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2022-09-11 18:04:02

‘Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campus in Bangladesh’

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‘Open Russian tech universities’ offshore campus in Bangladesh’

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 here and up skills youths, reports UNB.

He made the call was made 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.

Business and investment by Russian technology companies in robotics, machine learning, AI, AR and VR, land allocations for Russian companies in hi-tech parks in Bangladesh, 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.

Bd-pratidin/Ishrar Tabassum

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