We can't blame the Government. It is not sufficient to build something; it must have return on investment. Educating people ? Well it can be said whats wrong with pencil paper/slates/using a standard PC/Laptop on a borrowed time?
If you make a strong business case a foreign investor will jump in or so I think.
Incubation center, business park, ideas and now Technology Park effort by QA University - it will NOT work. The reason we have not a single killer start-up is that we don't know or can't tell what product makes a sound business case.
Bangladesh ? who can afford even $35 tablet ? It is an excellent hype and good way to show that they are talented to do this .... well done. But what next ?
From: "tbadsha@yahoo.com" <tbadsha@yahoo.com>
To: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" <pakgrid@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: Dr. Habib Khan <drhabibk@gmail.com>; Habib khan <drhabibk@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] Bangladesh Made First Domestically Laptop
Credit to them for taking this initiative but please read carefully the $35 is a subsidized price. Computer and electronic manufacturing is a volume business and even OLPC had a hard time competing with the likes of ASUS and Intel. Having said that, I must add that they should be given credit for using ICT for education. OLPC and "Hole in the Wall" are two successful initiatives to show that when children are given a computing environment they tend to learn by themselves (self plus peer learning). Unfortunately, Dr. Habib and I could not get either the provincial governments or the Federal Government to get interested.
- Tariq
From: Junaid Zubairi <zubairi@fredonia.edu>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [pakgrid] Bangladesh Made First Domestically Laptop
Such projects can be undertaken easily in Pakistan, given the chip design expertise available locally. When I conducted FPGA design workshop in Rawalpindi several years ago, I found some people very well grounded in chip design. I also visited a few private companies in Islamabad who were designing PCB's for some of their projects.
Junaid
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:29 AM, ahmad waqas <aws_72@yahoo.com> wrote:
AoAWhere are we? Below are the next door neighboursAH
From: Faisal Mateen <mateenfaisal@hotmail.com>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:52 PM
Subject: [pakgrid] Bangladesh Made First Domestically Laptop
http://www.columnpk.com/bangladesh-made-first-domestically-laptop-named-doel/
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