State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Tuesday hoped the youths of Digital Bangladesh will work abroad including Europe and America through freelancing or becoming entrepreneurs by receiving IT training to create employment opportunities for thousands of youths.
He said this while laying foundation stone of Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Center on the Dinajpur College campus premises of the district.
The Junior minister said, Freelancers who work at 55 marketplaces and have been selected by the ICT ministry will get the incentive.
The freelancers in Bangladesh will get a boost with the incentives that they have been seeking for a long time, he said.
Palak expressed his optimism that the IT training centre will be a shelter of employments for young generation.
It will play an important role in turning the country into a knowledge-based, smart and economically developed Bangladesh from a labour-based economy, he said, adding that the IT centre will contribute significantly in preparing the youths in facing the fourth industrial revolution.
The state minister also hoped that the Bangladeshi youths in future will develop robotics, IOT, cyber security tools for exports.
The six-storey IT training centre is being built in the campus at a cost of Taka 799 crore under observation of Bangladesh Military. Once opened, it will facilitate 1,000 youths to received training.
Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Managing Director Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, Diesel Plant Limited Managing Director Brigadier General Syed Md Rafiqul Islam, Learning and Earning Project Director Humayur Kabir, Dinajpur Deputy Commissioner Khaled Mohammad Jaki, Police Super Mohammad Anwar Hossen, Dinajpur Government College Principle Professor Abu Bakkar Siddique were present, among others.
Dinajpur-3 lawmaker Iqbalur Rahim chaired it.
PARIS: Google celebrated recently 15 years since it kicked off its mammoth and hugely controversial effort to photograph streets in minute detail across the globe.
The panoramic images of Google Street View have slipped into daily life for millions—but during its early years it attracted countless court cases and howls of anguish from privacy campaigners.
The US tech giant is marking the anniversary by releasing a slew of new features, including an improved version of the “time travel” tool that allows users to see previous photos taken by Google’s cameras.
The firm also published lists of the most popular destinations for users—with Burj Khalifa in Dubai taking the top spot for buildings, followed by the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal.
Google said Indonesia was the most popular country for Street View, ahead of the United States, Japan, Mexico and Brazil.
The Indonesian capital Jakarta was the most searched city, beating Tokyo, Mexico City, Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires.
The firm boasted in a blog post that it had collected 220 billion images and travelled more than 10 million miles since the first images were released of cities including San Francisco, New York and Miami.
It has since provided armchair travellers with panoramic views everywhere from the peak of Everest to the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.
But as Google expanded its reach, it drew widespread criticism and years of scrutiny from regulators in several European countries—large parts of Germany are still absent from the tool.
It has also faced several embarrassing moments when inadvertently capturing images of a private nature.
In 2013, the firm photographed a couple having sex next to their car on an otherwise deserted road in Australia, and the picture briefly made it onto the platform.
TEL AVIV, May 29: Israel’s traffic congestion ranks near the worst among developed economies but an algorithm can help, says one of the country’s IT firms engaged in the auto and mobility sector.
ITC, or Intelligent Traffic Control, was one of the artificial intelligence players at Tel Aviv’s recent EcoMotion showcase where high-tech and AI firms hope to make transport more efficient and cleaner.
Its AI software collects real-time data from road cameras and then sends instructions to manipulate traffic lights based on vehicle flows.
“ITC managed to prove mathematically that many traffic jams can be prevented -- if you intervene early enough,” said its co-founder and chief technology officer Dvir Kenig, citing a 30 percent drop in traffic at the two junctions using their system.
The company says road congestion is a global scourge, calculating that the average driver spends three days a year stuck in traffic, also pumping out greenhouse gas emissions.
The problem is acute in Israel where, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development says, “transportation infrastructure lags significantly behind” most member countries and “road congestion is one of the worst in the OECD”.
EcoMotion’s founder Meir Arnon told AFP that surging global interest in smart mobility had made Israel an auto industry player, even though it doesn’t manufacture any cars.
“Cars changed,” said the industrialist turned investor. “Cars were metal and wheels and a radio. Today these things don’t matter, they’re all mass produced by the same companies for everyone.
“What differentiates car manufacturers today is the driving experience... the vehicle’s ability to adapt itself to the driver,” he said.
Systems developed by Israel’s army and private defence industry—notably surveillance, communication and sensory technology—have become central to automakers, Arnon said.
DHAKA, March 24, 2022 (BSS) - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has aimed to make its investments double in Bangladesh within next five years, with a focus on creating jobs, to accelerate country’s resilient recovery and to spur green growth.