‘Future-ready youth to shape post-pandemic world’
A country like Bangladesh needs to harness digital advancements, build a cohesive ecosystem, and leverage high-speed connectivity to sustain digital lifestyle and welcome the fourth industrial revolution, Grameenphone CEO Yasir Azman said on October 12.
"This is possible by best utilising the power of 4G, resolving the pertaining industry challenges and eventually co-create a 5G-friendly policy framework for implementation," he said.
"It is essential to upskill and equip ourselves, especially our youth, with relevant skillsets to get them future-ready to accelerate digitalisation. Leveraging the youth dividend can help us build advanced capabilities to drive and sustain the technological revolution."
Azman spoke while presenting a keynote on "Technology vs the Pandemic: How has the Pandemic Influenced Digital Advancements?" at the 'Mobile 360', a signature event of the Global System for Mobile Communications GSM Association (GSMA) organised virtually.
In his speech, he outlined the newfound possibilities of technology amid the global pandemic catastrophe.
The timely initiative, undertaken by GSMA for the Asia Pacific, carried the objective to analyse the rapidly developing tech industry and its transformation during the Covid-19 phase.
The Grameenphone CEO pointed out this discourse with apt rationality, disseminating the evolution of mobile technology, connectivity, public-private partnership opportunities, access to vital information, affordability, the telecom industry's contribution to health and education, and future-readiness and obtaining of futuristic tech tools like Big Data.
Azman mentioned how the Bangladesh government and private sector worked relentlessly together since Covid-19 hit the country.
"Connectivity has become not only essential but critical in these challenging times amid confinement measures put in place to curb the spread of the disease."
As a collective force, the telecom industry stepped up with affordable connectivity managing additional capacity, facilitated online education, equipped health sector and best utilise big data for fighting corona virus, he said.
"To make it happen innovation and sheer commitment helped industry sustain this rapid serge."
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