In the age of information technology, cybercrime is a major issues worldwide! And the main victims of this incident are the female citizens. The main reason for this is the lack of knowledge, basic competencies on technology and shortage of awareness about the uses and abuses of social media of women. Tech Back the Tech, a cyber-security awareness program, is organized worldwide to address women against this crime. When it comes to cybercrime, Bangladesh is not far behind other countries, where the rate of cybercrime is increasing day by day. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) runs this program in Bangladesh to raise awareness among our female populations.
A clear concept about the working trend and the status of the job field, before the completion of education makes it easier to survive in the current and future competitive job market. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) organized a career talk and a job exposure visit with women on 5th February to prepare women for the time and to give a proper guidance.
The girls of Bangladesh are contributing to the creation of new business markets with their innovative ideas through the best use and application of information and communication technology. This is making the workplace of Bangladesh as masculinity compatible in achieving the Blue Print Agenda 2030 of sustainable development Goals of the world.
Empowerment of women in the workplace is not possible without access to information technology skills. Currently, women need to be trained in information technology to ensure women's participation in the job market. Programming camps, ICT camps and career talk were organized at City University under the initiative of Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) to prepare the women for future job market. About 135 students of the university participated in these three-day events. The program, which began on January 25 with a programming camp and ended on January 27.
We entered into a new decade where everything is going to be computerized. Upcoming 10 to 15 years will be a robot control era. To control this robot, we need to gain more and more problem-solving capability and have to increase our critical thinking ability. By thinking about all of this problem, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) and Hamdard University of Bangladesh (HUB) jointly organized a Career Talk to give an idea to the students about the upcoming challenging world on Saturday, 11 January, 2020. In this talk a total 35 female undergraduate students were present there.
A career talk was held on Saturday, 11 January, 2020 at Bangladesh Army International University of Science and Technology (BAIUST). It was jointly organized by BAIUST & Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN) on The National Computer Festival of BAIUST.
The very first ever Ada Lovelace Celebration, organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), ended yesterday, 3rd January in Dhaka. Hosted by the University of Asia Pacific the Celebration was organized under the theme “Celebrating Digital Bangladesh with Women in Technology”. The festival was inaugurated on January 2 by Tagore Song "Ekla Chalo Re" and the recitation of the poem "Nari" of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam to encourage our female to lead their way.
A seminar titled ‘Designing Technologies for Social Good’ taken place today on 15 December,2019 at Dipanpur, located on Elephant Road, Dhaka. Sharifa Sultana Ela, PhD student, Information Science, Cornell University in the USA, conducted the seminar which was organized as a pre-event of Ada Lovelace Celebration by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BDOSN).
A career talk was held on 27 November, 2019 at the Banquet Hall of Daffodil International University with a view to thinking about young people's future careers and the opportunities and scope of the female students in ICT and Non ICT sector where they can explore their potential. It was jointly organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and Daffodil International University where 60 female participants from different departments of this university jointed together to attend to this event.
Ada Lovelace Celebration is set to be held on January 2 and 3, 2020, with the aim of connecting all the tech-women of the country in a same platform under the initiative of the Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN). At the birthday of Ada Lovelace, the promoter of computer programming, Ada Lovelace Celebration was inaugurated on December 10, 2019 at the BdOSN office in Dhaka.