Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government is working to make digital devices a major source of export earnings for Bangladesh in the future.
“I think digital devices can be the most exportable items in the future. We will have to take different steps and work accordingly,” she said while addressing the second meeting of the Board of Governors of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority.
The premier joined the meeting, held in the conference room of the ICT Division, through a videoconference from her official residence Ganabhaban.
She said the government wants digital devices with the tag of “Made in Bangladesh” to be exported throughout the world like garment products.
She said the meeting of the Digital Bangladesh Taskforce held in 2015 had given importance to the production of digital products in a bid to diversify the export items, reducing the country’s dependency on a single export item.
Hasina said her government has given the highest importance to the education and expansion of the latest technology in order to take the country forward.
“We have taken the decision of setting up hi-tech parks for the development of the digital economy,” she said, adding that the decision was taken as per the suggestion of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, her ICT affairs adviser.
She said the government is working to raise the export earnings from the ICT sector to $5 billion and the employment to three million in this sector by 2025, developing the skilled human resources through training. “I hope that we will be able to fulfill the two targets,” she said.
