Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said that human resources are essential to meet the challenges of the digital age. The government and the BAS need to work in a concerted effort to create adequate skilled human resources. He urged the Government, Industries, Academia and related trade bodies to come forward in creating useful human resources. He said BASIS will have to create its own human resources.
The minister said these things at the opening ceremony of the monthly magazine Smart Bangladesh published by Basis at a hotel in Dhaka on Saturday night.
Under the direction of BASIS President Russell T Ahmed, former BASIS President Mustafa Jabbar, former BASIS President Sarwar Alam and Habibullah N Karim and former Secretary General Atiq E Rabbani spoke in the event.
The former president of BASIS, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that it is difficult to imagine where Bangladesh will go in 2041 in the world of digital technology. Mustafa Jabbar, the sole entrepreneur who founded BASIS in 1997, highlighted the role of BASIS in the development of the country's software industry and said that we have fought to build a digital Bangladesh. Since 2009, we are the vanguard of the fight to implement Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Digital Bangladesh program. BASIS will have to play a more active role in the implementation of digital programs in the coming days. The former president of BCS and BASIS mentioned that we as the people of the software industries have to make the agriculture-based economy Bangladesh aware of the use of software. Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, the promoter of the Bengali language in computers, said that software is an intellectual property, it is essential to preserve this property through copyright, it can also be patented. He said that Europe and America led in the innovation of the past three industrial revolutions. He said the sun of innovation in the digital age has risen in Asia. He cited a 2018 statistic from the World Intellectual Property Organization in this regard. He said that year 3000 applications were made for patent registration in Europe and America. In the same year, an institution in Asia alone received 5,000 applications. He emphasized on the need to practice and protect intellectual property.
Speakers on the occasion emphasized on the need for concerted efforts by the government and BASIS to develop human resources in the development of software industry to meet the challenges of the future.
