Development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Sector in Bangladesh

Current industry size:

Exports of about $800 million in the 2016-17 financial year. With this there is a market of about $1500 million dollars in the country. Export growth of 57.21 percent for 9 years. In other words, the exports in the information technology sector are becoming one and a half times more than the previous year. Target:

Contents

1 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development

2 IT applications of developed world in Bangladesh (Social Network, Entertainment, etc.)

3 Access to high speed internet rich computers, tabs, modern computing devices including smartphones for most people in the nation

4 Telecom infrastructures

5 High speed internet connections

6 Creating skilled human resources in software engineering

7 Increasing Software Exports

8 Let Bangladesh make world class computing device (Government Doyle)

9 Next level software and computing system for government work

10 The fourth industrial revolution in Bangladesh

11 What will be the smart city of tomorrow

Software IT Park; Robi Incubation.

Cloud

Freelancing, BPO ….

MIS

VOIP, Communication

Augmented, virtual reality

Bengali language processing

National awards in recognition of contribution to information technology

Maker movement

ICT for development

1 Business & E-commerce

2 Finance

Cash-on-delivery is still the most popular and reliable payment method in e-commerce in the country. Making mobile payments, debit-credit cards more popular.

3 Education

4 Healthcare

5 Transportation

6 Digitalization

Increasing Software Exports

Software development in the country is still largely limited to web development, mobile apps development and small-scale ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software.

We have Pageflakes among our good works.

One thing developers in our country need to know is that using open source tools and cloud computing they can easily develop high quality software.

And it is possible to capture the million dollar market by developing high quality software.

Indian companies, however, are working in the Big Data space using Open Source Tools like Hadoop, MongoDB, other NoSQL Database etc. and Cloud Computing Infrastructure like Amazon Web Service.

Using Open Source Tools like Hadoop, HBase, MongoDB, other NoSQL Database etc. and using Cloud Computing Infrastructure like Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Cloud, our boys can also build “Big Data” applications.

We need to spread the culture of Software Development among our boys using Open Source Libraries and Frameworks. Not only Web Development with CakePHP, jQuery, but also Distributed Application Development using Cassandra, Hadoop, Pig.

How to develop Software Development Skills using Open Source Tools, Cloud Computing?

In Bangladesh, various Open Source Frameworks and libraries, Cloud Computing Infrastructure users’ group should be formed. Everyone will learn by discussing together, working on projects. Regular conferences should be organized on other Software Development Tools (like Pycon Dhaka held).

In Universities, the emphasis should be on on Basic Programming in 1st year, Programming Contest in 2nd-3rd year, Software Development in 4th year using various Open Source Tools. Everyone can sit at the course of the best universities (Coursera, Udacity, MITx, EdX). Internet connection costs should be reduced.

Outsourcing is mainly done in our country – we develop the products of external customers. It’s time to move on to our own product development.

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