Intellectual sovereignty
Bangladesh is running a high risk of losing intellectual sovereignty in near future. I just came back from the US with a view to starting a technology movement in this country with the local skilled girls and boys. But I'm shocked and horrified seeing several anomalies in technology and its implementation. I would strongly request you to propagate my concern to the people of this country. Firstly, people who do not understand technology at all head most of the government and non-governmental organisations and they pretend to be experts on the subject. Therefore those people cannot guide their technical people in the right direction. Secondly, most of the software firm/companies do not follow any development or engineering process in software development, which results in poor quality software development or no software at all, and that gives a poor impression to local and foreign buyers. I went around many companies at Dhaka in search of skilled manpower for working on a foreign software project, but I was shocked seeing malpractice almost at every level of software development and understanding.
As a result, lots of software engineers from neighbouring countries have been employed in local companies. I can visualise that slowly and gradually the number of foreign technical hands will grow in our local companies and our local skilled people will be deprived of the jobs they deserve.
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