Regional Open Source Software Communities: The View From Dhaka, Bangladesh | Digital Infrastructure Research and Development, March 29th 2022

"In the past five years, there’s been a Cambrian explosion of “regional communities” in Dhaka, emerging around not just open source projects but proprietary technologies or platforms. This is a result of multiple trends. Some of these are specific to Dhaka: growing interest in the computer science discipline, a desire for students to add extra-curricular expertise to their resumes, a lackluster job market creating additional pressure to do so, and few modern programming resources for students to build their skills. But they are also the result of globalization and the internet: companies entering international markets, seeking product ambassadors and software localizers, recognizing the pool of volunteer labour available to perform these task, coordinating them virtually. Open source projects have not been an exception to these trends, and may have been accelerated them...."