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The National Girls Programming Contest turns its curtain off on the 9th of May 2017 at Daffodil International University. This year also manifestoes a great success of BdOSN’s regular activities like #missingdaugher, Grace Hopper Girls Programming Training Camp, Girls in ICT events and many more in the participants’ number. A total number of 384 institutions took part in the online preliminary contest held on 7th March 2017 from where 117 team from 79 institutions were selected based on their performance.

Participants from different part of the country ranging from school to university including polytechnic institutions started their registration at 9.00am at the venue. 102 teams finally participated in the final contest.  48 members from 16 teams were given prizes in different categories. CUET_Diamonds & Rust from Chittagong Science and Technology University became the Champions in the contest while NSU_La La Land and CUET-Girls and Pearls owned the 1st and 2nd runner-up respectively in the competition. RRU School_Polaris got a special prize in the school category.

The closing program started at 3.30pm with the presence of the ICT Minister Mr. Junaid Ahmed Palak, MP,  Deputy Secretary Begum Mahbuba Panna of the Department of ICT, the geneticist and science writer Dr. Abed Choudhury, Dr. M. Kaykobad from BUET, the general secretary of BdOSN Munir Hasan, vice-president of the organization Lafifa Jamal and the vice-chancellor of Daffodil International University Professor Dr. Yousuf Mahbubul Islam.

The ICT minister shared that ‘the government of Bangladesh is leading to a digital Bangladesh by inchmeal. Like any other sectors, the women’s participation in the ICT will be equal by 2030.’ He welcomed the young participants to be ready to lead that future Bangladesh with the ICT knowledge.

Dr. Kaykobad said that ‘we have many talented and brilliant students in Bangladesh who have already proven their potential. They just need a platform to fly from now.’

The program had around 500 people in its closing session. Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) was the implementation partner of the program while Judging partner was CodeMarshal.

Even though Programming Contest is becoming a tradition but girls are not attending the contests. Bangladesh Open Source Network is organizing National Girls Programming Contest since  2015 to prevent the situation. The final phase of National Girl Programming Contest 2017 will be held on May 9, 2017 at Daffodil International University in Sobhanbagh, Dhaka on the initiative of Government Information and Communication Technology Department.

Bangladesh Open Source Network shared that the event will have 117 teams from 79 institutes. 117 teams out of 363 teams were selected from an online competition held on 7th Match,2017.

The list of the competitive participant will be available here  http://www.nhspc.org/2017/ngpc/final/. All the participant are requested to be present at Daffodil International University at 9 o'clock on 9th May 2017.  The competition will start in the morning and will end by noon and the price giving ceremony will be held in the auditorium on the afternoon.

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Junaid Ayyad Palak, MP will be present as the chief guest at the prize distribution ceremony at 3 pm.

The program will be judged by Online judging platform CodeMashall. 

Grace Hopper Girls Programming Traininh Camp has been achieving its success in every programs. After being held in more than 20 venues, Gracehopper Girls Programming Tarining Camp has been arranged in Gopalganj at Bangubandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sciene and Technology University (BSMRSTU) on 28th and 29th April 2017.

Students from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Satasiya school and Gopalganj Polytechnic Institute participated in the training camp. The students were very enthusiastic in their participation and actively enjoyed the session. 

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) has arranged this session in association with Computer Science and Engineering dept, BSMRSTU.

ITU celebrate International Girls in ICT Day on 4th Thursday of April and accordingly today is that gala day. The difference is we are celebrating girls in ICT for a month with different programme.

Today, to celebrate the day, we have organized a Girls Innovation Boot Camp from 9.30 am to 4:30 pm in the Conference Room of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), ICT Tower, Agargaon.

Mr. Mohammad Mahdee Uz Zaman, Director, Virtue Stream, USA and DELL EMC magically engaged the 52 participants came from different part o Bangladesh in the workshop. The participants were taught about some very basic skills of starting a business and it will gradually proceed with transforming an Idea into a Product.

The Girls Innovation Boot Camp earned its highest success in terms of participants' active interaction, learning and sharing. One of the participants came from Chittagong shared that, though she was a student of MBA, but attending the session did not make any difference for students with non-IT background.

These girls will be under a yearlong mentorship so they can continue their activities here.

The participants were handed over certificates at the end of the workshop in presence of General Secretary Mr. Munir Hasan, Abed Chaudhury, the Bangladeshi geneticist and science writer living in Australia, Mr. Ananya Raihan, CEO of Dnet and representatives from Bangladesh Computer Council and ICT Division.  

This workshop under International Girls in ICT has been organized by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN), Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), BWIT and BRAC IT Services Limited (BiTS) and co-organized by ASUS, Genex and JoomShaper. Chakri dot com is the career partner of the program.

Bangladesh Open source Network (BdOSN) started celebrating International Girls in ICT Day 2017 on 21^st April 2017.

Along with other programs to celebrate the occasion, ICT Open House Day (Seeing is Believing) is one of them that aims to help the women to be introduced with the ICT companies and organization.

On 25^th April, the first visit was at JoomShaper, one of the leading Software Companies. There were 8 visitors in total visited the place.

