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Reiterating his commitment to further help flourish country’s ICT sector, Prime Minister's Information and Communication Technology Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy today said it is his personal goal to make Bangladesh’s IT export exceeding its garment export, reports BSS.
'I feel honored to bring the vision 2021 to light. In just six years, we have transformed the country. Six years ago, there was nothing digital in Bangladesh. Our internet penetration was just .3 percent. Today it has crossed 30 percent. We have laid six submarine cables as backup so that our internet connectivity does not get cut off,' he said.
Joy came up with the observation while inaugurating BPO (business process outsourcing) Summit, 2015 at city’s Hotel Sonargaon this morning. Organized by ICT Division and BACCO, Bangladesh Association of Call Center & Outsourcing, the function was presided over by State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP.
FBCCI president Abdul Matlub Ahmed, ICT secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder, Imran Ahmed, MP, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of posts, telecommunications and information technology ministry and WITSA chairman Santiago Gutierrez addressed the function, among others.
“Six years ago, when we started our journey of Digital Bangladesh, the total export from the ICT sector was 26 million dollars, total employment in the ICT sector was a couple of thousand programmers only. Now the yearly export from the ICT sector has crossed 300 million dollars, around two lakh jobs have been generated in this sector, of which more than 25 thousand employments have been generated in this BPO sector. There was no sector called BPO six years ago in Bangladesh,” Joy said.
The Summit agenda has been carefully crafted to raise and address a variety of issues that Bangladesh faces to emerge as a global outsourcing hub aligned with the Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021. It also paves the way for industry experts and clients to meet under one roof and exchange their ideas and thoughts for an enhanced vision and making new steps towards innumerable possibilities.
More than 20 thousand people including corporate, institutional and individual buyers will attend the two-day summit.
The organizers are expecting over 50 thousand core community visitors, while more than 10 foreign speakers will share their knowledge and expertise in the seminars. There is facility of on-the-spot recruitment in the summit.
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