Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the government is working to make digital devices a major source of export earnings for the country in future.
“I think digital devices can be the most exportable items in the future. We’ll have to take different steps and work accordingly,” she said while addressing the 2nd meeting of the Board of Governors of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority.
The premier joined the meeting, held at the Conference Room of ICT Division, through a videoconference from her official residence Ganobhaban.
She said the government wants digital devices with the tag of ‘Made in Bangladesh’ to be exported throughout the world like the garment products.
She said the meeting of Digital Bangladesh Taskforce held in 2015 had given importance on production of digital products in a bid to diversify the export items, reducing the country’s dependency on the 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’ve 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 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 US$ 5 billion and the employment to 30 lakhs in this sector by 2025, developing the skilled human resources through training. “I hope that we’ll be able to do so (to fulfill the two targets),” she said.
