04-09-2020

FRIDAY, SePTeMBeR 4, 2020
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'Stack Learner' has published a programming learning framework called "SL3 Framework".
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Bangladeshi young entrepreneurs to make
revolutionary change in programing
TBT DESK:
A group of young entrepreneurs of
'Stack Learner' is working tirelessly to
make the dream of Bangabandhu's
daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy to create
a digital Bangladesh one step further.
They have been working for a long time
to make computer programming
accessible and understandable to
people. In this continuation they
distributed knowledge of various
computer programming languages and
web development among the people
through Online, YouTube and their own
websites.
When contacted with the 'Stack
Learners' founder HM Nayem and cofounders
Shegufa Taranjum and
Shayaike Salvy said that "Prime
Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina
has taken many groundbreaking steps
so far to build digital Bangladesh. One of
her notable steps is to add information
and communication technology in the
textbooks. Today, school and college
students are getting acquainted with
programming because of her farreaching
thinking in this sector. Because
of her knowledge to make Bangladesh
digital, it is our to attract the new
generation in the field of programming
and technology".
'Stack Learner' have more than thirty
thousand students in both online and
offline platform. After working directly
with thousands of students, they
suddenly decided that they would work
on the most fundamental topics of
Bangladesh and is going to make a
revolutionary change in programing
through its young entrepreneurs
through computer programming.
'Stack Learner' will make the scribbled
code of computer programming
understandable to people. In
continuation of this, they have
published a programming learning
framework called "SL3 Framework".
The sole aim and purpose of the
framework is to ensure maximum use of
computer in solving real-life problems
by developing programming thinking in
the students.
The organization claimed that they
have added another dimension to
computer programming by combining it
with real-life so that even school and
college kids can easily understand the
basics of computer programming. They
also suggest a few specific steps to solve
the problem of programming very
easily. They claim that following the
steps taken to solve the problem, it will
be possible to solve any programming
problem quickly and at the same time
develop the brain in computer
programming.
At present, they only work on the
fundamental topics of programming but
in the near future, their plan is to work
on all the major aspects of computer
engineering. Talking to them so far, we
came to know that they are now working
on simplifying even more complex
subjects like mathematics so that those
who want to learn programming outside
of computer engineering do not stray
from programming into complex
subjects like mathematics.
The freelancing profession is
spreading all over our country, involving
millions of people from different
sectors. The Stack Learner team claims
that these millions of people are being
forced to stop after crossing just because
they don't have enough skills in the four
main areas of computer engineering.
Stack Learner's young entrepreneurs
have created "SL3 Framework" to make
the basics of programming, practical
mathematics, data structures and
algorithms,
object-oriented
programming and competitive
programming easily understandable to
the general public, not just computer
engineering students. They are creating
different websites and applications to
deliver programming education to
people for free.
Not only this, but they have also
started a consultancy-system named
"Stack Consultancy" for the students so
that their dream can't be shattered by
the bare-faced traders. During the
Covid-19 period, the whole country was
under house arrest. That time these
small entrepreneurs made their all
online courses full-free for one month so
that the students can make the best use
of their lazy time. In that one month,
they gave free courses to more than five
thousand people, with a total value of
more than one crore taka.
As always, they are moving forward
with some different plans. They claimed
that it will not be easy to digitalize the
country in this specific sector if not
provided with education beyond the
traditional way. To this end, they have
decided to take some groundbreaking
steps which have created a stir among
the students.
The website address of 'Stack
Learners' is; https://sl3.app.
10 Bangladeshi students to receive
training from Huawei Headquarters
Huawei, the world's leading ICT
solutions provider has announced 10
outstanding ICT talents from five
renowned universities of Bangladesh.
The champions have been announced in
a virtually organized gala event for
'Seeds for the Future 2020'recently, a
press release said.
The event was started with the
welcome speech of Chen Mingjie (Jay),
Vice President, Huawei Asia Pacific
Region with the presence of the Chief
Guest Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury,
MP, Deputy Minister, Ministry of
Education, and the special guest,
Beatrice Kaldun, Head of Office and
UNESCO Representative to
Bangladesh. Zhang Zhengjun, CEO of
Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh)
Ltd., and other officials of Huawei along
with the champions also joined the
event.
A total of 500 students partook in the
selection phases, and from there, 10
champions have been selected based on
their CGPA (Cumulative Grade Points
Average), spot examination and their
presentation on new technology and
innovative companies.
