BSS, Dhaka :
The government in collaboration with the US based consulting firm Tholons will formulate a policy strategy and guidelines for Bangladesh’s IT sector to help achieve one billion US dollar IT export by 2022.
“The Policy Strategy and Guidelines would create a conducive environment in the IT sector to attract blue chips foreign companies to invest in Bangladesh, said Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Executive Director S M Ashraful Islam while addressing a workshop on “Uniting Visions: Industry Development” here Saturday.
Tholons came up with the idea to develop the Policy Strategy and Guidelines for Bangladesh’s IT and ITES sector in its presentation offered at the function jointly organized by Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) and Tholons and Aon Hewitt.
Leading IT industry leaders, IT experts, bureaucrats and academics from home and abroad attended the function conducted by Ashraful Islam.
President of Tholons Research Manuel Ravago, who presented a keynote paper at the workshop, said targeting one billion US dollar IT exports by 2022 was not an ambitious and it was possible to achieve the target by addressing some issues including lack of physical infrastructure, Industry-Policy Mismatch, branding, and lack of certification.
Various ecosystem factors make it difficult for IT and ITES providers to develop sustainable operations such as in infrastructure, lack of qualified talent, talent immobility, cost inflation, lack of financing opportunities, he added.
Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS) President Shameem Ahsan said the IT industry has long been waiting for a concrete and holistic plan to take the IT and ITES sector forward. BASIS will extend all out cooperation to Tholons to make the Policy Strategy and Guidelines which is needed to attract both local and foreign investment in the IT sector, he added.
The government in collaboration with the US based consulting firm Tholons will formulate a policy strategy and guidelines for Bangladesh’s IT sector to help achieve one billion US dollar IT export by 2022.
“The Policy Strategy and Guidelines would create a conducive environment in the IT sector to attract blue chips foreign companies to invest in Bangladesh, said Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Executive Director S M Ashraful Islam while addressing a workshop on “Uniting Visions: Industry Development” here Saturday.
Tholons came up with the idea to develop the Policy Strategy and Guidelines for Bangladesh’s IT and ITES sector in its presentation offered at the function jointly organized by Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) and Tholons and Aon Hewitt.
Leading IT industry leaders, IT experts, bureaucrats and academics from home and abroad attended the function conducted by Ashraful Islam.
President of Tholons Research Manuel Ravago, who presented a keynote paper at the workshop, said targeting one billion US dollar IT exports by 2022 was not an ambitious and it was possible to achieve the target by addressing some issues including lack of physical infrastructure, Industry-Policy Mismatch, branding, and lack of certification.
Various ecosystem factors make it difficult for IT and ITES providers to develop sustainable operations such as in infrastructure, lack of qualified talent, talent immobility, cost inflation, lack of financing opportunities, he added.
Bangladesh Association of Software Information and Services (BASIS) President Shameem Ahsan said the IT industry has long been waiting for a concrete and holistic plan to take the IT and ITES sector forward. BASIS will extend all out cooperation to Tholons to make the Policy Strategy and Guidelines which is needed to attract both local and foreign investment in the IT sector, he added.
