Staff Correspondent
World Bank has expressed eagerness to build IT-based infrastructure in the country along with creating
job opportunities in the very vital (IT) sector.
Mona Haddad, World Bank Global Director for Trade and Investment expressed the interest when she
was leading a delegation at a meeting with Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology
Adviser Md Nahid Islam.
During the meeting held at the adviser’s office in Bangladesh Secretariat, they discussed different
bilateral aspects especially focusing on Bangladesh’s unemployment problem and governmnet’s
commitment to address the issue.
Mentioning that unemployment problem as major concern of the country, he said the present interim
government is committed to create infrastructure to generate job opportunutues for the country’s
youths.
"Freelancers have a crucial role to play in our country's economy, but due to lack of infrastructure we
are unable to seize that opportunity. We are also interested in creating workplaces in the digital sector
for them,” he said seeking World Bank’s support to this end.
On launching new projects in the country, Nahid said at present the government is not thinking about
any new projects rather than making old projects more effective and time befitting.
He said that there is a lack of trust in public mind regarding information technology projects as a record
amount of money was allocated in the past but the results were not that much fruitful.
"Those projects are being scrutinized. As the World Bank is involved in several projects of the country,
pragmatic suggestion from World Bank is required”.
Secretary of Posts and Telecommunications Division Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Secretary for the
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Shish Haider Chowdhury, World Bank
Program Leader Souleymane Coulibaly and Senior Private Sector Specialist of World Bank Group in
Dhaka Hosna Ferdous Sumi joined the meeting.
WB eager to create IT-based infrastructure
