Economic Reporter :
Bangladesh ICT-Expo-2016 is set to kick off on March 3 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) to promote local hardware industry in efforts to transform Bangladesh into a leading manufacturing country.
“As part of our massive digitization campaign, we are giving emphasis on developing local hardware industry to make it an important partner of building Digital Bangladesh by 2021,” State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak told a press conference at the BICC here on Tuesday.
The three-day Bangladesh ICT-Expo is the largest hardware exposition in the country, he said, adding, “We are going to organise the mega hardware based show to give a further boost to the vision for building a technology advanced country.”
ICT Division and Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) in cooperation with different local and international ICT companies are jointly organising the ICT-Expo aiming to popularize local hardware brands at both local and international levels, a press release said.
ICT Division Secretary Shayam Sundar Sikdar and President of BCS AHM
Mahfuzul Arif, senior officials of the ICT Division, representatives of co-partner organisations were present, among others, at the press conference.
A total of 14 seminars and sessions will be held during the three-day ICT expo, where nearly a good number of IT experts and top officials of different foreign companies will participate. Local and international hardwire manufacturing companies are expected to participate in the ICT- expo.
