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BGP
routing and BGP multi homing workshop |
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A six days long workshop on “BGP routing and BGP
multi-homing" was organized by Bangladesh Internet
Exchange (BDIX), ISP Association Bangladesh (ISPAB) in association
with ICT promotion Council and Ministry of Commerce at BDIX,
(Pahtha Path office Dhaka). In the workshop various issues
on BGP routing and practical demonstration on BGP multi-homing
was widely discussed. In the workshop the tanning session
and some important papers were presented by Mr. Gourob Raj
Upadaya from PCH (Packet Clearing House) and Internet Economic
Analyst Mr. Amante lvaran from APNIC.
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| 27
September, 2006 |
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BDIX
General Meeting |
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Members of BDIX and other interested IT organizations had
met on September 27th, 2006 in a one day General Meeting at
BIDS conference room. BDIX Overall achievements, scope of
works and technical briefings along with relevant suggestions
were elaborately discussed in the meeting. The meeting was
ended with a mini discussion "BGP routing details"
for ISP peering. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Hakikur Rahman,
Project Coordinator, SDNP. The general secretary of ISPAB
and CEO, BOL, Mr. Ershad Chowdhury, and Mr Sumon Ahmed Sabir,
Managing Director, BDCom Online were the main speakers. |
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| 5
June, 2006 |
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SDNP
Cyber Cafe at BCFCC |
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SDNP Cyber Cafe at Bangladesh-China Friendship
Conference Centre
On the occasion of World Environment Day
5-7 June, 2006 |
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| 5
April, 2006 |
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Workshop
on ICT for Sustainable Development |
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SDNP has organized a workshop on ICT for Sustainable
Development at its regional station in Mymensingh. |
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| 8
March, 2006 |
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Seminar
on Tele-Health Activity of SDNP Bangladesh |
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Sustainable Development Networking Programme
(SDNP) of Bangladesh has organized a Seminar on "The
Prospects and Scopes of Telemedicine in the Context of Bangladesh"
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| 9
December, 2005 |
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Internet
Root Nameserver Deployment for Bangladesh |
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A mirror of the Internet F-root nameserver
has been deployed in Bangladesh. The Root Server- F is one
of the 13 Root Servers around the world to facilitate operation
of the Internet. |
| 17
November, 2005 |
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SDNP
regional administrators met in Dhaka Head Office. |
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All
four regional administrators from Cox's Bazar, Dinajpur. Mymenshingh,
& Sathkhira regional offices met with the technical and
web team of Dhaka Head office on November 17th, 2005 to attend
a one day interactive workshop.
The main objective of this meeting was to share various experiences
gathered by all team members to up hold activities of SDNP.
Overall achievements, scope of works and technical briefings
along with relevant suggestions were elaborately discussed
in the meeting. System administrators presented their slides
that include current status, future plane, associated problems
and their remedy, financial projection etc. Suggestions for
sustainability, developments and recommendations were also
focused in the meeting.
In the second session the meeting was ended with a mini handsome
covering "wireless network communication details"
for ICT capacity build up. |
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| 17,18,19
October, 2005 |
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Regional
workshop in Dinajpur towards the capacity building for the
deprived urban community. |
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SDNP
has recently organized a three days workshop at its regional
station in Dinajpur to raise the ICT expertise at the grass
root level stakeholders. Thus various IT enabled services
like Tele-medicine, On-line library, and information access
are also available through this regional node. more... |
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| Aug.16,
2005 |
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Launching
Ceremony of SDNP Regional Node at Chittagong University |
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In order to outreach SDN’s
activities in the regional stations, a regional node has been
established at Chittagong. SDNP has selected the Chittagong
University CU, as the possible host institute for setting
up the regional node. With the launching of the regional node,
the staff and students here will enjoy faster internet access
through V-SAT. |
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| Aug.
09, 2005 |
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Launching
Launching Ceremony of SDNP WAP Portal |
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On the occasion of launching
ceremony of SDNP WAP Portal a Press Conference was held on
August 09, 2005 at the National Press Club conference room.
The conference was jointly organized by Sustainable Development
Networking Programme (SDNP) Bangladesh, a component of Sustainable
Environment Management Programme (SEMP) under Ministry of
Environment and Forest (MoEF) funded by United Nation Development
Programme (UNDP) implemented by Bangladesh Institute of Development
Studies (BIDS) and AKTEL. |
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| Jun.
07, 2005 |
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Launching
of Resource Disk/CD on the Occasion of the World Environment
Day |
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Sustainable Development Networking
Programme (SDNP) of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
(BIDS) held a ceremony for the launching of a Resource Disk/CD
on 7th June, 2005 on the occasion of the World Environment
Day at 3.00 PM at Jatiya Press Club Conference Room. |
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| Jan.
