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Women entrepreneurs have come a long way despite facing social and economic barriers, speakers said yesterday.

Now female entrepreneurs need policy support and more budgetary allocation, which will lead to the development of entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, they said.

The speakers made the comments at the silver jubilee celebration of Women Entrepreneurs' Association (WEA), Bangladesh's oldest platform of women in business which was formed in 1993, at Gulshan Club in Dhaka.

Addressing as chief guest, Atiqul Islam, mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation, said women have significant contribution in bringing success to the country's apparel exports.

He said many Bangladeshi female designers were working with world famous brands but the country's people were in the dark of their success stories.


“Many women entrepreneurs could not promote their products in foreign markets. We will have to open up opportunities for them so that they can grow,” said the mayor, also a former president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

Atiur Rahman, former governor of Bangladesh Bank, said the lack of finance was still a major challenge for women entrepreneurs although the situation was gradually improving due to some policy measures taken by the central bank.

“Social barriers are still prevailing as banks ask women entrepreneurs to make their husbands guardians and guarantors,” said the former governor.

He came up with a suggestion for overcoming the financing hurdles faced by women entrepreneurs. Every year the government allocates Tk 200 crore for women entrepreneurs but the fund remains unspent, he said.

So, the government can create a guarantee scheme of Tk 200 crore in the coming budget to make the fund usable, said Rahman.

Rokia Afzal Rahman, founder president of the WEA and vice president of the International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh, said the WEA has proved its quality by establishing itself as a strong forum in the last 25 years.

“Now time has come to reach entrepreneurs in remote corners, focus on humanity and stand beside physically challenged women,” said the reputed entrepreneur.

Many associations of women entrepreneurs have been developed and all those should collaborate with each other so as to have a strong voice, she said.

She urged the government to extend policy support and more budgetary assistance to develop female entrepreneurship.

Nilufer Ahmed Karim, president of the WEA, said many members of the association have graduated into large entrepreneurs in the last 25 years.

Sidsel Bleken, Norway's ambassador to Bangladesh, also spoke at the programme.

At the silver jubilee celebration, the WEA honoured its past presidents for their outstanding contribution to developing women entrepreneurs.

They are Rokia Afzal Rahman, Masarrat Khan, Sharmeen Soneya Murshid, Sabrina Islam and Nasreen Rab Ruba.

The WEA in its 25-year journey has been promoting women entrepreneurs in various sectors including readymade garments, ornaments and jewellery, handicrafts, handloom, leather products, light engineering, pharmaceuticals, customer services and information and communication technology.

The association also does advocacy for creating favourable business environments for women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. The WEA has also taken initiatives to connect its members with the global market.

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Software Engineering / Celebration of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016
« on: November 17, 2016, 12:18:23 PM »
Greetings
 
You will be delighted to know that Department of Entrepreneurship is going to organize the "Start-Up Fest 2016" to celebrate the Global Entrepreneurship Week on 21 November at DIU Auditorium and the ground floor of DT: 05. It will be a daylong event (10:00am - 5:00pm). The partners of this event are: Bangladesh Venture Capital Limited (BVCL) and Career Development Center (CDC). The Media Partner of this event is Bonik Barta. It is my honor to invite you all to the auspicious event.

It is mentionable that Department of Entrepreneurship is organizing this Start-Up Fest to provide our students with necessary support to be successful entrepreneurs in future. In this connection, I would like to request you to motivate students of your esteemed Department, who want to be entrepreneurs in future, to participate at the Start-up Fest 2016.
 
 
For detail information, please visit the facebook link of the event:
 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1088845701232888/ 

 

Your presence at the event and mentorship will highly encourage our youngsters to achieve their dream.

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Mr. Rahul Sachdev, Head - SAP University Alliances India Subcontinent has visited Daffodil International University on 18 October 2016 and participated in a meeting with Dr. Touhid Bhuyian, Head dept. of SWE. The agenda of the meeting was SAP University Alliances: Shaping the future of education issue. They have also discussed on various issues and shared their opinions on possible mutual benefits.

