GRP software will ensure transparency and accountability
Postal, Telecommunication and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar inaugurated a day-long review workshop organized by the Bangladesh Computer Council's conference room at Agargaon, Dhaka.He said that Software Requirement Specification (SRS) has been prepared by analyzing the details according to the needs of all stakeholders to create procurement and asset management Modules as a part of GRP (Government Resource Planning) software to ensure the transparency and accountability of the government.With the development of two modules, it can be easily done by coordinating with e-GP, and all the purchases can be done easily and the efficiency of proper use and procurement of the purchased assets will increase.The Minister also said that with the help of the entire local technicians, the government of Bangladesh has made a huge task of creating a GRP system for the use of different ministries, divisions, offices of the Government of Bangladesh and a big challenge, with all sincere efforts, urged all concerned to expedite its development activities.Presided over by Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council Parthapratim Dev, the workshop was attended by Secretary of the Department of Information and Communication Technology NM Ziaul Alam, various departments, head of the organization, stakeholders of the project, representatives of BUET's designated consultancy team and Synesis IT. Workshop conducts and welcomed the project director Dr. Ashok Kumar Roy. The 48 participants of different ministries, divisions and organizations participated in the workshop. Under Bangladesh e-Governance ERP Pilot Project, a total of nine modules are being developed for the six organizations of ICT Division and four agencies of the Planning Ministry. Later this GRP will be implemented in all the ministries, divisions and organizations of Bangladesh.
Charge against Facebook and YouTube regarding Christchurch
On March 15, a group representing France's Muslims filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Facebook and YouTube in a protest against the spread of Christchurch in New Zealand.On 15 March, two mosques fired in New Zealand, killing 50 people and at the same time live streamed for 17 minutes on Facebook, and without any delay the video was shared over to social media sites across the Internet and YouTube.The French Council of Muslim Fight (CFCM) submitted legal papers against two technology companies in response to the spread of the video contained in the terrorist attack of Christchurch city on the basis of the spread in the social platform. They say, companies promote terrorism and promote such things that harm human dignity. There was no immediate comment from the companies.CFCM president Ahmed Vargas told CNN that taking the legal process against Facebook for not restricting the rapid spread of video.CfcM Islam phobia Observatory Unit President Abdullah Zakri said the agency has submitted formal legal complaint against Facebook and YouTube in France.According to the Facebook authorities, they have removed hundreds of copies of the video from their platform. However, video footage is available for several hours after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram WhatsApp and Utu attacks.A spokesman for the Federation of Islamic Association of New Zealand (FINZ) Federation welcomes the French party's activities. He said his organization had planned to contact Facebook to register their complaints, but they were still busy after the attack, hence they could not file a case.A statement published on the Facebook website said that nearly 15 million shared videos were removed from the video of the attack within the first 24 hours. Nearly 12 blocked video uploads, which means that Facebook users cannot see it. However, Facebook authorities failed to say the amount of viewers for the rest of the 3 million views of the content.A Facebook spokesman told the BBC, "Facebook is not a place of bad activity and hate speech by a terrorist. We have compassion for the families of the victims and the families affected by this tragedy. Immediately after the attack, we quickly took the initiative to remove the video from our platform. Besides, we are cooperating with the authorities. " One has been charged with a count of murder in Christchurch shooting and will appear in court on April 5.
Are we ready for cyber war?
The present era of Cyber-age indeed is a trending topic where network with the presence of internet provides foremost impact on professional and social life. Having a widespread range of internet has also arisen the apprehensiveness of network security. We rely upon technology intensely which decodes to the emergence of the online hacker. The expanding nature of the organization results the higher danger of cyber-assault. This is the reason cyber security comes into the picture to rescue. Cyber security, as a textbook definition, refers to the collection of security concepts, rules, legal acts, regulation, exercise, training and assurance of technologies, safeguards, policies that can be utilized to ensure the cyber condition, association and client’s assets. To be more precise, it guarantees the completion and maintenance of the security resources of the organization and user’s benefit against applicable security risk in the cyber environment.In the context of cyber space, Bangladesh has turned out to be a standout amongst 100 nations, ranked 73 in the National Cyber Security Index (NCSI). Cyber-attacks often took place, which caused loss of assets in very recent time. Banking segment, corporate division, intelligent agencies, Bangladesh administrator services, credential data storage, and a lot more are being affected by the involvement of cyber-crime. According to the Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2015, about 69.55% individuals are in the high risk of local virus infection and around 80% users are the victims of spam attack in Bangladesh. Bangladesh bank experienced a massive loss of money as hackers successfully stole nearly $100 million in the year 2016 and depict an alert for the other banks as the considerable threat of cyber-crime. Moreover, the endurance of destruction of several online resources due to the cyber-war occurrence has led the country to look for possible solution. Cyber-security therefore, demands an incredible working opportunity, related to almost every account. The demand for security experts is foreseeing to develop in the coming days. The cyber security market is expected to grow to around $232 billion by 2022. There is an extensive requirement for security experts to work in the ethical hacking field in order to deal with its security, particularly client data or private details. Big IT organization in Bangladesh, Army sector, banking sector, firmly recognize the requirement for data security specialist, cyber security experts, and ethical hackers. Hence, an ethical hacker or security expert is usually employed by companies to ensure the security system powerful.
Application deadline extended for the startup world cup 2019
“eGeneration presents Startup World Cup 2019, Bangladesh” is indeed a great open door for those Entrepreneurs who want to represent their associations to the world stage. This event is firmly co-organized by the Bangladesh Innovation Forum (BIF) and cooperated by Fenox Venture Capital, one of the top investment capital firms. Regional competition will be held on April 6th, 2019, to choose the topmost startup. The past due date for the application which was March 20 now has been extended and will be acknowledged till March 25th.Interested Candidates can partake to this competition by the following link: www.egeneration.co/fenoxswcFacilitators proclaim that, out of the blue this year, one Bangladeshi technology startup will get the chance to represent Bangladesh and contend in Startup World Cup Grand finale, held in Silicon Valley. The victor will be given 1 million dollars as a venture for the startup. Hence, the regional competition will be arranged in Bangladesh to elect that startup.10 of the best startups in Bangladesh will be welcomed for the finale to pitch for the chance to compete for the Startup World Cup competition, occurring on April 6th, 2019. A portion of the judges incorporate Dr. Anis Uzzaman, Co-founder and Chief Executive, Fenox Venture Capital; Shameem Ahsan, General Partner, Fenox Venture Capital, Sonia Bashir Kabir, Managing Director for Microsoft Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and Laos; Mustafizur R Khan, Founder and CEO, Startup Dhaka; and Minhaz Anwar, Head of Accelerator, GP Accelerator.