28 - 31, 2005 |
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APAN
Dhaka Symposium and Workshop |
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Dhaka, 28 January, 2005 : A 4(four)
day long international workshop on advanced networking technologies
jointly organized by APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network)
and SDNP Bangladesh (Sustainable Development Networking Programme)
has been starting from January 28, 2005. The programme is
supported by the SEMP, MoEF and UNDP |
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| Jan.
12, 2005. |
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Maheshkhali
Cyclone Shelter is under the Cyber Net |
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Maheshkhali, an island isolated
from the mainland Cox’s Bazar, located at 10km west
is now becoming the part of the Internet World. With the inauguration
of the first ever Cyber Centre at the multipurpose village
information center has elevated Maheshkhali to this premium
level. |
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| Dec.
26 to Jan. 13, 2005 |
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SDNP participates
in the process of integration with military communication
resources |
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According to the opted decision taken at the
conference held at the HQ Army Signal Brigade on 01 December
2004, for integration of all the communication resources of
sister services, Para Military/Auxiliary Forces and Civil
Organization, SDNP Bangladesh is successfully participating
in the ongoing Winter Collective Training (WCT) through which
the testing process is executed. During this training, all
the participating agencies will share their resources for
the integration of equipments from their end with the Military
WLL communication resources.
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| Dec.
16 to 23, 2004 |
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SDNP sponsors
& provides Internet Connectivity at a Rural Festival |
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Through Satkhira regional node, SDNP- Bangladesh
was successfully provided internet connectivity at the “Bijoy
Mela” held at the Satkhira from December 16 to 23. With
the establishment of the connectivity visitors and spectators
enjoyed and felt the technological innovation at their finger
tip. This initiative was highly applauded by the festive crowds,
which was clearly marked by their remarkable and long awaiting
presence at the booth. In this issue SDNP, Bangladesh had
also launched a website on the festival highlights.
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| 30th
Nov. 2004. |
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SDNP
Concludes the IX training |
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At the completion of the five
days long training on the Internet Exchange, a simple certificate
award ceremony was held. System Administrators from the 10
connected ISPs, trained during these days were given the certificates |
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| August
18, July 19 and June 24, 2004 |
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Opinion
Sharing Meeting in Regional Nodes |
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To introduce SDNP at grass-root level and
at the same time learn from the communities about their opinions
and experiences, three opinion sharing meeting were held in
the three regional nodes of SDNBD.
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| 26th
Nov. 2004. |
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Training
on internet Exchange at BDIX 6th Nov. 2004 |
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A five days long hand-on training session on the different
technical aspects of the Internet Exchange in Bangladesh has
started at the BDIX premises of the SDNP Bangladesh at Panthapath
from November 26, 2004. Mr. Philip Smith, CISCO Consultant
and Mr. Gaurab Raj Upadhaya, PCH Consultant are providing
the training to the BDIX personnel, including the system administrators
of the connected ISPs, and a few ISPs by the invitation of
ISPAB. |
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| 6th
Nov. 2004. |
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Press
Briefing on Internet Exchange |
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In the press briefing, current status of the
Internet Exchange (www.bdix.net), its advantages and benefits
to the Internet community were discussed through a power point
presentation.
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| 26th
Oct. 2004 |
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SDNP
organized a Three Day Workshop On “Capacity Building
by Using Internet” at Cox’s Bazar |
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SDNP organized a three day long workshop at
Cox’s Bazar, at its Chittagong Regional Node. It was
a one of the series of workshop, which has been recently organized
by SDNP at the regional stations among its various other activities.
The workshop was intended to raise the ICT expertise at the
grass root level stakeholders. Local journalists, academics,
and NGO personalities attended the workshop.
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12th Sep. 2004 |
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Training
Workshop in Barisal Regional Node of SDNP |
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Training Workshop in Barisal Regional Node of SDNP
SDNP Organized a three days training workshop on "Use
of Internet for Professional" and "Introduction
of Email & Internet Browsing".
Professionals from local Media, NGOs, Educational Institutes
attended in the three days workshop. Local Media and Participants
appreciated the training programme.
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1st April 2004 |
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Satkhira
Press Club facilitated a computer with internet connectivity |
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A multimedia
computer with Internet connectivity has been donated by
SDNP Bangladesh an UNDP funded project, on 1st
April 2004 to Satkhira Press Club. Satkhira regional node
has provided the access to Satkhira Press Club. SDNP's Khulna
regional node has been located at the CPP outlet of the
BDRCS at Satkhira, a strategic location for disaster prevention,
environmental awareness and grass root level capacity development.
