I tried to come up with some ICT project ideas which I would like to share with you. These ideas may not directly fall in the EEF category; however if any of my expatriate friend want o go back to Bangladesh to start a new venture or my old pals in Dhaka would like to start something different, they may like this list. This is not at all a complete list. I will try to add to it every now and then.
- Security monitoring and first response initiation over the internet.
- Online Math and Science Tutoring for High school students in US.
- Online trucking/goods shipping reservation facility for nationwide faster goods movement.
- Micro-credit for laptop purchases for every University admitted student in Bangladesh.
- RMG intranet for capacity and recourses sharing for maximizing throughput.
- Online auction of excess or minor rejected RMG products. (Govt. need liberalization)
- Consumer Pricing Interactive Information broadcasting system.
- Intranet for Universities and dedicated network for all students.
Consumer Pricing Interactive Information broadcasting system: The ultimate goal of this project is to have self sustaining free market price stability for consumer goods. This system will share instantaneous market valuation of major consumer good in major shopping zone throughout the country and thereby adjust the price fluctuation or price hike. In a very high level, the system will be integrated in the following architecture.
Each vendor will have a secure ID and product code. At any point of time during the business hour, the vendor will enter his asking price of a specific item. That information will store in a server and broadcasted to multiple billboards throughout the country to major market place like Sowary Ghat, Moluvi Bazzar, Chalk Bazzar, Kawran Bazzar, Gabtoli and likes. Now the vendor’s security ID may be his personal cell phone. Once he called to that specific server and entered his product code, the program will pick up the bid and broadcast it to the billboard as a cron job. Now if you paid careful attention you already figure out that any customer will be able to access that bid through their cell phone from that server. The transaction will happen as usual with the vendor and customer in the respected business site or over cell phone. You have the luxury to scale the system based on your investment or availability of funding. How you make money out of this? That is a trade secret. Be innovative or hire innovator.
Security monitoring and first response initiation over the internet: The availability of submarine cable enable us to video monitoring in real-time. Bangladesh can utilize the cheap labor to compete this field with countries around the world. Let us consider a case study. A specific business area/entity in Santa Clara, California USA, needs to monitor 24/7. There are 100 security cameras in the facilities. In the security control room there are 12 monitor screens each displaying 9 cameras per screen. Assume there are 2 security officers in the security control room, each responsible for 6 monitors. There are two security patrols in the field. If any suspicious activity takes place, then security officers in the control room dispatch massages to the patrolling guards.
In this case study, you can relocate the entire security control room Khulna, Bangladesh.
You may train and setup security monitoring cells. They will watch the facilities 24/7 and in any suspicious activity they will dispatch to the security patrols for immediate action. You can do it profitably in less than 25% of that operating cost of Santa Clara, California.
Once you have one customer happy and satisfied, you will get 20 more customers to be a mega security center and may further reduce the cost and enlighten your customer. In addition, companies that could not afford security center will be able to do it as the cost is down. Hence the market will get bigger.
I will continue to add more details on the remaining projects.
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