The Founder & CEO of JoomShaper Mr. Kawshar Ahmed explained how he started his company with the visitors. He also shared with the girls that he is currently looking for an experienced & skilled worker for his team and he shared the opportunity of women to work in such fields.

Mr. Rayhan the technical writer of JoomShaper gave  a brief about how to be technical writer & all the things.

There were participants from AIUB, BRAC University and national university. Jesira Sultana from AIUB shared her opinion quoting that the visit was very effective for her. She had seen the real environment of a software company that she dreams to build her career in. Umme Hanie Esha from National University was very excited sharing that ‘ I never have visited any IT company but being here today made me very motivational to build my career in the IT field.

Farhana Sharmin Tithi, the coordinator of the visit from BdOSN expects that the visit will have create an effect on the participants’ views and planning of an IT company. Arranging such future session could bring more girls in the ICT fields, she expects. 

On 22nd April RubyConf Bangladesh 2017 was arranged by Ruby Community Bangladesh at University Grant Commission Auditorium, Dhaka. Around 150 developers have participated in this conference. On this daylong program 10 tech talks was presented by expert rubyists. Nascenia & BdREN were gold sponsor of the conference & BDOSN assisted as partner.

Experts discussed about different frameworks of Ruby, especially Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is a popular full stack web application development framework, which allows us to launch a web application really fast. Popular products like airbnb.com, slideshare, Github are developed using Ruby on Rails. Biyeta.com, ishkul.com are one of few sites in Bangladesh that are built using this framework.

Judging from the eagerness & enthusiasm of the participants, undoubtedly Ruby on Rails is emerging as a popular framework in Bangladesh. The objective of the program was to develop network among Ruby community & to encourage new programmers.

In future, the organizer RubyBD wants to arrange the program at a larger scale.

International Telecommunication Union celebrates "International Girls In ICT Day" with it connected countries to motivate the girls and women about ICT and ICT career. Every year the day is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of April. But in Bangladesh, it is celebrated throughout the whole month spreading the range of ICT working areas in girls and young women. The celebration of International Girls in ICT Day kicks off this year with a seminar at Dinajpur Women's College, Dinajpur on 20th April 2017. The IT Solution Dinajpur was the organizing partner, and organized by Dinajpur Women's College Teacher Monurunjon. Ms. Nahida Parvin chief executive officer of IT Solution coordinated the seminar in  Dinajpur.

Bangladesh Open Source Network's program officer Sarmin Kabir Said "This year the celebration has been spreaded to Dinajpur, Rangpur, Chittagong, and Rajshahi. There will be Career talks on how girls can join in ICT, Roundtable meeting on how a large number  of girls can be interested in ICT, visiting ICT Companies, Quiz and Contest." "Besides some of eligible women will be placed in the internship" said Sharmin Kabir.

Noted that Bangladesh Women In Technology is the co-organizer of this celebration. Jenex, Zoomshaper, Binary Image and chakri dot com are patronizing the celebration this year.

To know more about it please visit http://girlsinict.bdosn.org/ . To organize on your own campus please email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The National Girls Programming Contest 2017 has started offcially today with the Online Preliminary Test here goo.gl/CEXO0G. In response to the online registration form circulated and accepted from March 16 to 31, we got 388 team from 73 universities from all over Bangladesh. 

After the primary selection, we selected 362 teams for the online test and given them the unique ID & Password. The selected 120 teams from this contest will be invited for the national contest designed to be held on the end of this month.

Besides, there will be 5 awareness raising workshop at 5 different universities in Bangladesh staring from 15th and will be continued till 25. 

The Information and Communication Technology Division has been arranging this contest for its 2nd time with the implementation partner Bangladesh Open Source Network and Academic Partner CodeMarshal.

The details can be found here: www.facebook.com.bdosn or http://www.nhspc.org/2017/ngpc/about/.

With a colorful and cheerful celebration, the National High School Programming Contest (NHSPC) 2017 has just turned its curtain down on 8^th April 2017 at Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh (KIB), Dhaka. A total number of 1200 winners from 16 regions and upozilas participated in the Gala event.

In the morning at 9 of the clock, the ICT State Minister Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak of the Information and Communication Technology Division of Bangladesh Government inaugurated the ceremony. There he motivated the young kids participants and shared that by 2021, with the prudent leadership of Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh will be a Digital Country where the present participants will have to lead it towards the global platform.

The programming contest held in two parts; one at IIT, Dhaka University with the senior students and another one is at Daffodil University, Dhaka with the junior participants. The programming quiz and question-answer session were conducted by Munir Hasan, the General Secretary of BdOSN and Lafifa Jamal, the Chairperson of Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Dhaka University.

The closing ceremony of NHSPC-2017 started at 4pm at KIB with the presence of Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister of the ICT Ministry as Chief Guest, Additional Secretary of the ministry Md. Harunur Rashid, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Sir from SUST and so on.

110 National Winners were awarded the prizes. They will be getting some residential training on Dhaka from where they will be choosing on their performance basis to perform at the International Informatics Olympiad to be held in Tehran, Iran.

This national competition was implemented by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) with the judging partner CodeMarshal. The relevant information is available at www.fb.com/nhspc and www.fb.com/groups/nhspc