Bangladesh Corporate Blog: Renaming for a Digital Bangladesh

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Renaming for a Digital Bangladesh

Do you have a new born? Do you know someone who has a new born? Do you dream of a Digital Bangladesh? Do you believe that names have an impact on how the baby would behave when it grows up? Then waste no more time, go nowhere else...some of our creative brains have proposed some innovative Digital Bengali names for our new borns, the future Digital Generation Bangladesh...shall we call them Gen-D?

Since the primary audience of this blog targets English speaking (and reading) Bangladeshi and non-Bangladeshi business readers, I have transliterated the Digital Bengali names. Here is all we have for your naming pleasure.

1. Mouse Choudhury

2. Monitor Alam

3. Mozilla Akhter

4. Opera Khatun

5. Cable Dewan

5. Modem Khandker

6. DVD Khan

7. Google Mia

8. Profile Choudhury

9. Schedule Alam

10. Folder Sheikh

11. Refresh Mahmud

12. Email Patowary

13. Laptop Haider

14. IBM Chattopaddhay

15. Ipod Kibria

16. PC Sarkar

17. Kamruzzaman Excel

18. Intel Chakraborty

19. Asus Majumder

20. RAM Mohan Roy

21. Apple Khan

22. Casing Akhter

23. Duel Rana

24. Audio Hawladar

25. XP Singh

26. Device Adhikary

27. Undo Mia

28. Zafrullah Sharafont

Amazing piece of naming convention and innovation isn't it? Let me know which one(s) you liked the most. I still believe that we as a nation naturally possess great sense of humour, however if we also had put our brains and time in the right places in right time, we should have become more developed than Malaysia by now (sigh). Nevertheless, I hope the policy makers and spoilticians (spoilt politicians) of Bangladesh would greet these digital Bengali names and the act of renaming babies with arms wide open, as they love renaming almost everything in Bangladesh, depending on whoever is in power. So if they are dreaming of a Digital Bangladesh, what best a way than to start renaming the future generation in the true digital way.

I wish we could rename a donkey as a horse and it would soon start running faster and win important races for us. Only and only if it were so simple and easy. Hardly anything would be achieved other than a good laugh and some time wasted, by naming or renaming babies, bridges, hospitals or airports. There is a reason why every programmer is not called 'Bill Gates' or 'Steve Jobs' in the US and why they still lead the global software powerhouses. Rather than renaming, we better relook at the way we go about doing our business, revise our perceptions towards branding, entrepreneurship, innovation, refresh our knowledge about Bangladeshi brands and businesses and rethink the way we want to portray ourselves to the business world.

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