Uber in Dhaka

Uber to launch taxi service in Dhaka soon
For those who are familiar on what "Uber" is,  they will be excited to know that Uber is coming to Bangladesh. Having planned to launch this transport service for the last eight months, it is reported that Uber will hit Dhaka streets in a matter of weeks.

An American multinational online transportation network company, Uber have revolutionized transport in many cities. Using requests through an app, people can commute more easily to and from their destinations. Costs are based on either distance in a smooth ride, or travel time in typical Dhaka congested roads.

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The advent of E-Koshai

With the rise of E-commerce and the burgeoning of "smart" entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, the type of business is progressively expanding from product to service. When businesses make this transition, it is an indication of a tertiary stage of development, with service-based solutions overlapping commodity-based ones.

Online shopping has been growing popular throughout the years and with innovative packages offered during peak seasons, Eid is a target for most e-commerce businesses. Apart from all the other promotional products offered at discounts or attractive prices, other services have been seen to solve basic problems during Eid. The other biggest Islamic festival in the country, brings with it some regional and traditional issues that many a times entail the sufferings of the citizens.

A e-solution for the Koshai problem?
Discovering new business trends and current opportunities, businessmen have been quick to offer innovative solutions, this Eid in the form of "E-Koshai", a butcher service for all the livestock slaughtered during Eid-ul-Adha. Two such businesses have been identified. They claim in their social media that business this Eid has gone successfully. One of those, Sheba Platform Limited, had a supply of 158 three-member butcher teams covering the city with 17 supervisors throughout the Eid. Rated quite highly, the expert butchers cost Tk250 for every Tk1,000 of the cost of the animal. Medium skilled butchers cost Tk200 for the like. The other business, Quicknok, had 120 butcher team. They have maintained high standard by collecting information on these butchers around the city, including their NID.

Apps and games development institutes on way

A prospect of creating 2,000 new jobs in the IT industry is being planned with a vision to cross boundaries of our current economy. This is no revolution in the globe, but it certainly is a revolutionary prospect for Bangladesh. Apps and Games development is the new initiative for the ICT division of the government. A USD $100 bn global market, the extension of IT in this field will enable youths, the target employment demographic, to jump on board and drive the industry.

Training is being setup, costing around Tk 281 crore, utilizing 525 trainers, 8,750 app developers and 2,800 game animators, along with marketing and content experts, who will receive high-level training. Focus initially is towards the local 13 crore mobile users, who currently suffice their demand through software imports. This is the targetted turnaround, while tapping into local opportunities

BPO Summit 2015

An opportunity worth billions
A novel conference was held in Dhaka on December 9-10, 2015. It was called the "Business Process Outsourcing Summit 2015". An industry which is still in its early stages in Bangladesh, has been acknowledged and has been emphasized through this conference. The participating speakers who are experts in their field, discussed scaling up the BPO industry to US $1bn by 2021. They called for a road-map with collaborations of the industry and related policy support to achieve this.