tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277194968972250739.post4569329058053873857..comments2024-03-19T05:45:13.199+00:00Comments on Bangladesh Corporate Blog: Outsourcery: The emergence of B2C & P2P Offshoring?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277194968972250739.post-76246421615708844492007-06-27T06:55:00.000+01:002007-06-27T06:55:00.000+01:00Thanks for reading and commenting Iqbal. While I a...Thanks for reading and commenting Iqbal. <BR/><BR/>While I agree that that it’s all too easy to blame (or expect too much from) government, I would also venture that the IT industry is seriously hampered by infrastructural and policy constraints that need serious leadership. I see a fair bit of entrepreneurial will (perhaps not flair), developer skill, risk capital, and end-user acceptance of web technology. Perhaps what is missing is business acumen and strategic leadership, but I digress.<BR/><BR/>BASIS report, "A country Report by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Service Software Companies in Bangladesh" available here: http://www.bangladoot.org/basis-report-software-bangladoot.pdf<BR/><BR/>Even if these are all lacking, I would guess that better network connectivity would allow these to grow, would allow, as you say, more entrepreneurs to prove something by “doing it first”, to try things out, to fail, to learn about user communities, to have more fun with technology. Reliable connectivity would allow for the full web experience, better interactivity (sharing ideas and content both ways), enable distributed services, even just more plain exposure to emerging business models and tools. <BR/><BR/>Considering that localized online credit card processing is (as I understand it) a legal gray area (de facto illegal), private sector VOIP is de jure illegal (if TCP/IP e-mail data, why not voice packet data?), and bandwidth is so limited even after the sub-marine cable, there are clearly some serious policy and environmental stumbling blocks. While the rest of the world debates issues like network neutrality, we still don’t have a reliable network. While others can build or hop onto passing boats, we have yet to find a river to cross. Just a mixed and mangled metaphor that hopefully comes across as a thought.bengal*foamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16525865542052852920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277194968972250739.post-58910792105623201932007-06-26T09:13:00.000+01:002007-06-26T09:13:00.000+01:00nice article bengal foam. i wish our IT industry t...nice article bengal foam. i wish our IT industry think-tanks like BASIS read this article and wonder why our IT industry keep on missing boats, trains and other modes of vehicles to 'move forward'. Its easy to blame the Government every time, but it also goes without saying that if you can prove something by doing it first, like Mr. Ganesh, rest would follow. We just don't seem to get over hand-holding all the way and be spoon-fed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com