Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal has said Bangladesh is enjoying unique demographic dividend and believed that the country's IT sector will ensure employment for young generation.
He was speaking at the Bangladesh Development Fair, organised by Embassy of Bangladesh in The Hague on Saturday, said a press release on Sunday, reports UNB.
He urged the expatriate community to do their part through sharing their experiences of 'innovation' and 'creativity'.
Ambassador Belal advised Bangladesh origin IT experts to extend their support so that Bangladesh can also achieve desirable success and the country will be considered as IT hub of South Asia.
The Ambassador, drawing reference from US political history on how President Kennedy worked towards implementing his mission to send human being to mission, assured the non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) that Bangladesh is also lucky to have visionary leader like Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is working to implement Digital Bangladesh. He also urged the NRBs to contribute also towards vision 2041.
Over 100 members of expatriate Bangladesh community participated in the programme.
Apart from portraying the country's key developments in different sectors, the programme highlighted how Bangladesh origin IT experts can contribute in implementation of Digital Bangladesh.
A separate discussion session on "Road map for Digital Bangladesh: Role of NRBs" was held as part of the development fair.
The programme started with paying tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the martyrs of the 1971 Liberation War.
At the outset, Kazi Russel Pervez, Counsellor of the Embassy made a power point presentation on development activities of Bangladesh, followed by a presentation of Shakir Khan, Network Engineer of Genexis, on IT sector of Bangladesh.
In this presentation he mentioned how the Netherlands and Bangladesh can enhance collaboration in IT sector, what measures should be taken to identify potential Dutch IT companies and encourage them to make collaboration/investment in this sector of Bangladesh, how the Dutch IT companies can extend cooperation to Bangladesh and Bangladeshi IT expat community living in the north European country in terms of entrepreneurship development, human resource development, and technology transfer, how to initiate 'start-up' consultation/programmes between Dutch ventures and Bangladeshi start-up community such as startupdhaka.org (together with ICT Division, Bangladesh) and how expatriate community can be involved in implementation of Digital Bangladesh.
After presentation, in an open discussion session, a good number expatriate Bangladeshis shared their ideas, views and thoughts on making a bridge between Bangladeshi IT expats community in the Netherlands and IT sectors (both public and private) in Bangladesh.
They expressed their interest to contribute in development of IT sector of Bangladesh.
