BSS, Dhaka :
Leading national and international IT experts and government executives at a seminar laid emphasis on developing skill standard to create skillful youngsters for boosting Bangladesh’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.They said Bangladesh badly needs to set up skill standard for building skilled youngsters at a time when the country has put its best endeavor to carry forward the ICT sector in line with its Digital Bangladesh vision. “Bangladesh is absolutely in a right position for the IT Enable Services like software testing services, project management, call centers, back office service and it should create skillful youngsters to generate employment opportunities,” an internationally reputed IT expert Bikram Dasgupta told the seminar titled ‘Dialogue on IT and IT Enable Services (ITES) Skill Standard for Bangladesh’ on Thursday.He called for developing skills standard for Bangladesh as required for IT industry to help develop skillful youngsters like that of India for creating an employment opportunity for the youngsters.
In his keynote paper Bikram Dasgupta, who is the expert adviser of Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC under the ICT Division elaborated the countrywide approach to skill development and said there should be skill development ecosystem covering national policy formulation and direction, authorized training center network, social community, industry engagement for employment skills.
“The person who acquires the skill can do difficult thing easily,” he said adding skill development today involves both Motor and Cognitive processes depending on the domain in focus manufacturing and knowledge. “It is the skilled people who are creating jobs in India and there is plenty of opportunity for the Bangladeshi youngsters to do the same if they become skillful,” said Bikram Dasgupta, founder of Infinity and the harbinger of IT Park in India.
Making a recommendation on third party assessment he said there should be a third party assessment about the training and establishment of independent assessor for certifying the skill standard.
Secretary in-charge of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Kamal Uddin Ahmed attended the seminar as the chief guest. Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) S M Ashraful Islam chaired the seminar where Vice Chairman of ICT Industry Skill Council and President of Bangladesh Association of Call Center Organisations (BACCO) Ahmadul Hoq, Chief Executive Officer of National Skills Development Council (NSDC) A B M Khorshed Alam addressed.
Kamal Uddin Ahmed said the government has been relentlessly trying to carry forward the ICT sector and creating skillful manpower to give it a boost. “Government is working to develop Digital culture for flourishing IT industry. Skilled manpower is the number one tool to develop digital culture as well as flourishing of IT sector,” Ashraful Islam said adding the government is putting emphasis on skill gap analysis to fulfill the gap in the ICT sector.
Leveraging ICT project of BCC will provide world-class training to 34,000 who would play a vital role to meet the IT industry’s demand of skilled manpower.
Leading national and international IT experts and government executives at a seminar laid emphasis on developing skill standard to create skillful youngsters for boosting Bangladesh’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.They said Bangladesh badly needs to set up skill standard for building skilled youngsters at a time when the country has put its best endeavor to carry forward the ICT sector in line with its Digital Bangladesh vision. “Bangladesh is absolutely in a right position for the IT Enable Services like software testing services, project management, call centers, back office service and it should create skillful youngsters to generate employment opportunities,” an internationally reputed IT expert Bikram Dasgupta told the seminar titled ‘Dialogue on IT and IT Enable Services (ITES) Skill Standard for Bangladesh’ on Thursday.He called for developing skills standard for Bangladesh as required for IT industry to help develop skillful youngsters like that of India for creating an employment opportunity for the youngsters.
In his keynote paper Bikram Dasgupta, who is the expert adviser of Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC under the ICT Division elaborated the countrywide approach to skill development and said there should be skill development ecosystem covering national policy formulation and direction, authorized training center network, social community, industry engagement for employment skills.
“The person who acquires the skill can do difficult thing easily,” he said adding skill development today involves both Motor and Cognitive processes depending on the domain in focus manufacturing and knowledge. “It is the skilled people who are creating jobs in India and there is plenty of opportunity for the Bangladeshi youngsters to do the same if they become skillful,” said Bikram Dasgupta, founder of Infinity and the harbinger of IT Park in India.
Making a recommendation on third party assessment he said there should be a third party assessment about the training and establishment of independent assessor for certifying the skill standard.
Secretary in-charge of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Kamal Uddin Ahmed attended the seminar as the chief guest. Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) S M Ashraful Islam chaired the seminar where Vice Chairman of ICT Industry Skill Council and President of Bangladesh Association of Call Center Organisations (BACCO) Ahmadul Hoq, Chief Executive Officer of National Skills Development Council (NSDC) A B M Khorshed Alam addressed.
Kamal Uddin Ahmed said the government has been relentlessly trying to carry forward the ICT sector and creating skillful manpower to give it a boost. “Government is working to develop Digital culture for flourishing IT industry. Skilled manpower is the number one tool to develop digital culture as well as flourishing of IT sector,” Ashraful Islam said adding the government is putting emphasis on skill gap analysis to fulfill the gap in the ICT sector.
Leveraging ICT project of BCC will provide world-class training to 34,000 who would play a vital role to meet the IT industry’s demand of skilled manpower.
