Bangladesh developed IT infra on its own: Joy

Prime minister’s ICT affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy Wednesday said Bangladesh built its basic IT infrastructures on its own while it now strives for ensuring the country’s stake in the global arena through innovations.
‘I’m proud to say we did not outsource our digitization, we did not bring in foreign consultants [to build the IT infrastructure] . . . we did it on our own with our homegrown innovations, homegrown solutions,’ he told the inauguration of the country’s first ever ‘IT Incubator’ to extend financial support to small ICT entrepreneurs.
He said under the initiative of the Awami League government, the country launched the digitization campaign seven years ago, when the country completely lacked the basic infrastructures.
He said the past five-tenure of the government was spent to develop the basic infrastructure for the ICT while its current tenure was dedicated to develop the ICT industries for making the country’s room in the global arena of IT sector through innovations.
He appreciated IT industries for their efforts to build the backbone of the sector saying it was because of them ‘we are, where we are today’.
Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Annisul Huq, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) secretary general Houlin Zhao, state minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak, VimpelCom co-founder Augie K Fabela and Banglalink CEO Erik Aas also addressed the function.
Zhao appreciated the supportive environment created in Bangladesh for SMEs encouraging particularly the youngsters to launch their ventures expecting it to help accelerated growth supplementing development of other sectors as well.
ICT Division and Banglalink jointly initiated the IT Incubator as a platform to create digital entrepreneurship as a way to empower young people, give theme purpose and provide them with jobs and opportunities to be the part of global digital economy and society.

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