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Joy urges young ICT entrepreneurs to be innovative
DHAKA, April 21, 2019 (BSS) – Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb
Wazed Joy today called upon the young information and communication
technology entrepreneurs to generate their own innovative ideas to take the
lead in the global ICT sector.
“My message to our BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industrialist is find
your own innovations and visions, find your ideas, find new technologies —
don’t imitate, rather innovate,” he told the young IT entrepreneurs opening a
two-day 4th BPO Summit at a city hotel.
Joy said Bangladesh’s next door neighbor India earned a global repute of
being the “outsourcing hub of the world” making it difficult to others like
Bangladesh to compete with them.
“Our BPO industry does not need to go head to head, and toe to toe with the
largest Indian IT and BPO companies to try to imitate what they do,” he said.
But, Joy said, the ICT industry was still very new and Bangladeshi BPO
entrepreneurs should explore opportunities through their innovative ideas as
“there are new and new services that are coming online that perhaps we have
not even imagine”.
Posts, Telecommunications and IT Minister Mustafa Jabbar chaired the
opening session of the meet, joined as well by State Minister for ICT
Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak while when Bangladesh Association of Call Center
and Outsourcing (BACCO) President Wahid Sharif delivered the welcome
address.
ICT Division Secretary NM Zeaul Alam, Posts and Telecommunications Division
Secretary in Charge Ashoke Kumar Biswas and Bangladesh Telecommunication
Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Md Jahurul Haque also spoke.
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