tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32850644355160705632012-02-12T07:06:54.234-08:00Share my thoughts mostly about Bangladesh and possibility of technology to uplift living standard of mass population. I believe technology has the potential to change life standard of every human being if it implemented right and conducted based on a transperent policy.Abu Abdullah sohelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497319724271635321noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3285064435516070563.post-86597333987070356982009-06-12T17:07:00.001-07:002009-06-12T17:07:58.429-07:00

Yesterday I picked a book from my bookshelf and read it to my 4 and 3 year old children as bed time stories. This one Bangla and the short story called “Didi O Picklo”. Very nice touchy story of pet dog named Picklo.I did not like the language and the tone of the story. It was poor, mean, and morally weak with stereotype. I don’t want to profile the writer; however there are events and things

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Out of approximately 300K applicant paid thousands of dollar as security deposit and willing to buy a piece of land for one’s own place which he/she will call home, not even 10% will get the product. You guessed right, yes, I am talking about RAJUK plots.The vast majority of the pursuant, more then 90%, will be rejected. Although they have the money and will; although they are ready to invest in

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Let’s face it, you never turn down a buyer; not especially during the global economic down turn that we are in right now. People who are in private sector, like export oriented garment industry knows how hard they try to keep the LC valid and deliver the product; however if you are in a bureaucratic non transparent organization than you don’t have any motivation to do that; because you job is

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Like the nation I am disturbed and deeply shocked by the BDR mutiny and aftermath. During the aftermath, we should use our decency and judgment while sharing the shocking images as well as spreading the vivid details of the brutality. We have to ask ourselves what we want by doing those acts.I have lost friends of my relatives; my heart goes out to those children who lost their parents, to those

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The Proposal: Mandate every state to have mandatory full service gas station like my own state Oregon.At least 4 new jobs per gas station. There should be a recovery gas tax and the new jobs will be funded by this gas tax by the owner. This proposal is a temporary plan and may mandate for next two years only. After two years, this could be extended to fund alternative energy initiatives to reduce

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http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:y_news:a6e612dc8aee93d08e28b9c63c4047e6I think Senate, House and White House need to think outside the box for a while. They should give a break to the current buzz word "Billion" for every bill addressing the economy. Why don't they talk about the "Confidence" and "Real Value" for a change?There has not been any catastrophe since 2007. I don't see any house

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Some of you may disagree and you have every right to do that. You may argue that Bangladesh is a poor country; people do not have the very basic of enough food, shelter. However I think the biggest catalyst for Bangladesh to infuse job creation and tap the enormous recourses of man power is energy. Energy should be the task one for the new government sworn in January 2009.Analyze Bangladesh’s

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Do you know that there were Bangladeshi engineers and scientists worked on the fastest processor on the planet developed by Intel Corporation called i7? There were at least 10-15 engineers of Bangladeshi origin worked in various development and production phases of i7. To set the perspective on how big of a task this was, I must say that it took almost 4 years from 2004 to today. Moreover, about

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Time flies, it is almost one year that I am writting this column in the monthly magazine CNEWS.My 2’cents on TV, DVR Ad:http://www.cnewsvoice.com/pdf/PISNO000000000000015/PISNODTL000000000424.pdfTo the kids of Today:http://www.cnewsvoice.com/pdf/PISNO000000000000014/PISNODTL000000000381.pdfIT startup projects to get your hands dirty:http://www.cnewsvoice.com/pdf/PISNO000000000000013/

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Theme:Bangladesh is enjoying the freedom of media as well as the competition, especially, in the television sector. A burden of responsibility comes along with the freedom. Although the country is going through the turmoil of “emergency rule and caretaker government”; however the continuity of popular TV channels may not feel any difference, except the flow of easy money to fund flashy shows. As

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This week, one of my colleagues is going to sabbatical. We took him to a restaurant of his choice for a sabbatical send away lunch. He chooses a restaurant called “Thailand Restaurant” in Beaverton, a small town near Portland, Oregon. Sabbatical is an 8 weeks paid vacation after seven years of service. The root of the word sabbatical came from Arabic number seven (Sabba); hence sabbatical.Our

