Our own laptop

Within a week, the first Bangladeshi assembled laptop and netbooks known as Doel will be on the market. The company Telephone Shilpa Sagstha (TSS), a public company is manufacturing the products. So far, there is one model of laptop and three models of netbooks, their costs varying from Takas 10,000 to 26,000. At the moment, 90% of the equipment for the devises are imported but within six months, this figure will drop down to 40%.
The goal of the government in launching such a product is that computers and technology can be more easily affordable for people. These laptops and netbooks were originally destined to be supplied to the public service sector, particularly to government educational institutions but due to a lack of instant demand, it has decided to sell them to private customers.
This is indeed a great achievement in the domain of technological advancement and the intent to equip government schools was a very forward thinking and useful one. However, some very important factors needed to be considered.
Firstly, even though the price range is quite reasonable for a mobile computer generally speaking, it is still a large budget for many in the country. Secondly, it not only a question of having the purchasing power for the device itself. What is also required is a significant power supply and a wifi connection (wireless system of connection to the internet), without which a portable computer is simply a typing devise. These aspects drive up the cost of electricity consumption significantly.
Despite the fact that there were no demands from government schools, a program to popularize and provide laptops and netbooks to selected schools for students whose families could not otherwise provide for their children to be technologically educated could have been a much more useful endeavor in the creation of a "Digital Bangladesh".