Saturday, May 31, 2026 · DhakaResnova Intelligence · Vol. II
Technology, explained by the people who build it

Resnova Intelligence

Reporting on the technology shaping Bangladesh — and the world it is built for.
Lead story
Sovereignty9 min read

Why Bangladesh is betting its AI future on sovereign infrastructure

As nations race to host their own models, the National Data Centre in Kaliakair becomes the quiet center of a much larger question: who owns the intelligence that governs a country?

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Latest dispatches

7 articles
Edge AI

The quiet revolution of running AI at the edge — on a $99 board

Cloud inference made headlines. But the most consequential AI in Bangladesh is increasingly happening on small boards bo…

By Resnova Engineering7 min
Fintech

The $900 crore question: can technology bank the unbankable?

Bangladesh’s street vendors move billions in cash a year and almost none of it is recorded. A new generation of platform…

By Sheikh Shahid Adnan8 min
Computer Vision

Teaching machines to watch the city — responsibly

Computer vision is moving from novelty to civic infrastructure. The hard part was never the model. It is deciding what a…

By Resnova Engineering6 min
GovTech

The unglamorous work of turning paper into a state that works

No ribbon gets cut for digitizing a filing room. But the difference between a government that can answer a citizen in mi…

By Resnova Engineering7 min
Strategy

Why open source is a national strategy, not a cost-saving measure

The conversation about open source is usually about licence fees. The more important conversation is about whether a cou…

By Sheikh Shahid Adnan8 min
IoT

The 40-year-old protocol quietly running modern factories

While the industry chases 5G and the cloud, much of Bangladesh’s industrial automation still runs on RS-485 — a serial s…

By Resnova Engineering6 min
Opinion

The Global South does not have to import its digital future

For a generation, the assumption was that serious technology is built elsewhere and bought locally. A new generation of…

By Sheikh Shahid Adnan7 min
The briefing

Technology, without the noise.

One considered piece a week on the systems shaping Bangladesh and the world — sovereignty, AI, infrastructure, and the institutions that run them. No hype. No churn.