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There has been a lot of talk and enthusiasm going on in Bangladesh now a day with respect to digital divide and technology adoption to uplift the standard of living. During last decade cell phone paved the path of technology adoption. More and more application is landing into the market to increase productivity and way of life.There were some major direction changes done by BTRC over the past

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Everyday technology redefining the way we do business. In fact technology in some cases dictate how we live, work and do things. I am delighted that BTRC is considering some financial transaction activity available through cell phone for licensing. This will enable business community to tap the new opportunity to increase productivity and ease of account payable. I foresee the outmost benefit for

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Suppose one of your friends Julia returns from a vacation and explains the place that she visited. Julia was telling you about the nature filled with snow covered mountain. The moment she tells you the snow covered mountain, you are picturing that scene in the back of your mind and it feels like you are seeing it; although you are wide wake and having a conversation with Julia. You may even feel

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The enlightening:Last week in a cubical of one of my collogue; I saw a stack of black garment reusable shopping bag. She asked me to have one and keep track of how many times I reuse that. I should report to my manager on how many times I reuse that bag and my manager will track it. This goes through the hierarchy of management at the Microprocessor design company in Portland Oregon where I work.

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I think the root cause of the food price hike around the world is the ongoing turbulence in crude oil price. It happened due to a chain of events. If we trace the events then we could link it to the war in Iraq. The ever increasing demand of fuels to support the growth in China and India is the other major factor.In one hand, the war constrained the supply and growth in China and India raised the

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In March 2007, a very bad news hit me when I learnt that my father might have a stomach cancer. It was that time of the year when a lot of news hit the media in Dhaka about abuse of formalin to preserve fishes and fruits. This abuse can cause various deadly diseases including stomach cancer. Tons of fishes has been disposed to underground or burnt.There have been no traces of cancer in my family

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Now that the IGW license auction is over and BTRC met and surplus our expectation handing over the licenses with in a very short time after the auction, it is time for BTRC to start the next project of bringing the benefit of Internet doorstep of concern citizens.I am pleased to see the public auctioning of International gateway licenses by BTRC. This is the first step toward opening up

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The authorities of the 24 Dhaka city schools have sold 36,532 forms against 7,479 seats available for admission to different classes in 2008 academic year. The 24 schools are divided into three groups — Group A, B and C — on the basis of their location and quality of education to some extent. The Group A schools are: Government Laboratory High School, Mirpur Government High School, Motijheel

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I would like to share some of my letters, essay, comments to the national printed daily news media.Broadband http://www.newagebd.com/2007/may/24/fb.htmlDream Team: http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/02/13/d702131107111.htmAn expatriate’s concern http://www.newagebd.com/2007/may/16/fb.htmlRice reserve: http://www.newagebd.com/2007/aug/20/fb.htmlRice Imports (a follow up): http://www.newagebd.com/

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19th January 2008Bangali community of Portland enjoyed a wonderful casual community event with Nobel laureate Dr Yunus at the PCC, Rock Creek of the Silicon Forest of USA.Portland American community of Bangali decent are proud to nurture there bangali heritage, culture and family values. Dr Yunus talked about his Grameen experience and touched on his recent book about social business. He is on a

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I am very glad to know that Dr Yunus opened up his schedule to meet Portland Bangali. He is in a book tour to promote his latest book. We thank him and his book publisher for giving us this opportunity.In his book, CREATING A WORLD WITHOUT POVERTY, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more

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The win in Iowa may have surprised many to the extend that is hard to digest. How come a corn country could phantom the need of a monsoon rain desperately need America now?The trident of democratic candidates reaching to the hearts and minds of the democrats are very competitive. The tiny edge is all that matters. Albeit the country needs a change in direction, need a fresh start in the economic

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It may sound like I am a dreamer without a sense of reality. Because what I am going to propose now may blow your mind away. Your response would be “are you nuts?”We have limited energy in USA. Think about the basic principle of energy. It changes forms and produce something that we want.We are a fat nation and see how much energy we are burning to burn calories from our body? Now if you can

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I would like to see a simple technology to integrate iPhone to TV. As always, Apple is the leader of the products that “wow” the customer by providing the “user experience”. Obviously we want more now and our expectations are thereby going up.I would like to see a TV with blue tooth and additional software capability in iPhone to list schedule and program my TV so that I could watch my clips from

