IT freelancing grows in Bangladesh
Sultana Parvin is a mother of two living in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital. She is petite, soft-spoken and wears a colorful headscarf. She is also a star information technology (IT) freelancer in Bangladesh.
In 2014, Parvin was named Bangladesh’s top female freelancer in Bangladesh by BASIS, the country’s IT industry association. She has done more than 100 freelance IT jobs for clients around the world who hired her through websites such as ODesk and Fiverr.
It’s been a quick rise for someone who didn’t know much about computers until 2012. Parvin, 42, was a self-described housewife of 20 years who wanted to make extra money for her children’s education, but couldn’t work since her family moved frequently due to her
Sri Lanka woman used as pawn In Bangladesh cyberheist?
A Sri Lankan small business owner, who received $20 million of the $101 million that was stolen from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last month, is claiming to have had no knowledge of the funds’ disreputable path to her.
The woman, Hagoda Gamage Shalika Perera, told Reuters that the $20 million deposit, in and of itself, was not a surprise, as she had been expecting that amount to be transferred to the account of her Shalika Foundation, which constructs low-cost houses and provides other social services in Sri Lanka, from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to help fund a power plant and other projects.
The wrinkle here is that Perera claims to have had no direct dealing with JICA and the
Banglalink will observe Compliance Week
Banglalink will observe Compliance week from 3-7 April to lead in its digital transformation
Future is digital. As the country moves toward the digital revolution, Banglalink, the second largest Telecom operator in Bangladesh is also shaping itself to be prepared for this journey. It also believes that digitalization has its enormous opportunities and comes with some risks too. Compliance, being one of the key drivers for a sustainable business growth in digital space, Banglalink believes the awareness and practice of ‘compliance’needs to start from within the company and eventually will spread out to all the avenues a digital companyhas to work including its business partners. Keeping this at the fore front Banglalink has declared the first
