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Young talents urged to embrace IT

Tofail inaugurates IBM-ACE training centre

By Staff Correspondent
Speakers at a launching ceremony of an IT education centre urged the country's young talents to utilise the vast opportunities offered by information technology by availing better education.
They were addressing Hie launching ceremony of BRAC-IBM-ACE centre at Mohakhali. Founder executive director of BRAC Fazle Hasan Abed chaired the ceremony.
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed hoped that Bangladeshi IT learners would be able to reach world class standard through better IT education available in the country.
Terming information technology as the most rapidly growing industry in the world. Tofail said previously e-coin-merce was hardly a "mill-decimal point" in world economic statistics, but now It is a billion dollars business and a few years from now e-commerce will be a trillion dollar business.
"It is changing the way we shop, we work, we communicate, we do business and the way we provide government services. It has become a part of life of hundreds of millions of people of the world."
Describing various government steps for development of the IT sector, he said, "The present government has withdrawn all taxes and duties on the import of computer hardware. software and accessories to enable people to easily get access to information."
"Hardware are now available in districts, thanas and even in villages. Many schools are now provided with computers."
He said the country will be getting about 500 IT graduates a year from the domestic institutes but "we need 10.000 programmers annually."
He hoped BRAC-IBM training centre will come up with the latest curricula to meet the growing demand of program-
"We don't want typists, we want programmers to meet the demand."
The BRAC executive director expressed his optimism that young people of the country would be able to have international standard IT education through the centre.
He reiterated BRAC's commitments towards educating people all over the country.
The function organised at BRAC Centre Inn was also addressed among others by MN Khorana, general manager of IBM Learning Services and Sa-hool Afzal. Director of IT, BRAC.