Huawei has been organizing this
event in Bangladesh for the last five
years. Traditionally, the chosen students
would go to China for a study trip for
two-week; however, due to COVID-19,
the training has been shifted to an
online program.
The 5-day online program will consist
of compulsory courses, live-streamed
sessions with Huawei experts and guest
speakers, elective courses, and selflearning
about Chinese culture. The core
curriculum will cover 5G, Cloud
Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI),
and many more. On the other hand, the
elective courses might vary from the
digital economy, industry trends to
leadership skills.
On this gala event today, Mohibul
Hassan Chowdhoury said, "Today, it is
becoming increasingly important for
developing economies like Bangladesh
to adopt the rapidly changing skills
landscapes. To become more
competitive and follow the fast pace of
technological innovation globally,
developing economies need to enhance
the knowledge and skills of the youth
who, later in the future, will become the
next change-makers and leaders. ICT
will empower the youth and lead them
to make a good contribution to society.
This is much appreciable when the
localized global ICT leader Huawei is
taking the responsibility of grooming
ICT talents of Bangladesh."
Beatrice Kaldun commented, "More
than ever before, ICT talent and
innovative ICT solutions are needed to
respond to the myriad challenges
caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Huawei, through the Seeds for the
Future Programme, is supporting
talented Bangladeshi youth to acquire
the skills and cutting-edge knowledge in
areas of ICT that will enable them to
thrive in their professional careers and
make a contribution to the sustainable
development of Bangladesh"
Chen Mingjie said, "We have a huge
amazing resource and that is the large
portion of youth and talents in
Bangladesh. Huawei believes youth is
the main engine of development as well
as digital advancement. We value them
and praise their competency. And we
feel our responsibility to guide them so
that they can select the right path;
realize their value and contribute to the
developments of society. With that
inspiration, Huawei has come up with
the topic for its social benefit programs
in the country; 'Seeds for the Future', an
ICT talent hunt education program that
is devoted to easing ICT talent shortage.
With this project, we want to plant that
visionary seed in their mind so that in
the coming years they can come up with
new ideas to make this society fully
connected and intelligent."
The Seeds for the Future 2020
champions are Afsara Benazir and
Khandaker Mushfiqur Rahman from
Bangladesh University of Engineering
and Technology (CSE Department),
Tasnia Sultana and Abdullah Al Miraj
from Chittagong University of
Engineering and Technology (EEE
Department), Rabeya Tus Sadia and
Amit Karmakar from Rajshahi
University of Engineering and
Technology (CSE Department), Adiba
Tabassum Chowdhury and Arifur
Rahman from Dhaka University (EEE
Department), and Faria Rahman and
Foyez-ul Islam from Khulna University
of Engineering and Technology (EEE
Department).
Walton sells 7 lakh fridge in May-July’20
A sharp growth in online sales following coronavirus pandemic
The country's electronics
giant 'Walton' sold out seven
lakh units of refrigerator in
the domestic market during
the period between May and
July 2020 in which two
major festivals of Muslims
Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Azha
were celebrated, says a press
release.
During this period, the
online sales of Walton fridge
were also drastically
increased following the
coronavirus pandemic across
the country.
According to local fridge
traders, about 10 lakh units of
fridge were sold during the
period between Eid-ul-Fitr
and Eid-ul-Azha. Of which, 7
lakh units were of Walton
brand fridge.
Walton officials said that
there were some major
factors behind the
outstanding sales of fridge
amid coronavirus pandemic.
These factors were: release of
huge energy efficient,
environment-friendly and
innovative designed inverter
and glass door refrigerators
with wide voltage design,
reasonable prices, high
quality, available of 1 year
replacement guaranty as well
as 12 years guaranty on
compressor, easy installment
facility up to 36 months,
assurance of swift after sales
service through 74 service
centers, scope of getting Tk
10 lakh, Tk 1 lakh or sure cash
vouchers on the purchase
Walton fridge under the
Digital Campaign Season 7.
Md. Tanvir Rahman,
executive director and head
of Walton Online Sales
Department, said that
Walton emphasized on
strengthening its online sales
platform 'E-plaza' during the
countrywide lockdown to
stop widespread of
coronavirus transmission.
Online customers were also
offered attractive discounts
on the purchase of Walton
products from E-plaza, he
said adding that Walton
registered a record growth of
2000 percent in the online
sales of Walton brand fridge,
television, home and kitchen
appliances.