Mr G
M Monirul Islam Mini the president of the press club
chaired the informal programme. System Administrator of
SDNP Project Mr Riton Kumar Roy, Vice President of the Press
Club Mr Mohsin Hossain Bablu, General Secretary Md Ali Shujon,
Executive member and executive editor of “Juger Barta” Mr
Habibur Rahaman Hobi were also spoke on the occasion.
Mr Arifuzzaman SDNP Engineer and local news paper journalists
were also present among others. This activity is a part
of the media program of SDNP Bangladesh. This is a joint
collaboration programme of the National Press Club Bangladesh
and SDNP Bangladesh. |
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6th March 2004 |
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Cox’s
Bazar press Club is online |
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ACox’s
Bazar Press club has got connected with Chittagong regional
node of SDNP Bangladesh, which has been established at the
Cox's Bazar CPP office of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society.
The regional node started to operate from March 05, 2004.
A
multimedia computer with Internet connectivity has been
donated by SDNP Bangladesh on 6th March 2004 to Cox’s Bazar
Press Club to facilitate local journalists of that region
for prompt delivery of news and information nationally and
internationally. From now on the journalists of Cox’s Bazar
will not have to dial NWD to connect to Internet. They can
readily connect to the Chittagong Regional Node of SDNP
BD by making local calls. This activity is a part of the
media program of SDNP Bangladesh. This is a joint collaboration
programme of the National Press Club Bangladesh and SDNP
Bangladesh. |
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18th February 2004 |
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Barisal
Press club gets connected with SDNP Barisal Regional node |
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SDNP Barisal regional node provided a Internet connectivity
to Barisal Press Club on 18th February 2004. Barisal Press
Club has now online with Internet connectivity through SDNP
Bangladesh’s Barisal regional node at the CPP (Cyclone Preparedness
Programme)of Bangladesh Red Crescent society (BDRCS) in Barisal.
As part of the media programme they have been given a set
of multimedia PC with internet connectivity, so that the local
journalists can easily access the internet by making calls.
This programme is jointly collaborated by SDNP Bangladesh
and Barisal Press Club.
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25th January 2004 |
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MOU signing between Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and SDNP
Bangladesh |
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MOU signing between Bangladesh
Red Crescent Society and SDNP Bangladesh |
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A
MOU signing ceremony was held on 25th January 2004. Mr AFM
Obaidur Rahman, Secretary General of Bnagladesh Red Crescent
Society (BDRCS) and Dr M Asaduzzaman Project Director of
SDNP have signed the MOU. Among others Mr Fazlul Wahab,
Director, Cyclone Preparedness Program(CPP) and Dr M Hakikur
Raman Project Coordinator of SDNP were present.
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11 March 2004 |
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PRSP Discussion Workshop was
webcasted by SDNP Bangladesh |
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A
day long open discussion session on PRSP was held at the Abdur
Rob Serniabat auditorium of Teachers Training College, Barisal
on March 11, 2004. The PRSP Opening Ceremony was instantly
webcasted by the SDNP Bangladesh ( www.sdnpbd.org/prsp/
) team through their Barisal Regional Node situated at the
Bangladesh Red Crescent Society office in Barisal. |
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8 December 2003 |
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Orientation
Programme |
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Orientation
Programme
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An orientation
programme was held on 8 December 2003 regarding internet
service of BAU-Mymensingh Regional Centre in BAU Library.
Dr. Md. Hakikur Rahman, Project Co-Ordinator of SDNP-Bangladesh
was the speaker. Mr. Abdul Gafur Dewan, BAU Librarian Presided
the Programme. Deans, Head of Departments, teachers and Heads
of Sections attended the orientation Programme. About 60 participants
were attended. Friendly discussion was held and suggestions
were entertained to develop the Regional Centre. Dr. hakik
said and hoped that they are working hardly for developing
the system and it will come up to satisfaction very shortly.
