Software fair starts Feb 10
A five-day software exposition will kick off on February 10 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka, organisers said in a statement yesterday.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) will organise SOFTEXPO-2010, themed as Digital Bangladesh in Action.
Habibullah N Karim, BASIS president, disclosed the date of the fair at a press meet in a city hotel yesterday.
Karim said the IT event is expected to have a large software display and IT-enabled services breaking all previous records.
A Towhid, chairman of National Events Committee, MA Mubin Khan, director, and Nahid Ahmed, secretary general of BASIS, also attended the programme.
Mubin said the fair would focus on the government's Vision-2021 -- a deadline to make a Digital Bangladesh.
The fair is expected to see around five lakh visitors at its stalls of over 200 local and international companies.
Bangladesh has earned $32.91 million by exporting software accessories this year, a $5.91 million rise from last year. "The volume will increase by 30 to 40 percent next year."
SOFTEXPO aims to create a platform for showcasing immense potential of the industry by synchronising all sorts of software resources and skills available in Bangladesh, said organisers.
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