Habibullah N Karim

CYBERNAUTIC RUMINATIONS

From digital to smart: Bangladesh on the growth path

That Bangladesh is a growth superstar of Asia looms large in any global economic forum, be it the World Economic Forum or the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. This sustained growth has been largely fuelled by the government’s unapologetic push for digitising all government services to citizens, building an ecosystem for technology startups and incentivising the ICT services industry over the last decade and a half.

9m ago

How to prevent gas explosions

A cheap solution has been around for decades

1y ago

The growth and evolution of our digital economy

In this digital lifestyle, the demarcation between the physical and the virtual has become fuzzy and transmutable.

1y ago

Why Bangladesh's export diversification has not improved in two decades

For other sectors to expand as much as RMG has, they must be given better policy support.

2y ago

How Bangladesh can boost digital entrepreneurship

It is disheartening to see that Bangladesh couldn’t find a place in the top third of the ranking in this very telling study.

2y ago

Pandemic induced accelerated adoption to stay, or revert?

The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year 2020 has affected human civilisation like no other since the Spanish Flu pandemic exactly a hundred years ago.

2y ago

Bangladesh and the ongoing technological revolution

In the last one year the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than a hundred million and killed more than two million people around the globe—the pandemic is not yet done.

3y ago

Do mothers ever leave us?

We are brought into this world by our mothers with whom we have an inseparable “biome” connection.

3y ago
February 20, 2024
February 20, 2024

From digital to smart: Bangladesh on the growth path

That Bangladesh is a growth superstar of Asia looms large in any global economic forum, be it the World Economic Forum or the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. This sustained growth has been largely fuelled by the government’s unapologetic push for digitising all government services to citizens, building an ecosystem for technology startups and incentivising the ICT services industry over the last decade and a half.

April 3, 2023
April 3, 2023

How to prevent gas explosions

A cheap solution has been around for decades

February 28, 2023
February 28, 2023

The growth and evolution of our digital economy

In this digital lifestyle, the demarcation between the physical and the virtual has become fuzzy and transmutable.

November 7, 2022
November 7, 2022

Why Bangladesh's export diversification has not improved in two decades

For other sectors to expand as much as RMG has, they must be given better policy support.

October 26, 2022
October 26, 2022

How Bangladesh can boost digital entrepreneurship

It is disheartening to see that Bangladesh couldn’t find a place in the top third of the ranking in this very telling study.

February 13, 2022
February 13, 2022

Pandemic induced accelerated adoption to stay, or revert?

The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year 2020 has affected human civilisation like no other since the Spanish Flu pandemic exactly a hundred years ago.

February 19, 2021
February 19, 2021

Bangladesh and the ongoing technological revolution

In the last one year the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than a hundred million and killed more than two million people around the globe—the pandemic is not yet done.

February 12, 2021
February 12, 2021

Do mothers ever leave us?

We are brought into this world by our mothers with whom we have an inseparable “biome” connection.

September 29, 2020
September 29, 2020

Winners and losers in a Covid-19 economy

The novel coronavirus started to expand into all corners of the globe from the very beginning of this calendar year, as the whole wide world watched the silent spread of the contagion from those affected in Wuhan, China—the origin of the scourge—and then from returning nationals in various parts of the world.

August 19, 2020
August 19, 2020

Can Covid-19 make us stronger?

There is an old saying that “what does not kill you makes you stronger”.