Later, Mr. Rahul Sachdev, Head – SAP also meet with Honorable Chairman Md. Sabur Khan, BOT and Honorable VC , Professor Dr. Yousuf Mahbubul Islam, DIU.

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It’s the latest buzz in business: to be a successful company these days, you need to attract and retain so-called “rock star” employees: highly talented, high performing, ambitious young professionals.

There’s only one problem with that hype, authors Charles Duhigg and Adam Grant remind us in their latest books: it doesn’t work. The real rock star companies aren’t those with rock star employees. It’s those with highly committed, one-company men and women.

It seems a bit counter-intuitive at first, both Duhigg and Grant admit in their respective books, Smarter, Faster, Better and Originals. Research from the first dotcom era indicated there are broadly five types of companies: those with a “star culture” with rock star employees, those with an engineering culture, those with a bureaucratic or authoritarian culture, and finally those with a so-called commitment culture. The latter, Duhigg clarifies, are like a throwback to a corporate culture from times past, where men and women remain at the same company for their entire careers.

 
When sociologists James Barron and Michael Hannan, who led the study, looked at the success rate over time, they found an odd result. While rock star employees often helped their companies reach success in terms of an initial public offering, as often they led a company to its demise.

“Putting all the smartest people in the same room could yield vast influence and wealth,” Duhigg explains. “But unexpectedly, star firms also failed in record numbers. They were less likely to make it to an IPO […] and they were often beset by internal rivalries […] because everyone wants to be a star.”

But there was one blueprint far superior to the others, Grant says: commitment. “When founders had a commitment blueprint, the failure rate was zero,” he wrote. The reason for that remarkable result was that the founders of such companies focused on finding people with a cultural fit over skills and potential. They also worked to build strong emotional bonds, rather than giving autonomy and challenging tasks, which was the case for star blueprint companies. It was a recipe for long-term success. Or as Grant summarized it: skills and stars are fleeting, commitment lasts.

If companies want be successful today, they might thus do well to foster an age-old corporate culture: that of the one-company men and women. To obtain such a culture among employees anno 2016, Duhigg advises, companies should invest heavily in training, avoid layoffs whenever possible, and offer generous maternity and paternity leave, daycare programmes and home office. Those strategies won’t pay off in the short run, as they can be hard to implement and costly, but they work over the long term.

The benefits are legion, Duhigg says. In commitment cultures, a sense of trust emerges among workers, managers and customers. Employees are motivated to work harder and to stick together through the inevitable setback a company faces. And ultimately, a commitment culture also results in higher levels of teamwork and a higher psychological safety, increasing productivity and limiting absenteeism and people leaving the firm.

But for all the benefits of a commitment blueprint, the model also carries one potentially lethal shortcoming, Grant warns: a mono-culture. As an example, he points to Polaroid, a company that carefully and successfully fostered a commitment culture among its employees, but almost went bankrupt when the digital revolution took place. Even though digitization was known to Polaroid as early as 1980, the company and its employees dismissed it could ever replace printed photos. The company’s founder had built a well-oiled, well-run company of committed employees, but they had also become a mono-culture blind to outside forces disrupting their industry.

That evolution is not limited to Polaroid, Grant suggests. Based on work of psychologist Benjamin Schneider, he concludes that “companies tend to become more homogeneous over time”, and that that is especially true for commitment-driven companies. “As they attract, socialize and retain similar people, they effectively weed out diversity in thoughts and values.”

To overcome that possibly lethal hurdle, Grant proposes companies find ways to keep in dissenting opinions, even if that feels awkward. “Dissenting opinions are useful even if they’re wrong,” he says, because disrupting consensus encourages group members to engage in divergent thinking. Combining a highly committed culture with one with dissenting employees is possible, he says, because group bonding is not affected by dissenting opinions. People can respectfully disagree, and still be highly loyal to each other and their company.

