...Globalization has brought in many changes in the business scenario with the whole world inching towards a big market place. Communication between buyers and sellers become critical as each can opt to explore a greater number of alternatives than before. E-commerce through the use of internet, e-mails, websites and other facilities enables a businessman to be linked with every corner of the world and thus opens up greater opportunities in the world market. As a signatory of WTO practices Bangladesh has accepted The Code of Good Practices of WTO agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. E-commerce facilitates the very process of International transactions; this involves securing and finalizing a contract, delivery of a product and finally payment for the performance of the product. The movement of goods and services and payment mechanism within a country and outside of a country is governed by regulatory and legal issues. Though Bangladesh Govt. has a strategic vision and policy framework to boost up e-commerce, a lot of factors are also hindering the way of doing E-commerce. Definition of E-Commerce: E-Commerce refers to the process of buying or selling products or service over an electronic network. The most popular medium in which e-commerce is conducted is the internet. It combines a range of process such as: • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). • Electronic mail (E-mail). • World Wide Web (WWW). • Internet Applications. • Network Applications. ...
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...institution’s view on financing opportunities for SME institutions. As a financial organization the report shed light on BSRS and its BCC/BASIS/ICT Incubator and its adjacent financing modules. From entrepreneur’s point of view a number of incubator listed firms were selected and their financing process has been introduced. This report exclusively focused its view toward ICT SMEs. The fact that ICT Incubator is only accessible to IT companies and the importance of ICT in Bangladesh economy growth has an implicit importance in this regard. The report took this issue further by listing the bars that remains in today’s financial market for an ICT SME. The report also contains critical analysis of the whole financing process and its pro/cons. The submitters took the liberty of comparing BSRS normal SME financing schemes and its past data with BSRS/BCC/ICT Incubator financing schemes. This report also showed the Requirements, Paper works, Validation process, Other payment options & Follow through of the whole financing process. Past data of BSRS financial investments and loan disbursements as well as data on participation in ICT incubator has also been included. Recent times have seen an encouraging up rise of women participation in SME institutions. This fact has not been ignored and an analysis with relevant data on women participation in BSRS and ICT Incubator scenario has been introduced. The investment process for SMEs has been presented with diagrams and charts. A relatively unique...
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...Executive summary Bangladesh has begun to develop its IT and software industry only recently, and has seen double-digit figures in growth on most IT sectors, the gaming sector not among them. Bangladesh is far behind most of its neighbors in the gaming industry. There are several reasons to this, as well as probable causes. Based on interviews and focus group discussion, we have come up with several problems and prospects, as well as reasonable solutions to the problems, of the game development sector. In the aftermath, appendices and a bibliography would assist our honorable readers to better understand our methodology and enable them to refer to and compare this study with similar pieces of work. Contents Page no. Letter of transmittal i Executive summary ii 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Origin of the Report 1 1.2 Objective 1 1.2.1 Broad Objective 1 1.2.2 Specific Objectives 1 1.3 Literature Review 1 1.4 Scope 2 1.5 Limitations 3 2. Background of the study 3 2.1 Game development industry 3 2.1.1 Popularity of games 3 2.1.2 Popularity of Virtual games 4 2.2 Types of games 4 2.2.1 Web based games 5 2.2.2 App based 5 2.2.3 Normal PC Games 5 2.3 Demand for web based, app based, and PC game. 5 2.4 The Global Gaming Industry 5 2.5 Outsourcing firms (Firms that are outsourcing in the ICT industry) 6 2.6 Bangladesh Gaming Industry 7 Gaming revolution in Bangladesh 7 Emergence of multiplayer gaming 8 2.7 Gaming Application Development...
