an institution established in Ramna on 600 acres of land originally established with world class educational focus on education in
Art, Sciences, and Law.
Do not be mistaken this is a university dedicated to education, but also steeped in social progress, and woven into the culture and community, the University of Dhaka is far more than an institution al hall of education.. as its students and faculty share to this day of the central role of the university in all national movements for democracy and autonomy including the language movement of 1952, the autonomy movement of 1966, the mass upsurge against the autocratic rulers of 1970, the elections of 1971, the anti-autocratic movement of 1990. In the War of Liberation, fourteen University of Dhaka teachers, one officer, twenty-six employees, and a few hundred students of the University lost their lives.
It was my pleasure to have toured the university and met Law and Economics professionals and students who were working very hard to study, to prepare and be involved in the creation of a new business future! One of the highlights of the visit for me was visiting the University of Dhaka faculty art show- rich in contemporary arts with a folklore heritage story behind it.. Very nice.
Outsourcing activities: As a small but national business owner of Helping Friends LLC, I had reservations about exploring outsourcing. However I also have been experiencing uncommon demand that IF I were to discover a cost effective solution, I can be more effective for my national clients and U.S. based jobseekers.. Well I found the breakaway business value in this place, where it was my pleasure to have met with
R2 Trading International and established a low cost with great benefit to both our companies, I can get some much needed data administration that will allow my U.S. operations to focus on high value add employment and placement services, while non critical data administration is managed according to my specification and business needs.
TECHNOLOGY: Plenty of Fortune 500 United States based companies currently see business advantage to doing business with Bangladesh, but with the majority of businesses in the United States being small to midsized business, and technology as a limitation in Bangladesh, there is SOOO much more that could be done with sound focus on business and IT advances. As a whole Bangladesh is in earlier stages of technology advances as a business advantage, Noble laureate
Prof Muhammad Yunus has notably emphasized the importance of Bangladesh advances in Information Technology to support an emerging business prosperity. Local government can do much to foster trade by advancing infrastructure and supporting local businesses who are innovating on a global scale, all this is good for economic condition and jobs creation.
The IT gaps and needs having been identified, the response is in the initative of
Digital Bangladesh an intiative meant to produce leading technology leadership by the nations independence anniversary, in 2021.
Best example I have heard of for local IT creating global influence was that of
Tiger IT. Its founder and
CEO Ziaur Rahman was featured in The Daily Star the day I heard of his company during breakfast with business executives from Motorola.
Tiger IT was awarded the leading technology interoperability standards by
National Institute of Standarda and Trades (NIST) is a United States based organization dedicated to produce common national and global technology standards that advance trade, security, innovation and jobs.
CAN I TELL THIS? There were some elements of Dhaka, so raw, so shocking I could not capture with a camera, it felt bad to capture it, and worse to tell it, but every day, and every person must feel the depth of its intensity as part of their being: never ending traffic, noise, and the sheer number of humanity on the streets is uncommon.. the contrast of radical poverty amidst progress also evident in a country that only 38 years ago fought for its independence and the battle is still evident, while progress is as well.
Truth be told, it was the hardest thing for an empath to experience radical poverty as I saw without wanting to immediately try to 'fix it'. But the more I experienced it, the more I appreciated the strength of character of the professionals I was meeting with.. who were so productive and gave themselves completely to their work, their community and their country, despite sometimes overwhelming obstacles. Those who read the n
ews or try to understand from a distance can not appreciate the beauty and promise the people of Dhaka represent.
Business contrast experience was the "Brickfields", where bricks are made from the native red clay, dried in the sun, then fired in the chimneys shown in this photograph.
The finished bricks are carried from the field in giant baskets or
directly on a laborers head then loaded on rickshaw to be ridden out by heavily laden bicycle operators. All the work highly manually intensive, so much that the American thought of workers compensation would not even cross ones mind!
In Summary: For travel or business, my trip to Dhaka Bangladesh was wonderful and eye opening. I wish to go again, I also wish to see Bangladesh's success on a local scale multiply as that rising tide could raise and benefit so many others. Refreshing to see a people so proud and yet realistically balanced, about their culture.. Pleasing to note that despite all obstacles a new business model emerges as does Dhaka.. There is progress, and you can feel it in the air. There is competitive advantage to knowing where you are and daring to move to where you might go, through sound business, collaboration, and communication.
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ad shared a deeper sorta soul.. My Dad, Mahlon Simmons, like Grandpa worked harder than any other man I knew. Dad built the home we were living in WHILE we lived in it, and AFTER he worked all day in the Pontiac Caterpillar Tractor Manufacturing plant. Dad would work all day at Caterpillar (he was a process engineer for Manufacturing, like I was a process expert for IT). When he got home, he'd change clothes and begin the next shift-- building our house.. Our home was built primarily out of recycled material in a time where this notion of green building was not fashionable, but the decision practical.. But Dad has SOOO much music in him, and HE introduced me to the importance of songs with REAL meaning-- folk songs and the blues.
