BSS :
When young entrepreneurs are craving for a place to launch their self-motivated idea for mass producing material of the future, they are set to bank on Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Centers (SKITTIC) that have become magnet for high-tech startups.
The centers are being set up across the country under a priority base project to create an environment for producing technological materials to help Bangladeshi pioneers hit a technological wall.
Forward-looking business people now look for leading Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Centers to pursue their ambitions to transition of different districts of the country to global centers of technological innovation.
Setting up of the incubation centers have already made different parts of the country suitable for IT sector growth to create rooms for the new startups to dominate the global e-commerce.
Developing technological hubs in the country require generous policy support from the government, a pool of talent and easy access to venture capital, experts say.
According to the officials, a total of 64 incubation centers will be set up in 64 districts across the country under the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority mainly aimed at developing students at SSC and HSC levels as skilled manpower in IT.
The centers will build bridges between academia and the IT industry by developing new entrepreneurs in the information and communication technology sector, creating huge opportunities for self-employment of the youth of Bangladesh in the IT / ITES sector, they said.
The centers should be reputed as startup hubs to attract a raft of venture investors, both foreign and domestic, to make those as contenders for the title of Silicon Valley of Bangladesh.
While visiting the incubation center set up at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Hi-Tech Park (BSMHTP) in Rajshahi recently, it was observed that the government has taken a project involving Taka 350 crore to transform the northwestern city into Silicon city, facilitating technological infrastructures.
BSMHTP Project Director ATM Fazlul Haque said the incubation center has been set up aiming at incubating startups as entrepreneurs to move as regular enterprises to the Joy Silicon Tower, a 10-storey building being built at the BSMHTP.
