BSS, Dhaka :
Aayesha Siddiqua, had been freelancing since 2010, and finally went full-time three years back. She writes articles on the Net. For her, the blog or article writing wasn’t the flexible lifestyle that it was thought to be but a vehicle to get ahead in life on her own terms.
“In a traditional corporate environment it can take several years to get promoted into a position where you have breadth and diversity of work,” she said, adding that with freelancing she could choose the work that interested her.
“I started freelancing in 2010. It wasn’t a conscious career move but technology has made the trend possible because it’s easily accessible. You can work on your computer while you’re on holiday, weekends or any time at home,” Aayesha said.
“Outsourcing is an open job field for everyone. Not only students but also older people and housewives could freelance. They would have an extra advantage if they took outsourcing training “, said Monir Hossain, chairman, Creative IT, a pioneer IT training institute of the country.
“Without training it is very difficult to be established in the freelance market because increasingly it was becoming competitive. It is popular because there is no investment required,” he said.
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Zunayed Ahmed Pulok, MP, explained that the local opportunities for tech-savvy people, particularly women, were no less.
“Kaliakoir hi-tech park would need 70,000 IT engineers in the next ten years and the government was considering expanding its IT scholarship programme for women who had completed their secondary education,” he added. “The British development agency, Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank were funding the programme,”the state minister said.
“A good number of people, half of them women, have completed freelance courses from various IT organizations on Graphics, SEO and Networking but we need more because the government is going to launch “Learning-and-Earning Program” at upazilas to create 55,000 freelancers at the grassroots level”, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Shyam Sundar Sikder said.
“Of the total number of freelancers 20,000 would be women who will also get basic IT literacy training at union and upazila levels along with outsourcing training,” he said, adding that we have emphasized on creating women freelancers as they could earn money staying with their family and empower themselves in the process.
Aayesha Siddiqua, had been freelancing since 2010, and finally went full-time three years back. She writes articles on the Net. For her, the blog or article writing wasn’t the flexible lifestyle that it was thought to be but a vehicle to get ahead in life on her own terms.
“In a traditional corporate environment it can take several years to get promoted into a position where you have breadth and diversity of work,” she said, adding that with freelancing she could choose the work that interested her.
“I started freelancing in 2010. It wasn’t a conscious career move but technology has made the trend possible because it’s easily accessible. You can work on your computer while you’re on holiday, weekends or any time at home,” Aayesha said.
“Outsourcing is an open job field for everyone. Not only students but also older people and housewives could freelance. They would have an extra advantage if they took outsourcing training “, said Monir Hossain, chairman, Creative IT, a pioneer IT training institute of the country.
“Without training it is very difficult to be established in the freelance market because increasingly it was becoming competitive. It is popular because there is no investment required,” he said.
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Zunayed Ahmed Pulok, MP, explained that the local opportunities for tech-savvy people, particularly women, were no less.
“Kaliakoir hi-tech park would need 70,000 IT engineers in the next ten years and the government was considering expanding its IT scholarship programme for women who had completed their secondary education,” he added. “The British development agency, Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank were funding the programme,”the state minister said.
“A good number of people, half of them women, have completed freelance courses from various IT organizations on Graphics, SEO and Networking but we need more because the government is going to launch “Learning-and-Earning Program” at upazilas to create 55,000 freelancers at the grassroots level”, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Shyam Sundar Sikder said.
“Of the total number of freelancers 20,000 would be women who will also get basic IT literacy training at union and upazila levels along with outsourcing training,” he said, adding that we have emphasized on creating women freelancers as they could earn money staying with their family and empower themselves in the process.
