Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mostafa Jabbar has said that Bangladesh has called for a digital revolution in the world in 2008 after two industrial revolutions were completely and the third industrial revolution was partially missed. Three years later, the word of the Fourth Industrial Revolution was first uttered. Eight years later the idea of the Fourth Industrial Revolution was published. We are building digital highways or digital connectivity highways. At the same time, we must be proactive in fulfilling our responsibility to ensure the security of the Internet. We need to move to IPV (Internet Protocol version) 6 now to adapt to the changes in digital technology. At the same time the quality of telecom and internet services must be ensured. He directed all concerned agencies of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications, including BTRC, to create awareness about the requirements of the latest version of the technology 5G and its application and to implement the pilot project.
The Minister was speaking as the chief guest at a workshop on ‘Challenges to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Expansion of Five-G Technology’ organized by the Department of Posts and Telecommunications at the Conference Room of the Department of Posts and Telecommunications at the Bangladesh Secretariat today.
BTRC Chairman Shyam Sundar Sikder, Additional Secretary of Posts and Telecommunications Md. Mahbub-ul-Alam, Managing Director of BTCL Dr. Md. Rafiqul Matin and Director General of BTRC Brigadier General Md. Nasim Parvez spoke in the program while Posts and telecommunication Secretary Md. Khalilur Rahman presided over the meeting. BUET’s professor Dr. Muhammad Mahfuzul Islam presented the main article in the program. .
Mentioning that the Fourth Industrial Revolution has ushered us into the data age, the Minister of Telecommunications said that the name of future resources in the world is data. I want my data to be in my country. The Minister noted that work has begun to ensure that data is kept in one’s own hands.
Mostafa Jabbar, a pioneer in the development of digital technology, said that technology is constantly changing and there is no alternative to working with the mindset of adapting to the changing technology.
Noting that 5G mobile technology is not just a talking technology, the minister said its application in various fields including industry, trade, agriculture and fisheries would initiate unimaginable changes in the country’s economy. Mr. Mostafa Jabbar, the father of Bengali language in digital technology, expressed deep gratitude to Steve Jobs for his invention in introducing Bangla language in computer and said that he gave opportunity to use non-English language in computer. Following this, I was able to start the journey of publishing magazines in Bangla language on computer in the year 1987.
He said that following the implementation of Digital Bangladesh program announced by undisputed politician Sheikh Hasina in 2008, Bangladesh has achieved the ability to lead the world in the fourth industrial revolution by overcoming hundreds of years of backwardness in technology by missing three past industrial revolutions.
Calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution an instrumental civilization revolution, he said that the Western world, including Japan, was now thinking of a digital human revolution, the 5th Industrial Revolution or Society Five Point Zero. Now not limited to IT technology, digital technology will be the main force to meet the challenges of the future. The Minister noted that students, especially IT students, need to be created as skilled digital human resources by engaging them in real life.
The Secretary Posts and Telecommunications emphasized the need to create awareness about the application of 5G technology. He called upon the stakeholders to be more proactive in order to innovate digital technologies and make the innovative technologies widely affect people’s lives.
The BTRC chairman said that data analysis would be the most expensive thing in the fourth industrial revolution. He emphasized the need to adapt to the challenges ahead.
In the original article, Dr. Mahfuzul Islam mentioned that the big data is very significant in the fourth industrial revolution. He said, we need to create human resources suitable for the digital age. He mentioned in the main article that 5G technology would play a very effective role in making Bangladesh a leader in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.