Published on 12:00 AM, January 08, 2018

eGeneration to give AI-based services to Dubai firm

Shameem Ahsan, chairman of eGeneration, and Siddique Farid, CEO of SmartCrowd, attend a deal signing ceremony at the former's head office in Dhaka recently. A Bangladeshi entity, eGeneration will create artificial intelligence, data analytics and a blockchain-based digital investment platform for the latter, a Dubai-based company. Photo: eGeneration

SmartCrowd, a Dubai-based crowdfunding company, has recently assigned Bangladeshi IT firm eGeneration to create an artificial intelligence, data analytics and blockchain-based digital investment platform.

"We have competed with European and American companies and finally won the project, thanks to the world-class technology and business expertise of eGeneration," said Shameem Ahsan, chairman of eGeneration Group.

He said eGeneration is working diligently with an aim to make Bangladesh a global brand in providing leading innovative solutions and moving beyond being a low-cost IT solutions provider.

"To achieve the target, we have developed in-house expert skills in cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, data analysis, blockchains and cyber security," he said.

SM Ashraful Islam, executive vice chairman of eGeneration Group, and Siddique Farid, founder and CEO of SmartCrowd, have recently signed an agreement in this regard at the head office of eGeneration in Dhaka.

At the signing ceremony, Farid said eGeneration has got skilled manpower in next generation technologies, including artificial intelligence.

eGeneration earlier successfully implemented ICT projects in Denmark, the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Uganda and the Philippines.