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...During the late 90’s, Bangladesh has seen an increasing growth of the ICT industry. Initially, the favorable tax policy of the government of Bangladesh in 1998 accompanied by the global affordability of personal computers have had tremendous impact on the usage of computer. The favorable import tax policy on computers and computer accessories during that time was one of the timely steps taken by the government of Bangladesh. From then on, in accordance with the global trends, both private and public sectors in Bangladesh caught up with effective utilization of information technology. Information Technology is the combination of all activities relating to collecting, processing, storing, using and transmitting data and information through the use of computers and communication networks. The computer services are of the following major types: SIZE OF SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN BANGLADESH According to the Bangladesh Bank source, export earnings from Software and ITES was USD 27.01 million in the fiscal year 2005-06 registering a high growth of 113 per cent from the previous year (2004-05). The following chart shows the Bangladesh software and ITES export earning for last five years. Table 1: Export earning of Bangladeshi software in recent 4 years EXPORT ORIENTED COMPANIES IN BANGLDESH In recent days many local and Joint Venture Company are operating in Bangladesh to meet the rising demand of the software and automation industry. The following companies...
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...November-December, 2006, pp. 31-39 An Overview of the Software Industry in Bangladesh Syed Munir Khasru Abstract: Software is one of the most talked about but unexploited industries in Bangladesh. Last two decades have seen lot of initiatives, both in public and private sector, to stimulate growth in this sector. Although some successes have been achieved, Bangladesh lags far behind other South Asian countries like India and Sri Lanka in terms of employment and revenue generation in the software industry. Against such background, this paper takes a close look at the software industry of Bangladesh. Starting from the formative years of the software industry to different measures taken by the government to support this sector, the paper analyzes the factors critical for achieving development and growth in this industry. In the process, a set of recommendations have been made to catalyze the software industry in exploiting its potentials to the fullest. Keywords: Software, IT Enabled Services, Intellectual Property Right, IT Policy. Introduction Software has become a growing industry in Bangladesh over the last two decades. This paper highlights this unexploited industry based on available published information mainly collected Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). Evolution of the Industry in a Nutshell Software industry in Bangladesh has come a long way over the last few decades. The industry has become dynamic with a significant number of energetic...
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...Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) – Bangladesh ELEMENTS OF A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ENABLED SERVICES SECTOR IN BANGLADESH USAID Bangladesh IT Enabled Services Project SETA Task Order Number: 4002-345-001 Subcontract Number: 011227001/4000 Contract Number: GSOOK97AFD2185 Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 1. Introduction 10 2. The Market for IT Enabled Services 13 Market Characteristics 13 Factor Requirements to be Competitive 15 3. Bangladesh Market Advantages and Disadvantages 19 Costs and Efficiency 19 Productive capacity 21 General business environment 25 4. A Bangladesh ITES strategy 28 Potential ITES Market Segments 29 Building Productive Capacity 32 Lowering Costs 37 Building a Competitive Environment 38 Marketing of Bangladesh ITES sector 40 5. Recommended Actions 42 Improving Productive Capacity 42 Lowering Cost, Improving Efficiency 44 Marketing and Business Environment 45 Focus on Growth 47 Annex A: Analysis of Market Segments 49 Annex B: ITES Workshop Report 63 Annex C: The opinion surveys of this study 68 Annex D: Summary of the Philippines Case Study 81 Executive Summary Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) is a large, fast-growing worldwide industry fueled by customers seeking efficiency and cost-savings...
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...host countries can take several other forms: • FDI allows transfer of capital and technology, which is not possible through financial investment in goods and services. • FDI also promotes competition in the domestic input market • Profits generated by FDI contribute to the corporate revenue in the host country • Operation of new ventures by FDI leads to employee learning in the host country who learn how to manage and operate the businesses. This contributes to human capital development of the host country. • Profits generated by FDI contribute to tax revenues in the host country FDI is different from other major types of external private capital flows in that it is motivated largely by the investor’s long-term prospects for making profits in production activities that they directly control. Foreign bank lending and portfolio investment, in contrast, are not invested in activities controlled by banks or portfolio investors, and are often motivated by short-term profit considerations that can be influenced by a variety of factors—for example, interest rates—and are prone to sudden reversals (capital outflows) if any/some of these factors turn unfavourable. Mallampally and Sauvant (1999) claim that the...
