Danish ICT market offers opportunities for Bangladesh
February 16th, 2008
Bangladesh could take a share of Denmark’s big ICT market by becoming an outsourcing destination of the European country, Einar H. Jensen, Danish ambassador in Dhaka, told a seminar yesterday.
“Though we have a very small population, our still rising ICT market is big that requires additional manpower that is not possible to collect from our internal sources,” Jensen told the seminar titled ‘Software and IT Services Outsourcing to Denmark’.
The seminar was organised on the sidelines of the five-day Software exposition that began Thursday at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre, organised by Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).
The envoy further said the wide use of English in Bangladesh is an added benefit of bringing Danish ICT companies to Bangladesh.
Rafiqul Islam Rowly, president of BASIS, said, “Though the universities produce a good number of people every year, they cannot fulfill the market demand as their curricula do not match with the market requirements.â€
“This is why we proposed to the ministry of Science and ICT for establishing an institution that will groom up graduates and other IT experts,” Rowly said.
TIM Nurul Kabir, convener of SoftExpo 2008 and director of BASIS, also spoke at the function, among others.
Source: The Daily Star
February 16th, 2008 at 2:15 am
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February 16th, 2008 at 2:16 am
I think Bangladesh’s IT sector has a bright future doing outsourced work not just for Denmark, but for practically every developed country where English is used.
I think that some outsourcing even from India might take place.