Economic Reporter :
A three-day “National Startup Camp 2.0” of Student to Startup: Chapter 2 has been launched with a view to find out young entrepreneurs having innovative ideas so that they can contribute to the country’s development.
With the slogan of ‘My innovation, My Dream’, the national contest was inaugurated at Sheikh Hasina National Youth Centre at the city’s outskirt Savar on Thursday.
Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) is organizing the competition for the second time.
Senior Secretary of Information and Communication Technology Division NM Zeaul Alam attended the inaugural ceremony as the chief guest. Project Director (Joint-Secretary) of iDEA Project Syed Mojibul Huq chaired the function while Deputy Project Director of iDEA Kazi Hosna Ara gave the welcome address.
“We have come a long way in building digital Bangladesh. Now we are on the path to build a ‘Quality Digital Bangladesh’,” Zeaul Alam said.
The government, he said, has set four pillars to make Digital Bangladesh and one of them is human resource development. One of the aims of iDEA project is to increase this capability and also human resource development, he added.
Ashikur Rahman Rupok, co-coordinator of Student to Startup program, conducted the session for the participants after the inaugural session.
Earlier, the contest started its journey on September 15, 2019 at ICT Tower in the city’s Agargaon area. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak attended it as the chief guest.
The promotional campaigns were organized in more than 100 academic institutes and students registered through online registration process at the contest. About 2500 Startups submitted their ideas at the contest and then 75 startups have been selected preliminarily from university campus pitching round from 24 venues of 8 divisions and later invited to attend the National Startup Camp.
A three-day “National Startup Camp 2.0” of Student to Startup: Chapter 2 has been launched with a view to find out young entrepreneurs having innovative ideas so that they can contribute to the country’s development.
With the slogan of ‘My innovation, My Dream’, the national contest was inaugurated at Sheikh Hasina National Youth Centre at the city’s outskirt Savar on Thursday.
Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) is organizing the competition for the second time.
Senior Secretary of Information and Communication Technology Division NM Zeaul Alam attended the inaugural ceremony as the chief guest. Project Director (Joint-Secretary) of iDEA Project Syed Mojibul Huq chaired the function while Deputy Project Director of iDEA Kazi Hosna Ara gave the welcome address.
“We have come a long way in building digital Bangladesh. Now we are on the path to build a ‘Quality Digital Bangladesh’,” Zeaul Alam said.
The government, he said, has set four pillars to make Digital Bangladesh and one of them is human resource development. One of the aims of iDEA project is to increase this capability and also human resource development, he added.
Ashikur Rahman Rupok, co-coordinator of Student to Startup program, conducted the session for the participants after the inaugural session.
Earlier, the contest started its journey on September 15, 2019 at ICT Tower in the city’s Agargaon area. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak attended it as the chief guest.
The promotional campaigns were organized in more than 100 academic institutes and students registered through online registration process at the contest. About 2500 Startups submitted their ideas at the contest and then 75 startups have been selected preliminarily from university campus pitching round from 24 venues of 8 divisions and later invited to attend the National Startup Camp.
