Export Earning from IT Sector

Bangladesh is on the right track to achieve the target of raising its ICT export to $5 billion by 2021, ICT industry leaders said yesterday.

However, huge challenges lie ahead, and the next few years will be very crucial as the industry needs to adapt to technological changes, they said.

The ICT industry leaders were speaking at a seminar titled “$5 Billion Export” organised on the sidelines of the country's biggest ICT event, Digital World. The four-day mega event ends today.






“We have enormous opportunities in the field of digitisation, but we don't have enough skilled human resources to meet the needs of the information and communications technology industry,” Mustafa Jabbar, president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), said at the seminar in the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.

The ICT industry is even capable of exceeding the government's export target. But for that to happen, the shortage of skilled manpower has to be addressed, he said.