Anisur Rahman Mallik,
chief executive officer of
Walton Refrigerator
Department, said that they
have strongly focused on two
important factors that are
manufacturing fridge
considering the customers'
demand as well as improving
the people's living standard
through delivering them
world's latest technologies
product with lucrative design.
At the production stage of
Walton fridge various
modern tools including Five
S, Six Sigma and Kaizen are
being used, he said and
added that cutting-edge
technologies
and
machineries are being used in
every stages of QC (Quality
Control) process, including
QA, IQC, PQC and OQC stage
for which customers are
getting the best fridges of the
market.
With the constant
improvement of production
including cooling, structural,
electrical and electronics
design, world's advanced
technologies and features
such as turbo cooling, quick
freezing and recovery, low
energy consumption, precise
temperature distribution, IoT
smart voltage stabilizing, low
thermal conductive foaming
etc. are added to Walton
fridges, Mallik noted. Beside,
multi-head foaming, lock
ring, automated brazing,
helium leak detection are also
used in Walton fridge
production.
Every fridge of Walton is
released in the market after
being assured of its quality
from international standard
NASDUT-UTS Lab. Walton
refrigerators have received
several standard certifications
at national and international
level, including BSTI's 'Five
Star' energy rating, ISO,
OHSAS, EMC, CB, ROHS,
SASO, ESMA, ECHA, G-
Mark, E-Mark etc. Walton
made refrigerators are being
exported to different
countries of the world as well.
Walton Refrigerator's
Product Manager
Shahiduzzaman Rana said,
Walton is displaying and
selling over 100 models of
frost, non-frost refrigerators,
freezers and beverage coolers
in the local market. Frost
refrigerators include
attractively designed glass
doors and BSTI's 'Five Star'
energy rated refrigerators
with extensive energy saving
inverter technology.
Refrigerators run smoothly
without stabilizers. Prices
range from Tk 10,990 to Tk
80,900.
Huawei, the world's leading ICT solutions provider has announced 10 outstanding ICT talents from five
renowned universities of Bangladesh. The champions have been announced in a virtually organized gala event
for 'Seeds for the Future 2020'recently.
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DCCI webinar on 4th Industrial Revolution
in the wake of Covid-19 held
Long-term policy,
modernization of education &
curriculum system,
infrastructure development,
industry-academia
collaboration and skilling, reskilling
and up-skilling are
priority for adopting the
advantages of 4th industrial
revolution, said speakers in a
DCCI webinar on "4th
Industrial Revolution in the
wake of COVID-19" held
recently, a press release said.
Minister for Posts,
Telecommunications and
Information Technology
Mustafa Jabbar joined the
webinar as the chief guest.
Ms. Parag, Additional
Secretary, Ministry of
Industries joined as guest of
honour. DCCI President
Shams Mahmud moderated
the webinar.
DCCI President Shams
Mahmud in his welcome
address said that the fourth
Industrial Revolution is
evolving fast and reshaping
and global industrial, trade
and economic landscape.
Bangladesh still lags behind
in adopting 4IR technologies
in industrial ecosystem and
Long-term policy, modernization of education & curriculum system, infrastructure
development, industry-academia collaboration and skilling, reskilling
and up-skilling are priority for adopting the advantages of 4th industrial
revolution, said speakers in a DCCI webinar on "4th Industrial Revolution
in the wake of COVID-19" held recently:
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this adoption will accelerate
our growth momentum.
Despite challenges of lowskilled
job loss in the shortterm,
launching 4IR
technologies will unlock new
era of growth and
employment across all sectors
of Bangladesh, he added. To
seize the opportunities of 4IR,
government may form a highlevel
national committee
engaging relevant agencies
and experts from public and
private sectors. He
recommended to consider
4IR perspective in the
upcoming national Industrial
Policy. Upon assessment, a
robust National 4IR
technology policy needs to be
framed to support application
of Big data, Block chain,
Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics and IoT for adding
value to our industrial and
economic competitiveness
and connecting digitallyenabled
global value chain.
He also urged for sector-wise
re-skilling, up-skilling and
development of human
resources in line with the 4IR
demand. Creating enabling
regulatory ecosystem
including enforcement of
Intellectual property rights
will facilitate the pathway of
4IR. He also recommended to
initiate 5G technology to
underpin low-cost Big Data
and diverse IoT services.