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US-Bangladesh Technology Association organized an IT Summit at Marriott Marcus, Times Square, NY on Oct 13, 2010. Dr. Atiur Rahman, the Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, the Finance Minister, Sajeeb Wajed Joy, Dr. Moshiur Rahman, Adviser to the Prime Minister, BASIS president Mahbub Zaman and owner, representative of the best IT companies from Bangladesh were presents. Please see the news about US-Bangladesh Technology Summit 2010 in the attached file published in the Weekly Bangla Patrika. With regards, Abubokor Hanip Director, US-Bangladesh Technology Association President & CEO, PeopleNTech, LLC President & CEO, PeopleNTech Institute of Information Technology, INC President & CEO, Upscale Learning, LLC 703-586-7848 ahanip@peoplentech.com Bangladesh next IT Destination Why Outsourcing IT to Bangladesh? : With tens of thousands of young IT skilled workforce conversant in English, Bangladesh is one of Asia's most attractive IT outsourcing destinations after India-particularly for clients in the USA and other Anglophone countries. : A good number of IT companies in Bangladesh have already built successful track records of working for reputed clients all over the world. Currently around 150 IT companies in Bangladesh are exporting to over 30 countries. Out of these IT companies, nearly two-thirds service clients in USA. : Bangladesh offers significant cost advantages for IT outsourcing – both in terms of worker-wages as well as cost of infrastructure. : Salary of programmers in Bangladesh is 50% of that in India, 40% of Philippines and 70% of Vietnam. : Rent for office space in Dhaka (Capital) is below 20% of that in Delhi and 40% of Manila. : Specialized IT Education in Bangladesh is well established at the graduation and post graduation levels. Over 90 Universities and 700 Colleges across the country offer IT education programs. Every year, over 6,000 IT graduates come out of these universities and colleges. : A large part of these IT graduates also possess global IT vendor certifications (e.g., from Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, HP) on top of their academic degrees. : Excellence of IT workforce from Bangladesh is a well-accepted fact at home and abroad. Over 15,000 IT professionals from Bangladesh are working successfully in various leading companies of different countries of North America and Europe including Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Sun, Oracle, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Nortel and Lucent –to name a few. : Bangladesh Govt. and IT industry have taken up aggressive plans to scale up the number of IT workforce to meet the increasing demands. : Software and IT services have been declared by the Govt. as a 'High Priority' export sector. : Special Hi-Tech and Software Technology Parks are being built by the Govt. to facilitate all the infrastructural supports needed by outsourcing companies.
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