Bangladesh is going to G-Cloud in June next year

Bangladesh will join G-Cloud as the fourth country in the world in June next year. As a result, the country's information will be protected within the country's borders, said the ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Information and Communication Technology at the MoU handover ceremony held between the ICT Division and Oracle Bangladesh at the ICT Tower on Tuesday. In addition, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said that the ICT Division will take initiative to teach AI, machine learning and data analytics in addition to teaching coding from primary education to build innovative, creative, problem-solving skilled human resources in building a smart Bangladesh.

According to the agreement held on September 22 last year, the State Minister's letter to assist the Human Resource Development Department of ICT with the necessary facilities to develop the local talents for the future was handed over by Rubaba Daula, the Managing Director of Oracle Bangladesh for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

The event was chaired by Additional Secretary ICT Division Naveed Shafiullah and was addressed by Garrett Eck, President of Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific, among others.

While speaking as the chief guest, Zunaid Ahmed said, "We are preparing the data protection law for the data protection of the country by looking at the laws of countries like GDPR, United Nations, United States and United Kingdom." The information is kept in their own country to protect the information of those countries. Only three countries in the world have such a G-Cloud; Australia, Oman and Qatar. We are running such a cloud server at National Data Center in collaboration with Oracle. When it goes live, we will be the fourth country to have G-Cloud servers. Our data in our G-Cloud will remain within our country's borders. Data security will be ensured.

After cutting the cake and revealing the agreement in front of the media workers, in response to various questions from the journalists, ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said that through this agreement, Oracle Academy will provide free training to young people on disruptive technology. We will work with all ministries including the Ministry of Education as a member of the 'Blended Education Task Force' to develop industry-friendly technology skilled human resources in the country. Also, the necessary technology will be given to educational institutions and teachers.

Meanwhile, Rubaba Daula announced to give free cloud training to women in Bangladesh soon. She said that in the last 14 years, per capita income in Bangladesh has quadrupled due to widespread adoption of digital services by government departments and every section of society. Succeeding in keeping up with this progress requires building a workforce with industry-relevant knowledge and digital skills. Through Oracle Academy, we will provide free technical support to educational institutions and their teachers to develop their students as ICT competent human resources.

It is worth noting that, Australia, Oman and Qatar have previously moved to G-Cloud.