[DDN] Bangladesh goes slow in training ICT professionals
Bangladesh goes slow in training ICT professionals http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/102639/1/ With much fanfare, the national ICT internship programme was launched under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in April last year. But since then not a single graduate has been trained through this programme. The three-year internship programme, to be operationalised by the Ministry of Science and Information Communication Technology, aims to the capacity building of ICT professionals and development of the software industry. Despite having budgetary allocation, the ICT programme has failed to take off as the Finance Ministry is yet to disburse the required Tk 2.5 crore to run the project. As a result, thousands of ICT students graduating every year from the eight government and 52 private universities are facing difficulties in finding jobs because of lack of experience. Both the Bangladesh Computer Council and the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Service (BASIS), the representative organisations for the government and the software companies respectively, have already expresses their concern over the situation. Jahidul Hasan Mitul, an official of BASIS has said, If the funds were disbursed in time, at least 500 interns could gain real experience in IT field in the last six months”. Source: The Daily Star. -- Atanu Garai ICT Advocacy Officer OneWorld South Asia C 5, Qutab Institutional Area New Delhi 110016 India. Phone: 0091-11-51689000,09 Fax: 0091-11-51689001 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
[DDN] radio and blogs
Tapped from the creative radio list, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/creative-radio/ Vickram Crishna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some attention to the possibilities of widening the possibilities for keeping the flow of information moving collaboratively in times of stress, both literally and figuratively, happened in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Information from journalists in Sri Lanka and several other badly hit places was channeled to DesiMediaBitch, an open group of reporters on a blog. In its new found avatar as Chien(ne)s Sans Frontieres, the blog served to get reports raw from some of the worst mangled areas, sent out by SMS and ham radio from areas where mainstream journalists had not, and in some cases could not have, been. A few weeks later, and a different kind of tragedy has affected the concept of free and open communications, as a curtain of silence has fallen across the northern borders of the South Asian subcontinent. The possibility of relaying information out from behind the Nepal border by keyed transmission is being held open, as an informal network of ham operators attempt to organise relay listening across the amateur frequencies, in the hope that the voices of freedom denied may be heard once again. Obviously, the risk to amateur operators in Nepal is high, and the possible penalties dire, and C*S*F* hopes that their efforts may not be in vain, as the converging networks of hams and bloggers synergise. -- Vickram ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
