Digital commerce fairs start tomorrow
The e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) will hold a series of digital commerce fairs in eight divisions, starting with Jashore from tomorrow, in a bid to promote the country's electronic commerce sector.
Leading e-commerce companies are set to showcase their products and services. There will also be seminars on various issued faced by the e-commerce sector alongside concerts, said e-CAB General Secretary Abdul Wahed Tomal.
The event, which was established two years back and held annually, is organised by the e-CAB in association with Bangladesh Post Office and Tottho Apa, a project of Jatiyo Mohila Sangstha.
The next phase will take the event to Rajshahi on March 14, Rangpur on March 21, Mymensingh on March 28, Sylhet on April 4 and Barishal on April 11.
The final leg will see two-day programmes take place, beginning with Chattogram on April 18-19, while the fair will be concluded through the Dhaka phase on April 24-25.
The fair will be inaugurated at the Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore, where sponsors and senior government officials will be present alongside e-CAB leaders.
Daraz, the country's largest online shopping platform, is a platinum sponsor for the event while two other local e-commerce market leaders, Evaly and Chaldal, are gold sponsors.
"The culture of digital commerce has emerged and keeping distance from this digitalisation is not possible," said Tomal, adding that since the post office will act as the primary delivery channel for products bought online in the coming days, the e-CAB decided to partner with them.
Seventy per cent of all businesses across the globe will be conducted online by 2025 and Bangladesh needs to prepare for that, Tomal said.
Every year, the e-CAB observes April 7 as the National e-Commerce Day while April 7-13 is observed as e-Commerce Week.
Bangladesh's e-commerce market stands at $1.6 billion currently and will double to $3 billion by 2023 on the back of a digital foundation laid down by the government and a young and tech-savvy population, a German research firm said recently.
In terms of e-commerce revenue, Bangladesh is ranked 46th in the global ranking, according to Statista.
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