Plan to set up mobile phone assembling plant

FE Desk | Published: May 27, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

The government is going to organise a three-day Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the city.
ICT Division in collaboration with Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) will organise the event, which will kick off on June 15. President Abdul Hamid is expected to inaugurate.
After successful completion of Digital World during the last three consecutive years, the ICT Division is also partnering with private organisation to arrange the Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 to showcase ICT products and share knowledge and innovation, secretary of the information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Shyam Sunder Sikder told a press conference in the city Tuesday, according to BSS.
ICT Division and BCS jointly organised the press conference held at the BCS Dhanmondi office. Executive director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) S M Ashraful Islam, BCS president A H M Mahfuzul Arif, and its vice-president Mazibur Rahman spoke at the function.
Stressing the need for enforcing joint effort, the ICT secretary said the government alone cannot materialise the dream of Digital Bangladesh as charted out in its Vision 2021. The private sector must have to come forward and join hands with the government to turn Bangladesh into a middle-income country by 2021 through implementing Digital Bangladesh, he added.
Mr Sikder said, "The Bangladesh ICT Expo-2015 would enable us to know the hurdles on way to advance the ICT sector and make it possible to remove those."
Mr Ashraf said the government has put stress on building a manufacturing ecosystem and setting up Research and Development (R&D) centre to boost the country's ICT sector.
"The assembling plants for manufacturing small devices like mobile phone will be established which would create employment for thousands," he said, adding that the ICT Expo-2015 will create an opportunity to showcase the manufacturing items of local and foreign companies.
The BCS president said nearly 400 million visitors are expected to visit the exposition.
The exposition would bring together local and international experts who will share and exchange their knowledge on ICT advancement and challenges in the seminars to be organised during the three-day exposition, he added.