Lastly Professor Dr. A.T.M. Ziauddin, President of the Internet
Management Committee supplemented Dr. Hakik to some matters
relating to the service. Mr. Reazul Hannan Md. Yusuf, Deputy
Librarian (Doc) and Regional Support Staff of SDNP conducted
the orientation programme. At the end tea was given for refreshment. |
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November 13th, 2003 |
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Inauguration of Millennium Development
Goals Bangla Portal |
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On November 13th,
the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) of
Bangladesh has launched their MDG portal (www.mdgbangla.org)
in Bangla. The inaugural ceremony was held at the National
Press Club and it was launched by Mr Shajahan Siraj MP and
the Hon’ble Minister of Environment and forest. As the chief
guest of the ceremony he lauded the role of SDNBD in developing
the timely and needful portal on MDG and he also informed
about the recent progress of the government, specially on
the environment issues. Elimination of two wheelers from Dhaka
city and ban on polythene are two important steps taken by
his ministry. more... |
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| July
31, 2003 |
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Setting up of an
Internet Exchange in Bangladesh |
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A workshop was held on “Setting
up of an Internet Exchange in Bangladesh” at BIDS Conference
room on July 31, 2003. Bill
Woodcock and Gourab Raj Upadhaya of Packet Clearing House
(www.pch.net)
delivered keynote presentations in this issue.
The
workshop was focused on
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Benefit
of Internet Exchange (IX) and it’s necessity
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Goal
of an IX in the content of Bangladesh.
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Background,
Technical aspects, and Solution Analysis.
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Success
stories in other countries, established through assistance
of PCH
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Edge
of Technology implementation and any drawback.
Among
others, personnel from major Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) of Dhaka attended the workshop. The whole session
was moderated by Dr. M. Hakikur Rahman, PC, SDNP. |
| 8
June 2003 |
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Sustainable
Development Networking Programme (SDNP) of Bangladesh Institute
of Development Studies (BIDS) hold a ceremony for the launching
of CD on the occasion of the World Environment Day on 8th
June, 2003 at 4.00 PM at National Press Club Media Center.
Prof.
M. Maniruzzaman Mia, former Vice Chancellor, Dhaka University
and Convener Committee for Finalization of the National
Water Management Plan attended the ceremony as the chief
guest. He said that if we fail to supply pure drinking water
to the mass people then all the initiatives regarding water
development will bring us a total failure. He also said
that every day so many children are dying due to shortage
of pure drinking water that if twenty jumbo jet planes have
crashed every day, it would not have caused that many deaths.
Mr. Sabihuddin, the Secretary, Ministry of Environment and
Forest and National Programme Director of SEMP presided
over the ceremony and gave his speech. Among
others Mr. Reajuddin Ahmed, President, Jatiya Press Club
(Special Guest) Dr. M. Aminul Islam, Sustainable Development
Advisor, UNDP (Special Guest) gave their respective speeches. Dr.
M. Asaduzzaman, the Research Director, BIDS and the Project
Director, SDNP welcomed the guests at the beginning of the
CD launching ceremony. After official launching of the CD
by the Chief Guest, Prof. M. Maniruzzaman Mia, a brief show
was conducted by the Project Coordinator of SDNP, Dr. M.
Hakikur Rahman. |
| 26
May 2003 |
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A
workshop was held at the BIDS Conference Room on Sustainable
Development Information (SDI) Databank.
The day long workshop was formally inaugurated by the Project
Director of SDNP, Dr. M. Asaduzzaman. After the inauguration,
a brief presentation on the current status of SDNP was given
by the Project Coordinator, Dr. M. Hakikur Rahman. During
the interactive workshop sessions, the Database Manager
of SDNP Mr. Habibur Rahman, shared the SDI Databank on the
Development Issues, Browsing Content, Searching,
Content Uploading, and other issues related
to the databank. The lively interactive sessions were participated
by the Sub Implementing
Agencies of SEMP. |
| 7
April 2003 |
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A
workshop was held at the BIDS Conference Room on development
of the
Dynamic Web site for SEMP.
The day long workshop was formally inaugurated
by the Project Director of SDNP, Dr. M. Asaduzzaman. After
the inauguration, a brief presentation on the current status
of SDNP was given by the Project Coordinator, Dr. M. Hakikur
Rahman. During the interactive workshop sessions, the Web
Designer of SDNP Mr. Tauhiduzzaman, shared dynamic web site
on the overall design, proforma, standardization of data format,
main menu, and other issues related to the site. The lively
interactive sessions were participated by the Sub Implementing
Agencies of SEMP. |
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| 13
March 2003 |
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Launching
of South West Region School of SDNP School Programme
The lead school
of South-West region under SDNP School Programme was launched
on March 13, 2003 at Badshah Faisal Institute, New Town,
Jessore.
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| 12
March 2003 |
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The
remote South-Western press club is connected to SDNBD
Under
the media programme, SDNP Bangladesh has provided a connectivity
to the Jessore Press Club on March 12, 2003 in a simple
ceremony. |
| 12
January 2003 |
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Opening of First Regional Node of SDNP at BAU
In order
to outreach SDN’s activities in the regional stations, the
first regional node has been selected to be at Mymensingh.
