"IT: We wished, with hope"
Taufiq Haider Chowdhury Dept of Information Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Huna
There were always some horse trading regarding IT professionals and IT industries in Bangladesh. Our worn-out telecommunication infrastructure and the lack of farsighted policies never let this industry boom, but the reverse has happened with India and China. A little state-level commitment can help project our IT professionals into the world market. Needless to say, our biggest source of forex currently comes from our expatriates.Beside sending fisherman to Korea, security guards and nurses to the Middle East etc, let's send some of our IT professionals abroad. When Microsoft says they have got a long term commitment to India and also plans to invest billions in China for further research of its products, we the poor IT fellows of Bangladesh look upto our ministry of science and technology for some hope. Our IT professionals can emulate their counterparts in India or China, but lack of state level backup is obstructing this possibility. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Ministry of Science and Technology can conjointly find some new markets for pushing in Bangladeshi IT professionals. Notably countries like Germany, Canada and Australia need a large number of IT professionals, which we are ready to provide. Microsoft Corp plans to hire 6,000 to 7,000 employees worldwide during its current fiscal year. Only state-level arrangement between the two sides can ensure that our IT professional step into the worlds market. Many of my countrymen are already working for some big IT giants such as Microsoft inc., Oracle corp., Hewlett-Packard etc, performing commendably. In China the state-level body communicates with big IT giants and invites them to invest in their land of high potential. Time to time they do campus recruiting and at the same time maintain a large human resource database for regularising their process. The same strategy is followed by India to attract IT giants. We can implement our neighbour's policy by steadily closing the gap between our strength and technology. It is always better late than never.
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