DHAKA, Mar 23, 2020 (BSS) – The government is devising a plan to frame
‘National Robotics Strategy’ to leverage robots for economic growth, job
protection and creation and improved quality of life, official sources said.
Framing of the ‘National Robotic Strategy’ is part of the government’s
plan to make policy for the frontier technologies like Blockchain, Artificial
Intelligence, they said.
Bangladesh is already in the process of digital transformation and it
wanted to be the early adapter of frontier technologies in various sectors
including industries, health, education, agriculture, said senior secretary
of ICT Division N M Zeaul Alam.
He said the government has been preparing a draft of ‘National Robotics
Strategy’ to take the advantage of emerging technologies to enhance the
country’s economic growth.
The leveraging ICT for Employment and Growth of the IT-ITES Industry
(LICT) Project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division will
hold series of workshops with the stakeholders for incorporating
recommendations on the robotic strategy, said LICT project director Md Rezaul
Karim.
As part of holding such workshops the LICT project and Metropolitan
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and Bangladesh Employers Federation
(BEF) jointly organized a workshop last week on the Robotics Strategy.
Chaired by President of BEF Kamran T Rahman, the function was addressed,
among others, by Secretary General of MCCI Farooq Ahmed, Chairperson of
Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center Akhter Matin Chaudhury, Vice President of
BEF Habibullah N. Karim, Principal Engineer, IT and Service Development
Technology Division of Grameen Phone Mohammad Tareq Khan.
Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of North
South University Dr M Rokonuzzaman presented a keynote paper on the proposed
National Robotics Strategy while IT-ITES Policy Adviser of LICT Project Sami
Ahmed briefed about the objectives of framing such strategy at a time when
the fourth industrial revolution is knocking at the door and the frontier
technologies are going to play vital role for economic growth.
Lauding the initiative, the speakers called for framing such policy to
boost industrial production and sustain in the competitive world market.
The government, industry and the academia should work collaboratively to
frame comprehensive strategy, they added.