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The 10 days long 'Girls in ICT " activities in Bangladesh stsrted with open house day and online programming contest. On 21st April girls visited Bording Vista, a offshore software house in Uttara Dhaka and on 23rd April some other girls visited UY System at Mohakhali. In both the locatins, the participants learn the various scope in the respective companies and they have been answered with their questions. Md.Shariful Islam, Team Leader, Retail and Toll Group and  Mr Palle Bo Hansen facilitated the visit while Ms Farhana A Rahman , Dr Sultana and Ms Eti helped the participants to fullfiled their queries. Ms Kaniz Fatem, Mr All Rabbi and Mr Mosarof hossain coordinate on behalf of the organizars. In this week more participants will visit Digicon Technologies, Grameen Phone, Samsung RDI, Bosundhara P1, Graphic people, D-net, Microsoft Bangladesh Ltd, Brac IT Services and windmill infotech limited.

On 21st April more than 200 girls participated in an online programing contest. They were challnges with five problems to solve within three hours. The top 10 perfermers will be awarded prize at the closing ceremony of girls in ict programme. 

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) and Bangladesh Women in IT (BWIT) are jointly organized different progammes in different cities of the country to celebrate the ITU's International Girls in ICT Day.

Bangladesh Open Source network (BdOSN) and Bangladesh Women in IT (BWIT) will celebrate the international Girls in ICT day with a handful programme. ITU is celebrating the 4th Thursday of April as "International Girls in ICT Day". This year the day will be observed on 28th of April. However, because of the resource constrain and to reach more girls, BdOSN and BWIT will organize programme from 20^th April to 30^th April 2016.

The programme included –

• Workshops on web and mobile technology for the girls
• Technology Career fair for the girls and young women (30th April, 2016 at University of Asia pacific Premises)
• Opportunity and Challenges in ICT for the girls and women awareness programme in different education institute including high schools and universities
• . ICT Open house day in different ICT Companies included Microsoft Bangladesh, Grameen Phone, UYSYS, Dnet, Samsung R&D Centre, Bank etc.
• A get-to-gather with icon ladies with the students, etc. (At UAP premises on 30th April)

The awareness seminar and hands on activities will be held in Dhaka, Chittagong, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Khulna district.

Any girl, female university student or young women can join any particular programme by registering herself in the appropriate form.

The details of the different programme and method of registration is available at event website http://girlsinict.bdosn.org/

The corresponsing facebook event is also be contacted for further information. 

Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) organize a workshop on Basic Crypography Tools. The hands on activity titled "CryptoParty: Learn and Teach Basic Cryptography Tools." will be held on 4th April, Monday at 5.00 pm. The venue of the workshop is the computer lab of Institute of Information Technology, Dhaka University. 

A CryptoParty is free, public and fun event. It is an open format where everyone is welcome independent of their age, gender or knowledge. People bring their computers, mobile devices, and a willingness to learn! CryptoParty is a decentralized, global initiative to introduce the most basic cryptography software and the fundamental concepts of their operation to the general public, such as the Tor anonymity network, public key encryption (PGP/GPG), and OTR (Off The Record messaging).

George Kargiotakis, Systems and Service Engineer of GRNET, Greece will conduct the party while Dr B M Mainul Islam of IIT, DU will coordinate the event.  Participation in this event is by invitation only.

   

A day long workshop to help the kids programmer for the preparion of NHSPC Chittagong region held in Chittagong University Campus on 11th March, 2016. 60 enthusiastic students participated in the workshop and learn different problem solving technique and the basics of programming contest. The workshops also covered the different aspects of programming.

A 8 days long programming crash course was held in Chittagong from 1st March to 8th March. The course covered the issues of C/C++, data structure, discrete math, basic algorithm and problem solving technique.  Chittagong Junior Coder in association with BdOSN organized the coding crash course.

The course facilitated by Towfiqul Islam, Fohadullah Mezbah, Rashid Al Shafee and Arif Haider. Students also learn how to participate in a online contest.

As part of its celebrating Programmig 2016 activities, BdOSN in association with different organization arranges workshop, course and training programme in different areas of the country.

Photos of the event are avaialble here.

Learn, practice and learn - is the most imporatnt tools to be a programmer. To be a good programmer one needs to study a lot as well as write a good number of programme by oneself. This was revealed in a Programming Adda at the capital's Rajuk Uttara Model College held on 5th March Saturday.

Mr Hammad Ali, teacher of BRAC university and Mr Tahmid rafi, CEO of Dimik Computing school address in the occassion. There are around 400 students participated in the adda and asked different questions to the panelist.

Later students are informed about the National High School Programming Contest 2016 and requested to join the show on 11th March at Dhaka University.

Workshop on computer programming was held on 28th February, 2016 in the CSE Lab of Daffodil International University Dhaka. Around 20 students participated in this day long workshop and learn some basic technique for doing better programme.Most of the participants are university students while few are from high school.

The topics covered in the workshops includes but not limited to basic Number theory and Recursion, Dynamic Programming and Binary Search.  basic data structures etc. 

Mr Tarif Ezaz, Coach of NorthSouth University Programming and Mr labbib Rashid from the same university conducted the workshop while Mossarrof Hossain provided the logistics support.

Mr Munir Hasan, General Secretary of BdOSN spend some times with the participants.

As part of its Programming 2016 celebration, BdOSN organized the first workshop of a series of workshops.

Programmer Jhankar Mahmud said that not only hardworking but also understanding and acquiring the necessary skills are equally important for a programming career. While talking in a Programming Adda by BdOSN, the US based programmer asked the newbie's to devote themselves to know the basics first. He said that solid foundation is very essential for any language. However, he assures that it is not absolutely necessary to have a CS degree to become a programmer.

As part of the celebration "Programming 2016" BdOSN arranged this seminar on 26th February, Friday at Bisso Sahitto kendra, Dhaka. More than 100 enthusiastic students and fresh graduates listen to him.

Mr Mahbub recenly wrote a book on programming titled "হাবলুদের জন্য প্রোগ্রামিং" (Programming for dummies) and answered different questions after his presentation.

Mr Promi Naheed, Treasurer of BdOSN welcome the audience in the programme.

The programme was sponsored by FM plastic.

The power of information is enormous and it empowers people to do good. Dr Ashir Ahmed, Associate Professor of Kiyosu University of japan, explains in details how power of information changes the life of a small village in Bangladesh. He was talking at the BdOSN Talks-3 in Bisso Sahitto Kendra on 25th February, 2016. BdOSN organized the talk with the support from Priyo dot com and ET Calling.

Dr Ahmed explain how accessing news papers changes the though pattern and their dreams of a village people. He explain how that also created opportunities of employment as well. Dr Ahmed talks about his various project and said that one can achieve his goal if he is consistent and hard working.

A detail summery of the talks is available here.