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Habibullah N Karim

CYBERNAUTIC RUMINATIONS

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From digital to smart: Bangladesh on the growth path

That Bangladesh is a growth superstar of Asia looms large in any global economic forum, be it the World Economic Forum or the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. This sustained growth has been largely fuelled by the government’s unapologetic push for digitising all government services to citizens, building an ecosystem for technology startups and incentivising the ICT services industry over the last decade and a half.
19 February 2024, 18:00 PM
19 February 2024, 18:00 PM
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How to prevent gas explosions

A cheap solution has been around for decades
3 April 2023, 09:00 AM
3 April 2023, 09:00 AM
The growth and evolution of our digital economy

The growth and evolution of our digital economy

In this digital lifestyle, the demarcation between the physical and the virtual has become fuzzy and transmutable.
28 February 2023, 15:00 PM
28 February 2023, 15:00 PM
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Why Bangladesh's export diversification has not improved in two decades

For other sectors to expand as much as RMG has, they must be given better policy support.
6 November 2022, 18:00 PM
6 November 2022, 18:00 PM
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How Bangladesh can boost digital entrepreneurship

It is disheartening to see that Bangladesh couldn’t find a place in the top third of the ranking in this very telling study.
26 October 2022, 11:49 AM
26 October 2022, 11:49 AM
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Pandemic induced accelerated adoption to stay, or revert?

The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year 2020 has affected human civilisation like no other since the Spanish Flu pandemic exactly a hundred years ago.
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
12 February 2022, 18:00 PM
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Bangladesh and the ongoing technological revolution

In the last one year the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than a hundred million and killed more than two million people around the globe—the pandemic is not yet done.
18 February 2021, 18:00 PM
18 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Do mothers ever leave us?

We are brought into this world by our mothers with whom we have an inseparable “biome” connection.
11 February 2021, 18:00 PM
11 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Padmaavat: An epic film with lessons for us all

All that brouhaha and petty religiosity surrounding the release of the Bollywood film Padmaavat built up a huge anticipation among moviegoers around the world.
14 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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Quirks of banking and payment systems

We have some of the strangest banking and payment system strictures in the world.
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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Going Digital

While we are mesmerised by several hundred-billion-dollar valuations of Apple, Google, and Facebook, cyber pundits are already talking about the next killer app or the next search engine darling.
4 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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