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Power to Women in Tech
Luna Shamsuddoha, seated far right, president of Bangladesh Women in Technology, poses with other leaders at the launch of the forum.
Credit: The Daily Star
The Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) platform was recently launched with the goal of empowering women with technology and helping them find computing careers. BWIT is exclusive to women entrepreneurs and is completely managed by women. "Our intention is to take entrepreneurship further and our effort is to make our professionals more competent and productive by being a part of the global knowledge industry," says Dohatec New Media chairman Luna Shamsuddoha, who was named BWIT's president.
The group is open to information technology (IT) business entrepreneurs, IT professionals, senior corporate executives, and computer science professionals. "Although a lot of women IT graduates are created at university level, they are finding difficulties in building a career in IT due to the social stereotype towards women," says BWIT's vice president for computer science professionals and Dhaka University professor Suraiya Parveen.
"Such organizations can contribute to the growth of IT industry in Bangladesh given the growing importance women are having in the economic growth," says Mahboob Zaman, president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services.
From The Daily Star
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