BSS, Dhaka :The government has undertaken a four-step action plan (FSAP) to create jobs in the IT sector and develop the entrepreneurs as IT industrialists.The FSAP made by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division are: creating computer literate youths through the 4,567 Union Information Service Centers (UISCs) and other educational institutions in the first step, developing computer literate youths to freelancers in the second and freelancers to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs to IT industrialists respectively in the third and fourth steps.”We’ve already started implementation of the FSAP . . . developing about one lac freelancers in the districts and upazilas under Learning and Earning Programme from the already-developed computer literate youths,” said innovator of FSAP and ICT Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan (N I Khan).While elaborating the action plan, Khan said the implementation of the second and third steps of FSAP is going on in full swing side by side across the country under the Learning and Earning and Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programmes.The fourth step-Entrepreneurs to IT Industrialists-is expected to begin sometimes in the early next year, N I Khan said, adding that the entrepreneurs will be provided space or land at Kaliakoir High-Tech Park and Jessore High-Tech Park, now under construction, to do business side by side with the foreign IT companies.”FSAP is not an ambitious, but a well-thought-out, rationale and visionary action plan to create employment and IT industrialists for boosting up the IT sector,” the ICT Secretary said.”Five years back no body thinks about the creation of freelancers at the districts and upazila levels, but now the reality is: freelancers have become self-employed and they are earning foreign currency,” he added.
