Bangladeshi tech firms to enter African market
Bangladeshi information technology (IT) and hardware entrepreneurs will soon enter the IT market in Africa, as the leading IT businessmen here are going to ink some bilateral agreements with companies in that continent.
Roger Latchman, deputy chairman of World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) and a leading IT businessman from South Africa, and Sabur Khan, the chairman of Daffodil Group and a director of WITSA, have facilitated the process.
Talking to The Independent, Latchman, who recently visited Bangladesh, said, Bangladesh has been making remarkable progress in the IT and IT-enabled services industry in the past few decades. Latchman said barring some countries, most of Africa is still lagging behind in the IT sector. These African countries are outsourcing IT services as well as IT manpower from other nations. Bangladesh has the best potential to enter the African market. Its IT entrepreneurs have already proved themselves in the world IT market, observed Latchman.
Besides, Bangladesh has a large workforce; it is just a matter of time to transform this into manpower, especially IT manpower, he said, adding that he would facilitate the arrangements to import expert IT manpower from Bangladesh to Africa.
Sabur Khan, a leading Bangladeshi businessman who is also the chairman of the WITSA trading committee, told The Independent that some frameworks for bilateral agreements with African companies to export software as well as manpower are making progress. It may start at the beginning of next year, he disclosed.
