Thursday, February 05, 2009

Train is whistling, Bangladesh get up

Recently I had the opportunity to attain the BASIS SoftExpo 2009. I was there at the fair stalls, attained quite a few seminars and finally the CEO Night sponsored by the main sponsor Grameenphone. Everywhere I found a mood of 'Yes we can' feeling. One might argue -- well, that's the whole point of organizing seminars or expositions. But I had a feeling it had more than that.

With the global financial crisis hanging around, with developed countries looking for cheaper options, with GOB pledging for digital Bangladesh by 2021, with simultaneous change of regime in US and Bangladesh -- both heavily emphasizing on technology, and with recent trend of NRBs and US SMEs acquiring Bangladeshi IT & ITES firms -- can we say that train is coming, and we need to bundle ourselves up? Some (e.g. KJ of InterNext) say that it's the last train. A think there's always a next, but we don't know when is that next. I won't enjoy watching my grandkids availing my dreamt train leaving me on the platform forever. Will you?

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