Bangladesh gets ITPEC membership

BSS, Dhaka :
Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology (IT) Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui said Bangladesh will be awarded Information Technology Professional Examination Council (ITPEC) membership today.
Addressing a press conference at the conference room of ICT Division, he said the Japan-based Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a regulatory body for evaluating the Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE), will confer the ITPEC membership on Bangladesh at a function to be held tomorrow at the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC).
High officials of Japanese government and representatives of the six ITPEC countries-Philippine, Malaysia, Thailand, Mongolia, Myanmar and Vietnam-will be present at the function.
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Secretary of ICT Division Md Nazrul Islam Khan, Executive Director of BCC S M Ashraful Islam and senior officials of the ministry, among others, attended the press conference.
The ITPEC membership would enable the country to give internationally recognized certificate for the IT professionals and graduates, the minister said.
After becoming a member of ITPEC, Latif said Bangladesh will have the authority to hold Information Technology Engineers Examinations (ITEE) every year.
He said the ITEE is the examination for evaluating skill of IT engineers and successful candidates will get global recognition, which will ensure easy access to job markets.
“This is very good news for us that Bangladesh has been properly evaluated and selected by the IPA for awarding ITPEC membership due to fulfillment of the conditions including holding successfully IT Engineers Examinations that are required to get ITPEC membership,” Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary Md. Nazrul Islam Khan said.
He said as member of ITPEC Bangladesh will now be conducted ITEE each year and awarded internationally recognized certificate to the IT professionals and graduates.
The ITEE played an important role to develop confidence among the IT engineers for competing in the job markets worldwide, Khan said.
IT Engineer Management Project Director of BCC Sheikh Amzad Hossain said the ITEE is basically a national standard test of Japan for IT where 0.5-0.6 million students and professionals attended every year, he added.
Amzad said the country’s IT professionals and IT graduates need to identify their capacity and build confidence by sitting on an international IT standardize test. They can appear before the ITEE test to identify their capacity and build confidence for being competitive in the world arena, he added.
He said ITEE test is recognized in 12 Asian countries including the second largest IT job market Japan and also honored in the markets of European and American countries.