Despite growing domestic demands, assembled and manufactured smartphones are expected to become cheaper this year, thanks to increasing investments by local and foreign companies to set up plants to manufacture smartphone in the country and a duty structure designed by the government to discourage imports. Approximately, 75 lakh units of smartphones
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21ST CENTURY SKILLS FOR UNIVERSITY GRADUATES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
In the era of fourth industrial revolution, universities - across the globe - are becoming more concerned with employability and offering life skills/soft skills that employers value much. Accordingly, they are designing education systems around the norms of the industrial society. Today’s educators think that future needs to be more
SOCIAL MEDIA: A NEW HORIZON IN E-LEARNING
Social media tools (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and others) have created enormous interest among educators to use it as an agent of change in teaching and learning practice because of its openness, interactivity, and sociability. As net generation students highly rely on social media for information and collaboration, educators are
CYBER RISK: AWARENESS AND MANAGEMENT
There is an acute shortage of IT Security specialists that can be engaged to fend of cyber threats. Increasing digitization and the proliferation of interconnected devices have resulted in greater avenues for cyber-criminals, but until recently, educational& training institutions have not expanded capacity quickly enough to keep pace with demand
THE RISE OF JOBLESSNESS AMONG THE YOUTHS IN BANGLADESH
Mismatch between the graduates’ skills and the job-market demands is a huge concern in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution It’s been a good initiative that the new finance minister proposed to allocate TK 100 crore in the budget 2019-20 for the training and employment of a specific group of youth,
DIGITAL ECONOMY FOR A DIGITAL BANGLADESH
‘Digital Economy’ is the worldwide network of economic activities, commercial transactions and professional interactions that are enabled by Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), which was first coined by Don Tapscott in his 1995 best-selling book “The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence”.It can be concisely
HYBRID CARS: NOW AND TOMORROW
CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER DILEMMA – TOUGH TIME TO BE A BANK
Bank Chief Innovation Officers have a tough balancing act on their hands. They have to help the bank be digitally savvy, establish new markets, and capture new revenue streams and at the same time not place burden on existing business that brings current revenue. In this complex, ever changing banking landscape,
COPYCATS
Everybody seems to love cats, so I thought I'd write a story about them. But perhaps not the cats that you'd expect. I am talking about Copycats. My story was triggered by a company that announced their revolutionary new technology platform this week. Now normally I am excited to see companies innovate, but
DFS: AN ECOSYSTEM FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF FINTECH TRANSFORMATION
Rezaul Hossain is an innovative and visionary corporate leader, having extensive exposure in successfully transforming Bangladeshi consumer from “Wireless” to “Cashless”. He has more than 24 years of work experiences in Sales, Distribution, Marketing, International Roaming, Logistics, Project management and Product development in ICT, Telecommunication and Digital money industries. In his