In all, it remains an intriguing thought: if you want to build a successful company, you should not attract the biggest rock stars. A loyal orchestra of employees will perform better – provided there is a dissenting tone every once in a while, to keep everyone focused.

Adam Grant is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a professor in the Global Leadership Fellows Programme. His book Originals is on sale now. Charles Duhigg is a New York Times columnist and author of Smarter, Faster, Better, on sale now. This post is part of a leadership series from the World Economic Forum's Global Leadership Fellows programme :o.

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Software Engineering / Starting class of LICT
« on: September 18, 2016, 09:25:17 AM »
Top-Up IT Training of ICT / Science Graduates for IT Services Segment
This sub-component will develop and implement a program to convert ICT / CSE / non-IT science graduates into IT services professionals by providing IT services skills training. In interactions with the industry it has been represented that not only is there a problem with the quality of IT graduates for the IT services segment, but there is also an acute problem of the availability of adequate numbers for both the domestic industry and for international placement.
Currently, the yearly number of IT or software graduates from public and private universities and colleges are below 5,000. However, it is estimated that Bangladesh needs, at least, 10,000 IT trained graduates to become a serious IT services outsourcing destination in the global outsourcing market. Given the current tertiary level IT education structure in public and private education system, the IT industry feedback is that the quickest way to increase the size of the pipeline of IT/software graduates is to arrange a top-up training program of six to nine months for graduates enrolled in various science subjects in various universities or university colleges. Hence this sub-component will focus on the development of 10,000 computer professionals over 4 years in Bangladesh. The program would target both computer and non-computer science professionals and train them for jobs in IT. Given the importance of clear industry linkages for such a program, it is best to entrust the program to the industry in Bangladesh. Leading IT associations will be involved in the design and rollout of the program. Students to be enrolled in the project will be selected from various ICT/CSE/science/engineering subjects; such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, bio-chemistry, statistics, population science, etc. The selection process will maintain a minimum gender ratio in order to encourage women’s participation. To ensure that the training provided to the students is relevant to the industry requirements (so that they can be absorbed readily by the software/IT industry), the training curriculum development and delivery of training will be coordinated by industry bodies (e.g., BASIS) jointly with concerned government entities like BCC. The expected sub-activities are as follow:
§  Training program on software/IT for CSE/science graduates
§  Arrange the necessary infrastructure (e.g. Hardware/Software/Connectivity) for training at selected preferable public university campuses
§  Development of curriculum, courseware/content, and assessment tools
§  Hiring and training of faculties (faculties from existing universities/institutes and others)
§  Student enrollment and training delivery
This sub-component will also adopt an internationally recognized software developer certification program, preferably linked to a leading global academic institution with high credibility in the area of software engineering and computer sciences. In order to improve the quality of these skills in Bangladesh it will be equally important to introduce programs that adhere to global standards. In addition this sub-component will have a customized faculty training program to improve the quality of the faculty available for teaching IT. To promote women’s participation in this industry segment, the faculty training program will encourage women master trainers. At the same time, male master trainers will be trained to assist in promoting women’s participation.
 
http://www.lict.gov.bd/topup_it_training.php
For your information please.

We are going to start training on 25 September 2016 at 5.30 PM on the following subjects for the selected students of SWE
1. Java programming
2. PHP
3. .Net