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...Prospect of National and International Business in Bangladesh In consideration with the level of production and supply, potential contribution to the export sector, demand in the international market government has identified two production sectors as “highest priority sectors” and “special development sectors”. The government will continuously modify this list, and provide special privileges to encourage the export of these products. If it is properly implemented and revised regularly then business will contribute to a great extent to our national economy. Most priority sectors These sectors have special export potentials but yet could not be utilized properly due to certain constraints. More success is attainable if adequate support is rendered to them. For example: 1) Agro-products and agro-processing products; 2) Light engineering products (including auto-parts and bicycles); 3) Footwear and leather products; 4) Pharmaceuticals products; 5) Software and ICT products; and 6) Home textile. Special Development Sectors Product sectors which have export potentials but whose production, supply and export base are not well organized will be included in special development sectors so as to strengthen their export base. The following product sectors will be included in the special development sectors: 1) finished leather production; 2) frozen fish production and processing; 3) handicraft products; 4) electronic products; 5) fresh flower and foliage; 6)...
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...Abstract Nowadays e-commerce, e-business and financial services industry have increasingly become a necessary component of business strategy and a strong catalyst for economic development. E –banking can provide speedier, faster, and reliable service to the customer for which relatively happy. As a third world developing country, Bangladesh is far behind to reach the expected level in global banking system. So it is our urgent need to upgrade its banking system. This study has been done mainly based on primary and secondary sources of data or information, which included different publications. This paper is aimed at to determine the present scenario of e-banking and banking sectors in Bangladesh and at the same time it demonstrated the scope and benefits of e-banking compared with the existing system. “E-banking” refers to systems that enable bank customers to access accounts and general information on bank products and services through a personal computer (PC) or other intelligent device. Its products and services can include wholesale products for corporate customers as well as retail and fiduciary products for consumers. The main focus of this study is to examine the performance, problems and prospects of E-banking in Bangladesh. The study is descriptive in nature. It reveals that E-banking mostly depends on IT. At present, IT is a subject of widespread interest in Bangladesh. The government has declared IT as a thrust sector. The study recommends that a comprehensive...
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...Letter of Transmittal January 25, 2011 Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury Professor, School of Business North South University Dear Sir, Here is the report on “BASIS, Study of Performance Capacity” that you asked me to prepare as a requirement for the completion of the course BUS 498. As you will see, this report includes an analysis on the present and future performance of BASIS, the national association for the software industry of Bangladesh. Despite already having an association for the IT industry of Bangladesh, in 1997 BASIS was created with the purpose of better representing the software industry of Bangladesh, as the other association represented mostly the hardware industry. The performance of BASIS is of utmost importance as the local software industry has the capacity to be a major foreign currency earner and a great source for employment. According to the members, so far BASIS has performed well, and in the future, it holds the capacity to contribute significantly to the growth of the software industry of Bangladesh. I appreciate your thoughtfulness for providing me with the opportunity to investigate the association, imparting valuable knowledge and experience to me. Sincerely, Syed Shahidul Islam Khan Acknowledgement This report is a study on the present and future performance of BASIS, where I have tried to investigate the performance capacity of the association. This section of the report is to acknowledge all the support that I have...
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...ABSTRACT Agriculture is the most important sector of the economy of Bangladesh which provides 63% employment and contributing 18.6% to the national GDP. But unfortunately the farmer’s community is one of the most deprived ones in our country and frequent access to information remains one of the crying needs for a long time period. It can enable them to enhance their quality of life. It has been argued that telecommunication operators can come to aid in this respect. Telecommunications operators have already expanded their services and provided specialized agro-based services to the farmers. This paper attempts to investigate the attitude of the farmers about these agro-based services provided by the telecommunication operator. It also explored the characteristics of the user’s and their perception. Data were collected from 120 respondents who were the user of telecommunication operator’s agro-based services from selected areas from August 18 to October 15, 2011. The data were collected through a structured interview schedule. Evidence from interviews, personal observations suggest that most of the user of these services were young, had little farming experience with small farm side and from small to medium families. These services were treated helpful to overcome their obstacles to information collection but still not efficient like the means they use to collect information traditionally. They wanted information in various field of agriculture especially in the area of price...
