The host institution was familiar as I had visited it before. The people that I had to work with were mostly new but most are trained overseas and interaction and collaboration was not a problem. I have known the president and others in the administration at North South University for some time. Contact with the outside world used to be the biggest problem overseas in the developing world. Things have moved amazingly fast to bring many of these countries on the information superhighway.
Email is a household world in major cities in Bangladesh.
Despite having no mail for almost a month due to political turmoil, I was able to communicate with my secretary and dept. A large number of foreigners working in Dhaka have email addresses either at work or at home. Please recount occasions on which you addressed or spoke to local audience, participated in cultural or professional meetings, or wrote for local publications. Faculty and Students at North South University, June19, 1996. Bangladesh Bank, Executive Development Seminar Series, with the Deputy Governor, Dr. Sohrabuddin Ahmad presiding.