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Software Engineering / LICT training for final year students
« on: July 24, 2016, 09:17:21 AM »
This sub-component will develop and implement a program to convert ICT / CSE / non-IT science graduates into IT services professionals by providing IT services skills training. In interactions with the industry it has been represented that not only is there a problem with the quality of IT graduates for the IT services segment, but there is also an acute problem of the availability of adequate numbers for both the domestic industry and for international placement.
Currently, the yearly number of IT or software graduates from public and private universities and colleges are below 5,000. However, it is estimated that Bangladesh needs, at least, 10,000 IT trained graduates to become a serious IT services outsourcing destination in the global outsourcing market. Given the current tertiary level IT education structure in public and private education system, the IT industry feedback is that the quickest way to increase the size of the pipeline of IT/software graduates is to arrange a top-up training program of six to nine months for graduates enrolled in various science subjects in various universities or university colleges. Hence this sub-component will focus on the development of 10,000 computer professionals over 4 years in Bangladesh. The program would target both computer and non-computer science professionals and train them for jobs in IT. Given the importance of clear industry linkages for such a program, it is best to entrust the program to the industry in Bangladesh. Leading IT associations will be involved in the design and rollout of the program. Students to be enrolled in the project will be selected from various ICT/CSE/science/engineering subjects; such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, bio-chemistry, statistics, population science, etc. The selection process will maintain a minimum gender ratio in order to encourage women’s participation. To ensure that the training provided to the students is relevant to the industry requirements (so that they can be absorbed readily by the software/IT industry), the training curriculum development and delivery of training will be coordinated by industry bodies (e.g., BASIS) jointly with concerned government entities like BCC. The expected sub-activities are as follow:
§  Training program on software/IT for CSE/science graduates
§  Arrange the necessary infrastructure (e.g. Hardware/Software/Connectivity) for training at selected preferable public university campuses
§  Development of curriculum, courseware/content, and assessment tools
§  Hiring and training of faculties (faculties from existing universities/institutes and others)
§  Student enrollment and training delivery

To join this training final year students need to pass an exam which will on today 24/07/2016 at 12.00 PM in DT-4.
Questions Category                          Passing Marks
a.    Analytical MCQ                                     40%
b.    Mathematics                                         40%
c.    English                                                35%

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Daffodil Japan IT Ltd is a Japan based recruitment firm which has been working for the last the 2 years in Bangladesh to create employment opportunities for Bangladeshi engineers in Japan and Japanese companies’ Vietnam, Singapore and Bangladesh office. In line with that, this time a Japanese Company named “Works Applications Corporation Ltd.” (Japanese largest ERP Company) is going to recruit IT engineers from Bangladesh for their Singapore office through DJIT. The registration link is http://djit.ac/wapjob . The last date of registration is 18th November, 2015. The online Coding test will be held from 19th to 23rd November, 2015.

Working with a global team can change the career path of your students. We believe that this job offer is a good opportunity for your university's  CSE and SWE grades. You are requested to circulate this job news to your students. We believe that this opportunity will help your students to secure a global career.

We thank you for trying hard to educate the students and helping to secure good career.

Regards,


JOB Offer Details
Company Details:
The Company named WAP Corporation, Japan, was established in 1996, Head office: Tokyo, Japan. The company is the largest ERP provider in Japan, such as Company series. WAP has international office in NY, Singapore, Shanghai and India.

Job Position: Programmer

Requirements:
- No work experience required
- No Japanese language required
- Fresh Graduates are encouraged to apply
- Programming language JAVA or C++ or C Sharp required for Coding Test
- Intelligence required

Academic Requirements: 
CSE, IT, SWE Graduates from reputed University.

Salary & Benefits:
International Standard Salary Package

Job Location: Singapore

Selection Process Schedule:
Stage-1: Online Resume Submission deadline on 18th November, 2015 (Wednesday)
Stage-2: Online Coding Test: 19th to 23rd November, 2015
Stage-3: Interview with WAP, Japan: 27th / 28th November 2015,
Stage-4: Job Declaration Ceremony

Application Link:  Resume Upload at http://djit.ac/wapjob

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Dept. of SWE and DJIT are jointly going to organize a seminar on “Campus Recruitment From Japanese Company”. Daffodil Japan IT Ltd is a Japan based recruitment firm which has been working for the last the 2 years in Bangladesh to create employment opportunities for Bangladeshi engineers in Japan and Japanese companies’ Vietnam, Singapore and Bangladesh office. In line with that, A Japanese Company named “Works Applications Corporation Ltd.” (Japanese largest ERP Company) is going to recruit IT engineers from Bangladesh for their Singapore office through DJIT. As the SWE graduates of Daffodil International University have been doing exceptionally well in the job market, Works Applications Corporation is interested to hire graduates from Daffodil International University. With that objective, Work’s Applications Corporation and DJIT authority are interested to give a formal presentation on next 16th November, 2015 in Daffodil International university at 10.00am to 1.00pm explaining Works Applications, job opportunities in Works Applications, recruitment procedure, job opportunities in Japan etc.  All interested persons are requested to join the seminar.

