানান তিনি।
The fifth episode of 16 days activism by ‘Take Back the Tech Bangladesh’ was organized on December 3, 2020 and the discussed topic of the program was ‘Cyber harassments and the psychology of cyber criminals’. The guest of the program was Dr. Mekhla Sarkar, Associate Professor, National Institute of Mental Health and the program was hosted by Mahbuba Sultana, Coordinator, Take Back The Tech Bangladesh.
In few decades, programming language is getting popular among tech enthusiast people. With time, coding is becoming more developed with latest programming language. To build a skilled youth community on coding, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and City University organized a weeklong programming camp and programming contest from 28th December to 3rd December 2020.
Take Back the Tech has organized a 16 days long program to highlight the occurring violence against women and to discuss the prevention of those acts of violence. As a part of the program, the third episode went air on December 1st, 2020. This episode mainly focused on the Bangladeshi law regarding cybercrime and implementation opportunities of law to make the women aware of the legal laws and actions that a woman can take if she faces any kind of online harassment or violence. The guest of the session was Jobayda Yousuf Mim, Head of Legal Affairs, youth empowerment facilitations- YEF Global and the program was hosted by Mahbuba Sultana, Coordinator, Take back the Tech Bangladesh.
A 16 days activism has been organized by ‘Take Back the Tech Bangladesh’ to highlight the and prevent violence against women. On November 29th, 2020, a session on ‘Behavior in online to prevent the cybercrime’ as a part of the activism, where the importance of awareness to prevent online harassment and violence was discussed briefly. The guest for the session was Ms. Tawhida Jahan Assistant Professor & Chairperson Department of Communication Disorders Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Dhaka and the session was hosted by Ms. Mahbuba Sultana Coordinator, Take Back The Tech Bangladesh.
In the competitive global job market, a young person do not have enough time to set a career goal after completing their graduation. In order to assess potential career options and to discover which career will align with them according to their interests and skills, definitely they need to think about it from their early stage of study. They need to face some practical experiences with extracurricular activities, part time duties, and internships and so on. From this concept, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organize a hands on job preparation workshop on 26th November 2020.
The first activity of Take Back The tech this year 2020 has started from Central Women’s University on 23rd January. The program was organized with the participation of about 70 female students of the university. The program focused on the cyber risks of female students and various aspects of remedies.
After completing the first successful event in 2020, we were thinking of organizing some more events like that. But before arranging the rest, a severe pandemic situation started all over the world. For which all the institutions & organizations closed to avoid public gathering and to obey the rules about maintaining social distance.
When all the people started to depend on online for keeping themselves updated about all the news of the world, the problems of the cyber world got increased. That’s why, we started to circulate information about cyber safety through live sessions on social media.
The first session of 16 days activity on “prevent violence against women” was held on November 27th, 2020 with the title “Online Harassment and Techniques to be Secured in Online”. The guest for the session was Mr. Sayed Nasirullah, Senior Assistant Commissioner, Cyber Security and Crime Division, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit, Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the session was hosted by Ms. Mahbuba Sultana Coordinator, Take Back The Tech Bangladesh. The focus point of this session was to create and increase awareness to prevent online harassment and violence.