Being the largest education and research institute in Mymensingh,
the project has selected the Bangladesh Agricultural University
BAU as the possible host institute for setting up the regional
node. The inauguration ceremony will be jointly organized
by Bangladesh Agriculture University ( BAU)
and Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP)
of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) which
will be formally opened by Hon’ble Minister for Environment
and Forest Mr. Shahjahan Siraj MP. Click
for more... |
| 11
November 2002 |
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BSS
Financial Information Service (BFIS) launched
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the national
news agency, on 11 November 2002 launched its new financial
news window styled as `BSS Financial Information Service
(BFIS)' to serve the country's trade and industry, banking
and finance. |
| 26
October, 2002 |
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BSS
SDNP
MOU |
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BSS
Financial Information Service (BFIS)-SDNP MoU
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
(BSS), the national news agency of the country, today entered
into an agreement with Sustainable Development Netweoking
Project (SDNP), a BIDS project funded by UNDP, with the
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). SDNP, under
the MoU would extend technical support to BSS for its project,
BSS Financial Information Service (BFIS) to be launched
shortly. |
| 6
October, 2002 |
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Wireless
net strides Bangladesh The
computer lab at the Bangladesh Agriculture University in
Mymensingh is little more than a building site. The only
sign of any kind of technology is a tall radio mast on the
roof of this leading agricultural college. But once the
work is completed, the staff and students here will enjoy
fast internet access via a wireless link to the capital,
Dhaka, more than 100 kilometres away.
The university
is one in a group of institutions of higher education due
to be hooked up to the net using wireless technology, in
a project (SDNP Bangladesh) funded by the United Nations
Development Programme, (UNDP). |
| September
23, 2002 |
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ccTLD
Name Server Training
Organised by: World Wide Alliance of Top Level Domain-names
and SDNP Bangladesh. ccTLD Secretariat has initiated a ccTLD
Name Server Training Program. The goal is to outreach
and help those small ccTLDs to get up to speed in operating
Name Server efficiently and effectively. There
will be discussion and update on ICANN root server and IANA
functions so that they all have a clear understanding. |
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August 2, 2002 |
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BPATC Connected
to SDNP main node.
Bangladesh Public Administration
Training Centre (BPATC) established Local Area Network is
connected through a 64Kbps radio link to the main node of
SDNP, BIDS. BPATC is located about 15Km away from the main
base station. |
| July
27, 2002 |
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Draft
E-Readiness and ICT Need Assessment Report for Bangladesh
One day dicsussion workshop
on "Draft E-Readiness and ICT Need Assessment Report
for Bangladesh" held at BIDS Conference Room on July
27, 2002. |
| June
25, 2002 |
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SDNP Developed Website for Conservation of Biodiversity, Marine
Park Establishment and Eco tourism Development at Saint Martin's
Island SDNP
Bangladesh Web team has developed another professional website
for Conservation of Biodiversity, Marine Park Establishment
and Eco tourism Development at Saint Martin’s Island. |
| June
5, 2002 |
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Cyber Cafe inaugurated
by Mr. Sabihuddin Ahmed, Secretary MoEF |
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World
Environment Day Cyber Cafe at National Press Club
The Jatiya Press Club in
collaboration, with the Sustainable Development Networking
Programme (SDNP) opened a three‑day Cyber Cafe for
the club members yesterday. Also a CD on World Environment
Day was published.
Access
the WED Special
CD |
| May
5, 2002 |
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Information Minister Tariqul
Islam Inaugurating BSS Web |
|
BSS
Web
SDNP Bangladesh Web team has
developed another professional website for Bangladesh Sangbad
Sangstha (BSS), the government managed news agency of Bangladesh. |
| May
6, 2002 |
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Rajshahi
City Press Club Cyber Cafe
Prof. Faisul Islam Faruqee
Vice Chancellor, Rajshahi University inaugurated theCyber
Cafe at Rajshahi City Press Club (RCPC). |
| May
5, 2002 |
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Cyber Cafe at Dinajpur Press club
District Commissioner of Dinajpur
inaugurated Cyber Cafe at Dinajpur Press club. |
| June
3-4, 2002 |
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BSWJF
Workshop
Seminar on computer literacy for
Bangladesh Science Writers and Journalists held at National
Press Club |
| March
2, 2002 |
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Sandhani
Blood Bank Website
A Joint Activity of Sandhani Dhaka Medical College Unit &
SDNP.
ETV Coverage on Sandhani Web in Real Video Format
|
| February
15, 2002 |
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VLIS
A Virtual Library Management
System Developed by SDNP Bangladesh (6 libraries now online)
Workshop
document on VLIS |