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...E-banking in Bangladesh: An exploratory study on how the banks are adopting with e-banking E-banking in Bangladesh: An exploratory study on how the banks are adopting with e-banking Prepared for: Mr. Shubhankar Shil Assistant Professor School of Business Administration University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Course Teacher Insurance and Leasing Prepared by: Muntasir Rashid Khan Student ID. 1268 BBA Program (1st Batch) Department of Finance & Banking JahangirnagarUniversity Savar, Dhaka-1342 March 08, 2012 Letter of Transmittal March 08, 2012 Mr. Shubhankar Shil Assistant Professor School of Business Administration University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Subject: Submission of Term Paper Dear Sir: I have great pleasure to submit my required term paper on E-banking in Bangladesh: An exploratory study on how the banks are adopting with e-banking. I have provided my best effort to conduct this report. Now I am presenting my report for kind assessment and hope that it will fulfill your satisfaction. Any kind of suggestion or recommendation from your side will be highly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely yours, |..................... | | | |Muntasir Rashid Khan | |Student ID. 1268 | BBA Program (1st Batch) Department of...
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...Evidence From Bangladesh. Submitted To: Abul Khayer Lecturer Department of International Business University of Dhaka Submitted By: Raju Ahmed (Id no. 5) Lima Nath (Id no. 19) Tanzin Ara (Id no. 26) Zuairiyah Mouli (Id no. 43) Syed Arman Ali (Id no. 57) Department of International Business (3rd Batch) University of Dhaka Letter of Transmittal 3rd november, 2013 Abul khayer Lecturer Department of International Business University of Dhaka Sir, This is to inform you that the report on “The information security challenges and threats of private Banks: evidence from Bangladesh” that you assigned us to prepare has been submitted already. We have tried our best to disscuss the findings. Hope our report will fulfill the purpose and encourage us to do further. We express our gratitude to you for your guidance and we hope that this report will fulfill your requirements. Any short of suggestion regarding this report will be greatly acknowledged and we will feel proud if our paper serves its purpose. Sincerely Yours, Raju Ahmed (Id no. 5) Lima Nath (Id no. 19) Tanzin Ara (Id no. 26) Zuairiyah Mouli (Id no. 43) Syed Arman Ali (Id no. 57) Department of International Business (3rd Batch) University of Dhaka Table of Contents Abstract 4 Executive summary 5 1. Introduction 6 2. Literature Review 7 3. Research Objectives 9 4. Methodology 10 5. Technical Product Used by Bank in Bangladesh 11 5...
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...Problems and prospects of mobile banking in Bangladesh S.M. Sohel Ahmed (Corresponding author) Lalmatia Mohila College Lalmatia, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. E-mail: smsohelahmed@gmail.com Shah Johir Rayhan Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh. E-mail: johir_rayhan2006@yahoo.com Md. Ariful Islam Regional Statistical Officer Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Samina Mahjabin Department of Management & Finance Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh Abstract The main objective of the study is to find out the problem and prospect of mobile banking in Bangladesh. For this research primary data were used. This study adopts with descriptive in nature. Total respondents were 120 within that 61 % respondents think it saves time than traditional banking, the highest number of respondents use mobile banking for ‘Air-time top-up’ service, that is 21%, out of 120 respondents 56% replied it is less costlier than traditional banking, 100% respondents did agree that it is speedy, and 38% respondents are upper class. Although this concept is new in Bangladesh but its potentiality is high. From this research, other researchers and policy makers will get an insight about the problems and prospects of mobile banking in Bangladesh. Key words: Problem, prospect, Mobile banking. 1. INTRODUCTION E-business has been continuously growing as a new industry during the last decade (Van Hoeck, 2001). The banking industry has been leading...
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...Paper The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967 5010. Accepted 25 September, 2009 Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by globalization and rapid change of economic pattern. This now forces policymakers to prioritize the production of skilled manpower that can contribute for sustainable development. The countries that achieved sustainable development have given a high priority to science and technology education in formulating education policy. Bangladesh has no more alternatives in order to gain development, except properly utilizing its population. Bangladesh’s economy and human development could have grown faster than its actual progression in the last 25 years (that is, since independence in 1971), if it had earlier taken substantial steps in educational development. This paper has defined a ‘network age population’ for Bangladesh. This paper also suggests that this population is required to provide science and technology based education with...
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