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There has been a lot of talk and enthusiasm going on in Bangladesh now a day with respect to Equity Entrepreneurs Fund aka EEF to establish IT industries in Bangladesh.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

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Last week in a Washington Post Column, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett emphasize the need to streamline the H1-B visa processing and compared it with European Union’s recent endorsement of Blue Card. The Blue Card is designed to attract highly educated workers to work in EU. The link to the full column is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122101919.htmlThrough

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In the NBR conference 2007 the President of US-Bangladedh Advisory Council Sabbir Ahmed said, "At present there are 400,000 vacant posts for nurses in the US, and Bangladesh can export skilled human resources against those posts". I could not agree more. I believe that management and entrepreneurs in that sector should pay a serious attention to this matter.US-Bangladesh Advisory Council

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There are approximately 3000 lecturers in all the colleges around the country to teach ICT courses in 11th and 12th grade students. The ICT course is comparatively new member of the higher secondary education curriculum. It is often said that ICT is key for the country to close the gap of digital divide with the rest of the world.There are 68017 college teachers in Bangladesh according to the

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For every 100 university going students in the West Pakistan, Bangladesh (East Pakistan) had 247 university going students during the years of 1951-52. The West paid much more attention to their education and almost flipped the number within 14 years. During 1963-64, in the East we had only 9,984 students enrolled in Universities where as many as 14,425 students in the West Pakistan, which is 144

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Although the culturally Vietnam and Bangladesh are two different country; however they possess somewhat similar value system with respect to education, industrilization and economic development.Economy:According to CIA world fact book estimate Bangladesh has per capita GDP $2300 (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html) and growth rate 6.6% compare to Vietnam

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If you are a policy maker for the future direction of Bangladesh, you might want to look at the following five facts:Starting a tiny sales office during 1997, Intel Corporation becomes the biggest foreign direct investor with 1 Billion USD in Vietnam in 2006.Employee growth exploded from few sales and support to a staggering ~4000 heads of high paying skill jobs.Intel Corporation directly

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I would like to share my passionate thoughts regarding the broadband penetration in the country and how it could empower the fellow citizen including common people. In this first essay I would like to introduce the “vision” in a simple language. I would like to expand the vision though my next two essays to elaborate the prospective. These essays are geared towards the policy makers and stake

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In one of my early posting, I was expressing my joy, congratulating any University student in Bangladesh. By simple math each of them is “one in a hundred”. We have 44 lac 1st graders enrolled in 2005 and about 50 thousand 1st year students around the country based on BANBEIS http://www.banbeis.gov.bd/ statistics. So every University going student made the biggest hurdle, he secured a place in

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The moment a student walks into the University to study, the university opens up the doors of unlimited study materials. He goes to his area of specialization and starts building his knowledge growth on that area and the lecturer guides him along the way. Can we give the student more? How about bringing the internet to him? How about ensuring that his access to the internet is guaranteed? What

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I investigated the feasibility of getting classmate PC customized with a built-in camera and a biometric ID detection device snapped into the keyboard. These are very simple addition to the system configuration and platform designer can easily do it. However it may require 12-18 months of design-validation-testing-production-delivery cycle. Moreover for a big company to develop this would

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Human capital, a common asset among China India and Bangladesh, how can we turn this asset into revenue generation machine? A friend of mine brings my attention to a Silicon India Article “Free broadband within 2 yrs”. The report writes that. “The Indian government plans to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed connectivity by 2009, through the state owned telecom service providers BSNL

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I go to my polling station during the Election Day, tell my name and address to the polling agent, he verifies that with the voter list. Then I cast my vote. I exercise my fundamental right of a citizen, done. What are all these fuzz about it? Ok I get it. Somebody intentionally compromise the voter list and now it does not have my name and address; however it has the names of “Tom, Dick and

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April 22, 2007 Election commission (EC) requested the government to allocate Tk 450 crore in the next budget for its projects to prepare a voter list and national identity cards. The request was made when Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda and Election Commissioners Sohul Hossain and Brig Gen (retd) Sakhawat Hossain met Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed at his office on that day.CEC

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