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Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campuses in Bangladesh: Palak to envoy

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Published: 20:33, 11 September 2022  
Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campuses in Bangladesh: Palak to envoy

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State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday requested Russia to open offshore campuses of its technical universities in Bangladesh — to develop the IT sector in Bangladesh and make the youth skilled.

He made the call at a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Bangladesh, Alexander Mantytskiy, at the former’s office at ICT Tower in Dhaka’s Agargaon area.

During the meeting, they discussed various issues, including cooperation in cyber security capacity building and introduction of inter-operable digital transaction (IDTP) system between Russia and Bangladesh.

Besides, business and investment by Russian technology companies in robotics, machine learning, AI, AR and VR, land allocations for Russian companies in hi-tech parks here, arrangement of Bangladesh-Russia investment summit, participation of Russian IT companies in Digital World Summit here in December, and start-up exchange programs came up for discussion in the meeting.

The Russian ambassador assured full cooperation in these sectors, expressing hope that the bilateral relations between the two countries in various fields including ICT will be strengthened in the near future.

ICT Senior Secretary NM Zeaul Alam, Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Bikarna Kumar Ghosh and Director General of Digital Security Agency Khairul Amin were present, said a PID handout.

 

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