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Since 2005, Raj IT Solution Limited is the largest IT farm of North Bengal and providing IT service all over the Bangladesh.

There was an Open House Day visit on Raj IT Solution Limited on 18th May 2017. Open House Day is a basically an office visit in order to get practical experience from professionals. Bangladesh Open Source Network organized it to celebrate International Girls In ICT Day. There was a total number of 55 girls participating the visit. The visit was mentored by Kanta Kaniz.

There is more event like Open House Day such as Bootcamp, Workshop, Roundtable Discussion and much more.

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.

This year, BdOSN has been celebrating International Girls in ICT extensively in and outside Dhaka. In a row of 9 Career Talks, the 7^th Career Talk held in Comilla on 23^rd May 2017 at Bangladesh army International University of Science & Technology (BAIUST).

170 students from different departments including 85 girls attended the session. The session started at 3.00 pm at the University auditorium. The Career Talk was started with the Welcome Speech by Golam Moktadir Nayeem, Associate Professor & Head of CSE Dept. The honorable Chief guest Brig Gen Ilyas Iftekhar Rasul, ndc,psc (Retired), Vice Chancellor ofBangladesh army international University of Science & Technology, deliver his inspirational and Motivational Speech.

After their inspirational speeches, the session was conducted by two resourceful people. The Keynote Speaker of the session was Kazi Hassan Robin, Sr. Assistant Professor & Head
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, World University and Sazzad Hossain Khan,    Software Engineer in Btech Solution Private Ltd. & Bosundohara Group.

After ending the program, Golam Mokadir nayeem gives momento to the speakers and Kazi Hassan Robin reprsenting BdOSN gave crest to Golam Moktadir Nayeem, Head, dept of CSE for hosting the program.

Bagdoom, one of the largest e-commences in Bangladesh hosted an Open House Day on 25th of May 2017.

BdOSN, as a part to celebrate International Girls in ICT has arranged 9 visits at different companies including BRAC, Grameen Phone, Genex and JoomShaper.

However, around 19 women from different universities visited Bagdoom today. The team Bagdoom accompanied the visitors to different departments and explained each of these activities and strategies.

Starting in 2002, today's FIFO Tech has gone through many ups and downs. Over a course of mistakes, experiences and learning, the company now has created a direct employment for more that 200.

The founder of FIFO Technologies, Mr. Towhid Hossain was describing his stories in such an inspirational way with the visitors of International Girls in ICT, organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN). 

Around 18 women from different universities went to the last visit of Open House Day for this year on 25th of May 2017Last . The participants became remarkably motivated and thanks to the both organizations for such opportunity.

The program officer of BdOSN Sharmin Kabir says, the journey of Open House Day was very experimental and a story of acocmplishment. We are grateful to the companies gave us the opportunity to visit and created a path to go forward with the vision of engaging our young girls in the ICT sectors.

As a part to celebrate International Girls in ICT, an intensive Career Talk was arranged on April 29, 2017 at RUET Auditorium, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology

A total number of 130 participants actively attended the seminar. The university students from Rajshahi University, RUET, Rajshahi Government College and Varendra University attended the event and squeezed the highest benefit from it.

A pool of relevant professionals presented as speakers and shared their valuable experiences with the audiences. The event was moderated by Professor Md.  Khademul Islam Molla, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of ICT Center, University of Rajshahi. Mr. Munir Hasan, Coordinator, Youth Programme at Prothom Alo, General Secretary, Bangladesh Open Source Network – BdOSN was present as Keynote Speaker & Chief Guest in the session. Kaniz Fatema, Head of Data & Device, Rajshahi Circle, Grameenphone Limited and Akhtar Zaman, Chief Executive, raj IT Solutions Ltd were present as speakers.

The 2.5 hour long Career Talk was fruitful enough to inspire the young participants to have an overall view in the ICT Career. The session was effective enough for mutual sharing and learning.

To celebrate the International Girls in ICT Day, a range of events and programs are being celebrated throughout the month. The program includes but not limited to school quiz contest, ICT Career Talks for girls, Open House Day Visit and online programming contest. 

After having school quiz contest in Dinajpur and Dhaka, the event recently covered Comilla on 23rd of May 2017. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has been organizing such events all over Bangladesh to make aware the students with the ICT sectors and inspire them to be in the fields. 

Around 120 students from 2 schools participated in the quiz contest. The ICT teacher of Forida Biddayaton Mr. A.K.M Akhtaruzzaman happily shared ' Our students must come forward from the bookish knowledge and know what is going on the world. ICT is one of the best media now to be up-to-date with the world. I personally give thank to BdOSN for this such a wonderful initiative for the school children.'

Sharmin Kabir, the Program Officer of BdOSN replied in a question that ' We are now organizing different types of programs keeping the students' demands and need in mind. We are getting a remarkable response from the students'.

The program coordinator Mr. Mosarraf Hossain Tipu handed over a crest from BdOSN to the Headmistress of the school. The quiz was closed by awarding the 10 best performers of the quiz. 

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has been celebrating Girls in ICT from the May 20th this year. Among the many other programs, Career Talk in ICT got a huge response from the participants.

The uniqueness of this year’s celebration is expanding the events and program outside Dhaka. Different sessions have been arranged in different areas including Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Chittagong and Rangpur.

However, around 60 female students and 12 faculties from different departments of the Daffodil International University joined this great session organized jointly by BdOSN and Daffodil International University on 22^nd of May 2017 at 2.30pm. The students spontaneously participated in the discussion and shared their thoughts with ICT Career and its prospectus.

The General Secretary of BdOSN Munir Hasan was the Keynote Speaker there and he magically involved the participants in his discussion by also providing t-shirt and book as gift. The Vice-Chancellor, Yousuf Mahbubul Islam also joined the session and inspired the participants to come forward with the ICT sector.

Ms. Bashira, one of the faculties of the CSE department shared that ‘organizing such event is very fruitful to bring our girls in the ICT sectors’. Mahbuba Munmun Mahua came from Mirpur to participate the event and she became highly motivated by listening to the speakers.

Since September 2015, BdOSN has been running several programmes to create awareness among the girls and women to take ICT as a career. The initial goal is to aware the girls and women about the different opportunities in the field of ICT and help them to acquire the required skills through training and workshop.

Some results have been achieved soon from those actions.  In 2015, when we start our initiative, there were only 5 girls teams participated in the ICPC Regional Programming Contest in Bangladesh although 25% of the students in 90 institute which offered ICT courses are female! After one year, in 2016 the number of team raise to 129!

International Girls in ICT Day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April. However, BdOSN celebrates this for a month.

In continuation of the effort, BdOSN has taken the following initiatives to celebrate International Girls in ICT.

The programme includes but not limited to

0 Awareness Building

0 Career Talk 

0 Innovation Boot Camp

0 Open House Day, etc

Open House Day is an event under Girls In ICT where girls are packed to visit IT service company, software development company, call center, development etc to make young women more interested in ICT. On 4th April 2017, we visited BRAC Net Limited. There were 12 girls and young women participating the event. Dr. Md Akramul Islam the director of BRAC Net limited was present there. He talked about the importance of ICT and how girls can do ICT jobs. There were a lot of female workers on BRAC Net. All the season was taken by those female workers.

Tahmina Kabir who participated the event said that "I'm not a student of any ICT related subject. Now I know even I can do a job in ICT sector. I really enjoyed here."