Bangladesh Computer Council
Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) in association with JICA Bangladesh Office organised a certificate awarding ceremony for the 1 st Batch of trainees of the “Bangladesh- Japan ICT Engineers’ Training Program (B-JET)”at the BCC Auditorium, ICT Tower yesterday. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP was present as Chief Guest and while Ambassador of Japan in angladesh Hiroyasu Izumi as Special Guest. JICA Chief Representative akatoshi Nishikata and Executive Director of BCC were also present on the occasion. State Minister for ICT, Zunaid Ahmed Palak in his speech congratulated the trainees and deeply encouraged the IT Engineers and companies to take this as a great opportunity to increase export market of Bangladesh. He told that Bangladesh started enjoying a huge demographic dividend where more than 65 per cent of population are of working age. On the other hand, Japan, the third largest economy of the world, is experiencing a shrinking manpower. Interestingly Japan is the third most attractive IT market in the world, next to America and Europe. Our Government envisioned to build Digital Bangladesh by 2021 and set a target for 2 million mployments in IT/ITES sector and 5 billion USD exports from IT/ITES sector. We are eager to take the advantage by providing the trained IT Engineers to Japanese market in a appropriate manner. Bangladesh will take the opportunity to fill this gap with the skillful IT engineers for building Digital Bangladesh.
University Grants Commission
Professor Abdul Mannan, Chairman, University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh yesterday strongly condemned the attack on eminent writer and educationist Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Professor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. Protesting the incident, UGC Chairman said the entire nation has been deeply shocked at the heinous attack on Professor Zafar Iqbal. He said the perpetrators must be brought to justice soon. He demanded an exemplary punishment of the attackers and everyone involved behind this attack. He also wished early recovery of Dr. Jafar Iqbal, says a press release.
Knowledge Globalization Institute
The 13th International Knowledge Globalization Conference 2018 on the theme- Sustainable Development Goals- Success and Challenges was held at International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) Campus recently. The conference was organised by IUBAT, Knowledge Globalization Institute, Suffolk University, Boston, USA and Primeasia University. In the inauguration ceremony at Westin Minister for Social Welfare Rashed Khan Menon MP ornamented the occasion as the Chief Guest. Dr Jonathan Haughton, Professor of Economics at Suffolk University, USA, and Dr John Richards, Professor, School of Public Policy, Simon Fraser University, Canada were the keynote speakers. The inaugural address was delivered by the Dr KM Sultanul Aziz, Distinguished Professor, IUBAT and the Chairman of the organizing committee. Welcome speech was delivered by Prof Dr. Abdur Rab, VC and Convener of Conference. Dr Moududur Rahman, President of the Knowledge Globalization Institute and the conference chair, delivered his speech in the ceremony while Dr Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, VC , Primeasia University and co-convener of the conference, delivered the speech on ‘Vote of Thanks’. The theme of the conference was to assess the goals of sustainable development.
