UNIVERSITIES in Bangladesh have recently begun shifting towards outcome-based education, a framework that prioritises student competencies, application-oriented learning and accountability in educational outcomes. While this change signals an encouraging response to the demands of the global economy and the fourth industrial revolution, a mismanaged...
The Bangladesh Industrial and Technical Assistance Center, with the supports of GOTT SDN BHD, Malaysia and MICRO MAX Technologies Limited Bangladesh, held a seminar on Artificial Intelligence to face the Fourth Industrial Revolution at the BITAC building in Dhaka on Saturday...
LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of agriculture, the first human intervention in the nature, emerged communities, which ultimately brought in pollution. Records show that civilisation has spoilt most of the land people lived on. Neolithic revolution caused changes in the...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, setting in across the world bringing about a new order dominated by technology, could well leave its impact, sooner or later, on Bangladesh even if it would opt to stay out of it. Bangladesh should, therefore, align itself towards the shift while there is still time as graduation of society into another industrial revolution will come...
SINCE the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, workers have had to contend with the inimical effects of technology on their jobs. From the power loom to the personal computer, each wave of automation has not only increased productivity, but also empowered the owners and managers who dictate how these technologies reshape the workplace. Today, workers worldwide are haunted by the specter of artificial intelligence...
IN WILLIAM Blake鈥檚 touching poems 鈥楾he Chimney Sweeper鈥� from his collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, he paints a sad picture of child labour during the Industrial Revolution. Blake describes little children, covered in soot, crying out 鈥榳eep, weep.鈥�...
Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation held a training workshop on the 4th Industrial Revolution on Wednesday, said a press release...