The 10 Artificial Intelligence-powered prototypes, developed by the country’s private sector companies in collaboration with the government, will go for commercial run soon. Leveraging ICT Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division provided various supports including using BCC’s AI lab 2 Center of Excellence (CoE) and engaging eGL-ISS faculty of National University of Singapore (NUS) for mentoring the development of 10 prototypes, official sources said on Tuesday.
All 10 prototypes including safe drive app to reduce accidents, Queue Pro for mask detection technology in ticketing kiosk, easy.jobs for automatic scoring of job seekers, sbiCloud for identifying the best product/asset for the Ultra Poor People and predicting good/ bad loan based on the deposited installment are at piloting stage and waiting for commercial run soon, they said.
The prototypes are: Drive Safe by Zantrik, easy.jobs by A.R. Com, QuePro by Business Automation Limited, Recruit Gene by Leads Corporation, Work care by CPSD, sbiCloud by BRAC IT Services Limited, KONA Digital Financial Services by Kona Software Limited, Disinformation and Brand Reputation on Social Media by Intelligence Machine, Technohaven e-Flow by Technohaven Company Limited and Khaodao by Graaho Software.
“The government is encouraging the private sector to come up with frontier technology-based innovations which are beneficial for the people,” said Executive Director of BCC Parthapratim Deb.
He said the ten AI-powered prototypes developed by the 10 companies are the outcome of government’s sincere efforts to build innovation echo system and startups through providing supports and cooperation to the private sector. “We hope the ten prototypes will benefit people as all those are very useful in our everyday life,” Deb said.
LICT Project Director Md. Rezaul Karim said the government engages the eGL-ISS faculty of NSU to produce AI-powered quality innovative solutions on ten issues. The SafeDrive app, one of the much-expected prototypes will help reduce accidents on roads, he added.
Policy Adviser of LICT Project Sami Ahmed said Bangladesh has already started journey towards utilizing technologies of fourth industrial revolution with a view to contributing to digital economy. “We cannot sit idle at a time when fourth industrial revolution is evolving at an exponential rather than linear pace,” he added. According to report titled: ‘Prototype Development Program using Artificial Intelligence for Capacity Development of Local IT/ITES Companies’ prepared by LICT, piloting of the 10 prototypes are going on and the companies are expected to go for commercial run of the prototypes after successfully end of the piloting.
The report said the SafeDrive App will reduce accidents by implementing a real time driving monitoring and guidance system using AI and detecting sleepiness and dizziness of drivers while easy.jobs will score for the jobseekers automatically.
Queue Pro is an effective and systematic que management system designed to ensure disciplined and guided customer experience and there is a mask detection technology in ticketing kiosk, the report said adding the Recruit Gene App is an AI-based solution that assist to automating the hiring process to make it faster, less expensive, and easier to manage higher volume of candidates.
