Malaysian IT firm sets foot in Bangladesh

Doptor, a Kuala Lumpur-based software and IT outsourcing company, began its operations in Bangladesh yesterday.

Doptor is a complete office automation system, said Masud Rana, the company's managing director.

The system will help digitise any office in the field of human recourses, accounting, pay role and enterprise management, said Rana, who is a Bangladeshi citizen and founder of the company.

Sabur Khan, director of World IT and Services Alliances, launched the system at a programme at The Daily Star Centre in Dhaka.

A smart card named 'Touch n Go' was also showcased at the programme. The card will help pay all kinds of utility bills, bus, train and taxi fares and bills at grocery shops and malls.

This is the right time to launch this kind of a service in the country, said Khan.

Currently, the size of the country's annual ICT market is over $2 billion and $1.2 billion of it is drained out of Bangladesh by foreign companies, said Munir Hasan, general secretary of Bangladesh Open Source Network.

Khondkar Saleque Sufi, former adviser of the petroleum ministry in Afghanistan, Abu Reza Khan, managing director of Summit Telchnopolies, and Rokeya Quader, managing director of Career Hub and chairman of Desh Group of Companies, were also present.