Center for 4IR is going to be established in Bangladesh this year in joint partnership with WEP under the supervision of World Economic Forum. At the same time, the State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak has proposed setting up a 4IR lab as a resource integration center in the North South University, a private university located in Dhaka.
He made this promise while speaking as the chief guest at the concluding session of the 4IR Skills Summit held at the main campus of the university at Bashundhara on Thursday evening. At the same time, he urged the university to submit innovative projects and prototypes.
The ICT State Minister said that in the fourth industrial revolution, there are huge changes in technology, biology and psychology every day. New innovative services are coming. I have been using OpenAI ChatGPT regularly for the past few days. It seems that in the coming days basic daily tasks will be done by robots or AI. To adapt to this change we need to be adept at frontier technologies. You have to adapt yourself to use them. In this regard, we have set up the Innovation Design Entrepreneur Academy on the advice of Prime Minister’s Honorable ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Innovative grants for students. 382 startups have been funded so far. In this way, the ICT department is ready to provide all kinds of support to the students of the university who want to become entrepreneurs.
North South University Vice-Chancellor Atiqul Islam presided over the event and the Dean of Science and Engineering School of the University Dr. Javed Bari delivered the welcome speech.