Sunday, November 21, 2004

Bangladesh in Fourth Asia Open Source Software (OSS) Symposium, Taipei-Sept 2004

Bangladesh (Mr. Muhammad Rahman): Mr. Rahman presented an overview of OSS in Bangladesh. Mr. Rahman then introduced the status of OSS in six dimensions, including government, business institutions, academia, ISPs, and software companies in Bangladesh. Mr. Rahman's presentation also covered an overview of Bangladesh's economy and its need for OSS. In addition, Mr. Rahman mentioned the constraints and the bottlenecks in the use of open source technologies in Bangladesh and the steps taken to remove those bottlenecks.

Mr. Rahman's presentation material is available at
http://forge.iis.sinica.edu.tw/presentation/economy/4OSSinBangladesh.ppt