CYBERNAUTIC RUMINATIONS
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.
In this digital lifestyle, the demarcation between the physical and the virtual has become fuzzy and transmutable.
For other sectors to expand as much as RMG has, they must be given better policy support.
It is disheartening to see that Bangladesh couldn’t find a place in the top third of the ranking in this very telling study.
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.
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.
We are brought into this world by our mothers with whom we have an inseparable “biome” connection.
While we are mesmerised by several hundred-billion-dollar valuations of Apple, Google, and Facebook, cyber pundits are already talking about the next killer app or the next search engine darling.