Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said the government has targeted to train 75,000 professionals in the next three years to solve the problem.
“The biggest challenge that Bangladesh is facing in IT sector development is shortage of skilled manpower … the number is limited,” he said in an interview with CeBIT Podcast in Germany on Thursday.
“Keeping this in mind, our government has set a target to train 75,000 IT professionals within the next three years but that is a fraction in comparison to the garment sector where millions of manpower are employed … you know that students studying in the relevant subject needs three or four years to complete the course,” he added.
Joy is now in Hanover, Germany for attending the Centre for Office Automation, Information Technology and Telecommunication (CeBIT) Expo.
On the Bangladesh Bank hacking issue, Joy said the exact number of hacking that took place in Bangladesh is very hard to determine, but the Kaspersky Group ranked Bangladesh as the No 1 country in terms of the target of the hackers.
“I think the probable reason behind this is that we have been digitised at the fastest rate. We are digitising government services … our focus is on digitising fast,” he said.
