Chittagong Bureau :
A 3-day long 9th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST ) Conference -2014 concluded at Cox’sBazar recently putting emphasis on innovation and application of science and information technology (IT) to keep pace with the growing IT development of the competitive world.
As member of INFOST ,Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) organized the conference at a posh hotel in the beach city of Cox’s Bazar from October 21 last
Over 100 scientists and researchers from Korea, Russia, China, Mongolia and Indonesia and over 200 from home participated at the IFOST conference sharing knowledge and information and putting up their latest research on IT .
Addressing the concluding ceremony of the conference Chairman of Bangladesh University Grant Commission (UGC) Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury said remarkable advancement can be achieved in everywhere through application of the IT as chief guest .
Bangladesh government has taken up different steps for development of IT from grassroot levels including offices of public and private organizations and educational institutions. Universities are being brought under high-speed internet to speed up higher education and research activities in the country, said the UGC chairman.
Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan, CUET Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Jahangir Alam and Pro-VC Prof Md Rafiqul Alam were present as special guests at the ceremony presided over by conference organising committee Secretary and CUET Computer Science and Engineering Head Prof Dr Koushik Dev.
The speakers at the ceremony underscored the need for advancing ahead keeping pace with the rapidly changing global technology.
The IFOST conference held in the country for the first time would benefit all the participants through sharing of knowledge on science and information technology, they said.
Bangladesh is now ahead of many in different indexes and making progress with over six percent growth even amid various problems across the globe. Massive use of science and technology can take the country further ahead, said speakers.
Terming the conference as a timely and significant one they lauded CUET for organizing it. The conference would provide necessary guidelines alongside creating scope for exchanging knowledge and information, they said.
The speakers also hoped that the IFOST, which has brought a huge number of local and foreign researchers, scientists, practitioners and engineers together, would become a stronger forum gradually.
Mentionable, IFOST is an organization promoting multi-level collaboration among its member institutes. At present the forum comprises eight educational and research institutes as members. Its member universities are University of Ulsan (Korea), Novosibisk State Technical University (Russia), Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia), Harbin University Science and Technology (China), Mongolian University of Science and Technology (Mongolia), Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh), and University Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) and a research institute – Ulsan Technopark (Korea).
A 3-day long 9th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST ) Conference -2014 concluded at Cox’sBazar recently putting emphasis on innovation and application of science and information technology (IT) to keep pace with the growing IT development of the competitive world.
As member of INFOST ,Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) organized the conference at a posh hotel in the beach city of Cox’s Bazar from October 21 last
Over 100 scientists and researchers from Korea, Russia, China, Mongolia and Indonesia and over 200 from home participated at the IFOST conference sharing knowledge and information and putting up their latest research on IT .
Addressing the concluding ceremony of the conference Chairman of Bangladesh University Grant Commission (UGC) Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury said remarkable advancement can be achieved in everywhere through application of the IT as chief guest .
Bangladesh government has taken up different steps for development of IT from grassroot levels including offices of public and private organizations and educational institutions. Universities are being brought under high-speed internet to speed up higher education and research activities in the country, said the UGC chairman.
Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan, CUET Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Md Jahangir Alam and Pro-VC Prof Md Rafiqul Alam were present as special guests at the ceremony presided over by conference organising committee Secretary and CUET Computer Science and Engineering Head Prof Dr Koushik Dev.
The speakers at the ceremony underscored the need for advancing ahead keeping pace with the rapidly changing global technology.
The IFOST conference held in the country for the first time would benefit all the participants through sharing of knowledge on science and information technology, they said.
Bangladesh is now ahead of many in different indexes and making progress with over six percent growth even amid various problems across the globe. Massive use of science and technology can take the country further ahead, said speakers.
Terming the conference as a timely and significant one they lauded CUET for organizing it. The conference would provide necessary guidelines alongside creating scope for exchanging knowledge and information, they said.
The speakers also hoped that the IFOST, which has brought a huge number of local and foreign researchers, scientists, practitioners and engineers together, would become a stronger forum gradually.
Mentionable, IFOST is an organization promoting multi-level collaboration among its member institutes. At present the forum comprises eight educational and research institutes as members. Its member universities are University of Ulsan (Korea), Novosibisk State Technical University (Russia), Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia), Harbin University Science and Technology (China), Mongolian University of Science and Technology (Mongolia), Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh), and University Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) and a research institute – Ulsan Technopark (Korea).
