Ict Industry of Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects

Information and communication technology is the strength of this new era. ICT has enriched our abilities to turn over the data into useful information. Bangladesh is doing a lot of improvement in the field of ICT. Government mission is to make a digitalized Bangladesh which is named as vision2021. People in Bangladesh are showing a huge amount of interest in the field of ICT. A lot of Government and non-government organizations are working behind the opening of ICT training institutes. People from every district in Bangladesh are getting this advantage due to this kind of initiatives by these organizations. People are improving their financial status through it. The demand in ICT sector is creating day by day but many problems are being faced. Government and many organizations are trying to fix these problems which are resulting curing from these problems.

Problems Faced of ICT Industry

ICT is developing fast in Bangladesh. But ICT industry is facing a lot of problem during this development. The problems that ICT industry are facing are given below:

• Load shedding: ICT is mainly dependent on electricity whereas there occurs a lot of load shedding in Bangladesh. This resists the development of ICT industry.
• Illiteracy: It is a main problem. Especially rural people are not aware of literacy. To work on ICT terms people should be educate themselves. Otherwise they will not be able to understand a lot of terms about it.
• Cost: Most of the people of Bangladesh are middle and low class. Mainly Rural people lead miserable life whereas cost of ICT related products are very high. So, that high price is unbearable to the maximum people.
• Rural People: Above 65% people of Bangladesh lives in villages. Most of them hardly earn their livelihood. In these circumstances, they even don’t want to know about the effect of technology that can bear good result to them and their kids. This huge amount of people should be the targeted area of ICT industry.
• Hardware sector: In Bangladesh there is not any reliable hardware company. Uses of technology are increasing but no one is concentrating on it. Maximum hardware parts are imported from abroad like China, Japan etc.
• Software sector: There is no such software developing company in Bangladesh that is working well in this sector. Maximum applications we use are created by foreign countries. If they can produce such application so why not we. The people working on it are not giving their effort that way.
• Lack of applied knowledge: In ICT, applied knowledge is given first priority comparing theoretical knowledge. But in Bangladesh people are not able to get that much practical knowledge. Different training institutes are just imposing theoretical knowledge to the students.
• Lack of applied sector: There is a few applied sector of ICT where students can learn practically. If students can not apply their theoretical knowledge in practical life, the knowledge has no value. One can learn better about ICT practically than theoretically.
• Politics: It is a huge problem in Bangladesh. There remains clash between the ruling party and opponent party always. Again the leaders are not sincere enough to their respective places. Due to different political violations ICT industries are not being able to stand up perfectly.
• Building Factory: To build enough resource and enriched ICT company a huge land is needed. But being a land shorted country it is facing impracticability to build so.

Initiatives To Take

ICT industry should take some initiatives to provide technology easily to the people. The initiatives are described below:

• They should provide internet at a cheaper rate. This will increase people of the using internet. At present SIM companies are doing very unfair with the customers serving internet. They are taking high amount of money in terms of internet. Most of the people are out of taking the advantages of ICT due to high price of internet.
• Network quality must be improved. The bad quality of network is nothing but distressing people. It is very annoying. There is a lot of area in Bangladesh where hardly get 2G mobile network.
• The teaching curriculum of Bangladesh is not practical enough. That’s why student can’t do well in solving practical problems. So, the teaching curriculum should be more practical which will help the students in working period.
• Expanding freelancing is necessary. The number of unemployed people in our country is increasing day by day. Nowadays, people can earn online staying at home through freelancing. This will help to become self-reliant. Expanding freelancing will reduce unemployment problem in Bangladesh in a huge number.
• A lot of skilled and professional Bangladeshis in the field of ICT are working in foreign countries. They did not get enough proper demand of them here. ICT industry should give them proper space, treat them well and encourage them to work in Bangladesh.
• To make ICT park. Government has already created ICT Park named HI-TECH ICT Park which has increased the status of technology. Such ICT park can create a revolutionary change in technology development.
• Professional training course is important. Creating different training institutes is mandatory.
• Government along with ICT industry should be concern about village people of Bangladesh. If they are able to pull the rural people toward ICT sector obviously this will create a good impact.
• ICT industry should request government to reduce the electricity problem. Due to the electricity problem correct use of technology can’t be done. In many villages of Bangladesh there is no electricity and if there is electricity load shedding occurs in no time. So this problem should be fixed immediately.