Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 to kicks off June 15

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BSS, Dhaka :
The government is going to organise a three-day Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015, one of the biggest ever expositions in the ICT sector of the country, at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) from June 15.
ICT Division in collaboration with Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) will organise the event which is expected to be inaugurated by President Abdul Hamid.
After successful completion of Digital World during the last three consecutive years, the ICT Division is also partnering with private organisation to arrange Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 to showcase ICT manufacturing products and sharing knowledge and innovations,” Secretary of the information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Shyam Sunder Sikder told a press conference here today.
ICT Division and BCS jointly organised the press conference held at the BCS Dhanmondi office. Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) S M Ashraful Islam, BCS President A H M Mahfuzul Arif and its Vice-President Mazibur Rahman spoke at the function.
Stressing the need for enforcing joint effort, the ICT secretary said the government alone cannot make successful the dream of Digital Bangladesh as charted out in its Vision 2021. The private sector must have to come forward and join hands with the government to turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 through implementing Digital Bangladesh, he added.
Sikder said, “The Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 would enable us to know the hurdles on way to advance the ICT sector and make it possible to remove that.”
Ashraf said government has put stress on building a manufacturing ecosystem and setting up Research and Development (R&D) to boost the country’s ICT sector.
“The assembling plants for manufacturing small devices like mobile phone will be established which would create employment generation for thousands,” he said, adding that the ICT Expo-2015 will create an opportunity to showcase the manufacturing items of local and foreign companies.
The BCS president said the Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 will be organised on 50,000 square feet space of BICC and nearly 400,000 visitors are expected to visit the exposition.
The exposition would be assemblage of local and international experts who will share and exchange their knowledge on ICT advancement and challenges in the seminars to be organised during the three-day exposition, he added.
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