Three years ago I was thinking about the way to populate computing in mass population of Bangladesh. And I got a theory. Of course that was hypothetical but I think it can be done now. This is the right time.

My Theory:

To populate computing in mass population the bridge will be political leaders. Currently all major political parties have their own office on every Upo Zilla (Sub District) and those office is always surrounded by people. If those office will have computer and internet connection that’ll be vast way to populate the technology.

How?

If political parties make their end level access with a web solution my theory will be effected immediately. A computer with mobile broadband costs 300$ USD now in Bangladesh. Party office at Upo Zilla can afford it with local fund. Monthly 10$ USD is internet price and that also affordable.

For example Mr. Rahim a worker for a party wants to give a message to chairman of that party from Kurigram. Then the web solution will give him access to convey the message. But those message will not deliver directly to the Chairman. Hierarchic  member will moderate that and if the issue is deliverable it’ll be accelerated to the next level. In this way all party member will tuned up.

Again if the party chairman wish to take a decision from the party members he/she will post a quick poll on that issue and all the party member can participate on that.

I am proposing an enterprise architecture for that party. Why?

Because we’re chasing the slogan “Digital Bangladesh” now. For this great vision for the country all party should be digitalized first.

Positive Points:

Due to mass coverage of cell phone companies internet access and mobile telephony access is vast in Bangladesh. So in other word infrastructure is ready to transmit small amount of data which is more than enough. And Bangladesh has BDIX (Bangladesh Internet Exchange) which is the manger of local traffic path into local stream. So for the local content no need to access the internet. I am telling this because whole country is depending on a single submarine cable. In any point if the cable cut down whole country’s internet is blank. To fight this issue we have to develop our local contents. Solution for the political parties will be the local services. The broad intranet services in real.

Digital Bangladesh:

If we want a real Digital Bangladesh we need to establish high speed intranet to encourage e-governance. This will add values for the data so the people of Bangladesh will care for data services. In this way local data and contents will be more popular. Again for the international communication we need at least another submarine internet connection for this country.

Thinking Digitally:

Still we aren’t thinking digitally in Bangladesh. Most of the transaction, office systems, government organizations are running with traditional system. A fully automated system is required. Otherwise our way of thinking will remain the same.

Cornea 2009 Total and the Longest full solar eclipse. Captured from Rangalirbash village of Nageshwari Upozilla at Kurigram District, Bangladesh. Rangalirbash is my own village.

On the begenning of forming the Diamond Ring 2009.

Beginning of Diamon Ring, Phase two. 2009

Begenning of teh solar eclipse: Cloud and Blue Sky, Captured from my village.

During the Solar Eclipse 2009 from my village.

Right before the Full Eclipse 2009.

This clouds I captured from the village Nowdabash of Fulbari Upozilla of Kurigram Distrcit, Bangladesh. This is my Grand Mother’s (Mother) village.

There is a confusion exist: What is the highest peak in Bangladesh. Where Keokaradang is said to be highest (upon WikiPedia). Few months back some young expeditors found more than this by GPS. After their findings highest peak is SAKA HAPHONG with 3488 feet of height. Here is the latest news:

A two-month expedition of Nature Adventure Club and North Alpine Club Bangladesh begins today.
The clubs will start the expedition in at least 25 hills and lakes of Bandarban and Rangamati measuring at least 3,000 feet in heights.
The clubs have already formed a team consisting 10 members.
The team members are

• Wadud Mohsin Rubel
• Musa Ibrahim
• Sazzad Hossain
• Nurul Riyad Han
• Shashanka Saha
• Arman Khan
• Sakib Ahmed
• Mohammad Rafeh Uddin Siraji
• Touhid Hossain
• Debabrata Das Limon.

The team will measure the actual heights of the hills by global positioning system (GPS) device and altimeter and will set up nameplates in the hills.
The clubs will create a list of the peaks according to the information they have been gathering since 1990.
The expedition will end in October this year
for details news
http://www.thedailystar.net/pf_story.php?nid=51196
for nature adventure clubs Group news
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=tn#/group.php?gid=9173409002

I’ve taken these photos from 2006-2008.

Bangladesh again in Real Online from the last disaster (see my previous post). Happy Browsing now.

আমি ইদানিং একটা বিষয় নতুন করে আবিষ্কার করলাম। আমরা যখন আড্ডা দেই, তার প্রধান বিষয় থাকে সচালোচনা করা। এবং বলাই বাহুল্য যে তা অন্যের বা কোন বিষয়ভিত্তিক দোষের সমালোচনা।

খুবই ভালো বিষয় সন্দেহ নেই অন্তত আড্ডা দেয়ার জন্য। কিন্তু অবাক লাগে যাদের বা যে বিষয়ের দোষ নিয়ে কথা বলা হয়, তার কি কোন ভালো দিক নেই? অথচ যেকোন ভালো খবর বা মুভমেন্ট অনেক বেশী মানসিক সাপোর্ট দেয় আমাকে। আমার ধারনা সবাইকে দেয়। তাহলে করি না কেন?

আজকে একটা সংবাদ পড়লাম বিডি নিউজে “বাংলাদেশের জন্য কিছু করতে চাই: নোরা“। এটা জুনিয়র মিস এমেরিকা নোরা’র দেশে নেমে প্রথম কথা মিডিয়ার সাথে। খুবই ভালো লাগল আমার। অনেক পজিটিভ কথা। একজন বাংলাদেশী হিসেবে আমার অনেক ভালো লাগল কারনঃ

১. তার এই সাফল্যে বাংলাদেশের নামটা আর একবার সবার কানে গেল (বিশ্বের)।

২. মিডিয়ার মাতামাতি যেহেতু আমেরিকায় একটু বেশী, তাই আশা করছি নোরা যতদিন থাকবেন বার বার মানুষ বাংলাদেশকে মনে করবেন (মিডিয়ার)।

হঠাৎ মাথায় একটা আইডিয়া এলো: এমন কোন একটা নিউজ পেপার শুরু করা যায় না, যার প্রথম পাতায় থাকবে শুধু পজিটিভ সংবাদ। আর অন্যান্য সংবাদ থাকবে ভিতরের পাতায়। আমার মনে হয় পজিটিভ চিন্তার অনুশীলনের সময় এসেছে। আমরা যে অনেক ভালো কাজ করি, এটা আমরা ভুলে যাই সব সময়।