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 10th 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.
২৫টি জেলার পাবলিক লাইব্রেরিতে শুরু হচ্ছে স্কুল শিক্ষার্থীদের প্রোগ্রামিং শেখানোর আয়োজন। রাসবেরি পাই নির্ভর সাশ্রীয় মূল্যের বিশেষ কম্পিউটার কানো ও মাইক্রোবিট ব্যবহার করে এই প্রোগ্রামিং শিক্ষা কার্যক্রম পরিচালিত হবে। বাংলাদেশ সংস্কৃতি মন্ত্রণালয়ের একটি প্রকল্পের আওতায় ব্রিটশ কাউন্সিলের এই কার্যক্রম পরিচালনায় একাডেমিক সহযোগতিা প্রদান করবে বাংলাদেশ ওপেন সোর্স নেটওয়ার্ক (বিডিওএসএন)। ২০ সেপ্টেম্বর বৃহস্পতিবার ঢাকার বিশ্বসাহিত্য কেন্দ্রে এই বিষয়ে ব্রিটিশ কাউন্সিল বাংলাদেশ এবং বিডিওএসএনের মধ্যে একটি সমঝোতা স্বারক স্বাক্ষর হয়েছে। ব্রিটিশ কাউন্সিল বাংলাদেশের ডেপুটি ডিরেক্টর এন্দ্রু নিউটন এবং বিডিওএসএনের সহসভাপতি ড. লাফিফা জামাল নিজ নিজ প্রতিষ্ঠানের পক্ষে সমঝোতা স্বারকে স্বাক্ষর করেন।
A programming workshop is organized daylong on Tuesday, September 4 at Munshiganj Public Library.
The coding workshop was the first of many to be organised by Libraries Unlimited, a BMGF funded project delivered by the British Council in partnership with the Bangladesh Ministry of Cultural Affairs that aims to modernize the libraries of Bangladesh and improve public access to information and knowledge – a key part of which involves the introduction of coding educational resources in public libraries.
Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) conducted 1 month long basic scratch programming for high school students. The purpose was teaching a hands-on activity on how to create basic scratch program. 12 students from different schools in Dhaka took this course. Starting from April, the course ended yesterday successfully. The general secretary of BdOSN Mr. Munir Hasan was present at the closing ceremony.
Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) arranged a session titled “NLP for better Communication” to develop communication skills of its mentors and volunteers on 20 February 2018 at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro. The fruitful session was conducted by Roseline Sarkar who is a NLP and Business coach and member of Toastmasters International. The volunteers and mentors participated in the session and onsite experiments to practice NLP. The speaker of the session emphasized on learning things smartly, design positive thinking, communicating in a systematic way, controlling thoughts and activities improve their skills. The participants joined in a question and answer session for more clarification. Muntasher Morshed and Sadia Rahman, two volunteers of the organization, participated in two several experience sharing session regarding NLP and shared their experience and respective information.