Bangladesh Enters ITPEC Family
Monday, September 1, 2014|
Ariyan
The Japan-based
Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a regulatory body for evaluating
the Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) conferred the ITPEC
membership on Bangladesh at a function held today at the
auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). On the occasion A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between
the BCC and the IPA. Executive Director of BCC SM Asfak Hossain and Vice
Chairman of IPA Hisaya Tanaka inked the agreement on
behalf of their respective organoizations.
Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology
Minister Abdul Latif Siddique attended the occasion as chief guest. State
Minister for ICT division Junaid Ahmed Palak and Japan Ambassador Shiro Sadoshima were
present as special guests while ICT division secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan was
in the chair.
Chief
Representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Mr. Mikio
Hataeda, Representative of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Mr. Kei
Kawano, Deputy Director General of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of
Japan Mr. Hideyuki Ohashi and IT
Engineer Management Project Director of BCC Sheikh Amzad Hossain also spoke on the occasion.
The ITEE is basically a
national standardized examination of Japan for IT professionals where five to six lakh IT
students and IT professionals attended every year.
In Bangladesh, the ICT division under Posts, Telecommunications and
Information Technology ministry introduced ITEE under a project
titled “Capacity Building on ITEE Management” with the help of Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with a view to give a global
recognition to the skills, knowledge and experience of Bangladesh IT
professionals.
Abdul Latif Siddique said as the member of ITPEC now Bangladesh has the authority to hold Information
Technology Engineers Examinations (ITEE) every year.
He said the ITEE is the examination for evaluating skill of IT engineers and successful candidates will get global recognition, which will ensure easy access to job markets.
He said the ITEE is the examination for evaluating skill of IT engineers and successful candidates will get global recognition, which will ensure easy access to job markets.
Junaid Ahmed
Palak said the ITPEC membership will help Bangladesh to export its skilled IT human resources
worldwide.
N I Khan said
the ITEE will play an important role to develop confidence among the Bangladesh
IT engineers for competing in the global job markets.
ITEE test is
recognized in 12 Asian countries including the second largest IT job market Japan and also honored in the markets of
European and American countries.
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