BSS, Dhaka :
The government is planning to create entrepreneurs in the upazilas to expand e-commerce and create employment for the computer and IT literate youths, official sources said. They said the entrepreneurs now being developed under the Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme (FEDP) in 64 districts will provide training for creating entrepreneurs in the country’s 480 upazilas.
“Initially we want at least five entrepreneurs in each upazila to work forming a group of freelancers for outsourcing job and run e- commerce,” Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan told BSS recently. He said a good number of youths of rural areas are taking computer literacy training from the Union Information Service Centers (UISCs), Polytechnic, Vocational and private training institutions each year and the entrepreneurs at upazila level could catch these computer and IT-literate youths who have already received freelancing outsourcing training from the Learning and Eearning Programme to run their business. “The upazila level entrepreneurs development training will be launched soon after completion of the district level training by this year,” Khan said adding the entrepreneurs at district and upazila will be encouraged to form a group of freelancers for outsourcing job and run e-Commerce at their respective centers. ICT Secretary said Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme of ICT Division is the third of the four- step action plan chalked out to create IT professionals and IT industrialists across the country.
Elaborating the four steps he said the first step is:
creating computer-literate youths by providing computer training at UISCs, creating freelancers under Learning and Earning Programme is the second and developing entrepreneurs under FEDP and creating IT industrialists under Entrepreneurs to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) programme are the third and fourth steps respectively.
Project Director of Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme Dr. Mohammad Abul Hasan said as part of the plan to create entrepreneur up to upazila level, the government has decided to give recognition to the district level entrepreneurs who are being provided with trainings under the FEDP.
The government is planning to create entrepreneurs in the upazilas to expand e-commerce and create employment for the computer and IT literate youths, official sources said. They said the entrepreneurs now being developed under the Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme (FEDP) in 64 districts will provide training for creating entrepreneurs in the country’s 480 upazilas.
“Initially we want at least five entrepreneurs in each upazila to work forming a group of freelancers for outsourcing job and run e- commerce,” Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan told BSS recently. He said a good number of youths of rural areas are taking computer literacy training from the Union Information Service Centers (UISCs), Polytechnic, Vocational and private training institutions each year and the entrepreneurs at upazila level could catch these computer and IT-literate youths who have already received freelancing outsourcing training from the Learning and Eearning Programme to run their business. “The upazila level entrepreneurs development training will be launched soon after completion of the district level training by this year,” Khan said adding the entrepreneurs at district and upazila will be encouraged to form a group of freelancers for outsourcing job and run e-Commerce at their respective centers. ICT Secretary said Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme of ICT Division is the third of the four- step action plan chalked out to create IT professionals and IT industrialists across the country.
Elaborating the four steps he said the first step is:
creating computer-literate youths by providing computer training at UISCs, creating freelancers under Learning and Earning Programme is the second and developing entrepreneurs under FEDP and creating IT industrialists under Entrepreneurs to Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) programme are the third and fourth steps respectively.
Project Director of Freelancers to Entrepreneurs Development Programme Dr. Mohammad Abul Hasan said as part of the plan to create entrepreneur up to upazila level, the government has decided to give recognition to the district level entrepreneurs who are being provided with trainings under the FEDP.