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Science and Information / Program to Promote a Mobile Application DAAK.
« on: October 28, 2015, 12:56:18 PM »
 :) :) :)
The department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University (DIU) and agile software development firm organize a program to promote a mobile application DAAK. This mobile Application Daak won first prize in National Hackathon 2014 in SR category. Daak is a mobile application to prevent sexual harassment. Three members of that Daak team were students of Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University. This application are in 2nd round, and they need votes to qualify to the next round. So we are requesting you all to vote for this mobile application. Links are as below:

Global innovation competition link: http://ideas.makingallvoicescount.org/a/dtd/Daak/142575-26650

Google play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rupamit.daak&hl=en

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Science and Information / Campus Recruitment for Intern
« on: October 11, 2015, 03:26:45 PM »
The Department of Software Engineering, Daffodil International University (DIU) and TECHSOL Technology Bangladesh have jointly arranged a program titled “Campus Recruitment for Intern” on 11 October 2015 in the Banquette Hall of Daffodil Tower-5.
The Vice Chancellor of DIU Professor Dr. Yousuf M Islam chaired the event and Chairman of Techsol Technology Prof. Arnab Chakraborty delivered the key note as a special guest. Among others the Head of the Department of Software Engineering, DIU and Director of Techsol provided their speeches with guidelines of getting job to the students of DIU.
In this event 15 students of Department of SWE were selected primarily for internship in Techsol Technology Bangladesh.

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Science and Information / workshop on developing computer games
« on: October 05, 2015, 09:24:54 AM »
Department of Software Engineering (SWE) likes to arrange a workshop on computer game development for interested students. In this workshop students will be able to learn required knowledge area of simple and complex computer games and skills to develop them. This workshop would be facilitated by a group of senior and ex-students of SWE dept. who are already in game development.  :) :)

Details about the event is stated below.

Workshop on computer game development
Date      : 21 October 2015
Time      : 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue   : Lab 304

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Science and Information / Seminar on Cyber Security Awareness
« on: October 03, 2015, 05:14:20 PM »
Department of Software Engineering and Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Dhaka chapter have planned to jointly organize a seminar on Cyber Security Awareness for the students of Daffodil International University on 3 October 2015 in DIU auditorium. This seminar will make the students understand the prospect of the Cyber Security in today’s world. :) :)

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Science and Information / Seminar on Software Freedom.
« on: September 19, 2015, 03:37:09 PM »
Department of Software Engineering & FOSS BD are jointly organizing a seminar on Software Freedom for the student of Daffodil International university. The seminar will make the students understand about the freedom of software and advantages of open source software.

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Textile Engineering / Enhancing Quality of Teaching using Google Classroom
« on: September 08, 2015, 03:59:59 PM »
The Department of Software Engineering and Institutional Quality assurance Cell of DIU jointly organized a seminar on “Enhancing Quality of Teaching using Google Classroom” to improvement the teaching in classroom. Honorable guest Dr. S.M. Mahbub Ul Haque Majumder, Dean, FSIT
Professor Dr.  Md. Fokhray, Head & Additional director of IQAC and Professor Dr. Muhammad Mahboob Ali, Director of IQAC was present to deliver their valuable speech there.


The program was conducted by Dr. Touhid Bhuiyan, Head dept. of Software Engineering. The seminar entitled “Enhancing Quality of Teaching using Google Classroom” is billed as an informative presentation aimed at showing how teacher can use Google classroom and how to come over the problems which they face during using the Google classroom. This seminar is also based on an open discussion between the experts and the participators.

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