State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak left Dhaka at 10:40 pm on Tuesday for a ten-day visit to New York. After celebrating Eid in his constituency, he flew with his mother on an Emirates Airlines flight EK 585.
NM Zeaul Alam, Senior Secretary, Department of Information and Communication Technology, bade farewell to the State Minister for ICT at the VIP Lounge of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
According to the flight schedule, the ICT state minister will land in the United States at 2 pm on Wednesday. He will attend the “Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert” to be held on May 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York on the first day of the official visit which will continue till May 14. In addition to Harvard University, Zunaid Ahmed Palak will be visiting MIT and UC Berkeley and the World Bank office.
He also will exchange views with senior officials of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and ICT investors, and sign a memorandum of understanding with the Harvard Mittal South Asia Institute on ‘knowledge sharing in the ICT sector’.
The state minister is scheduled to visit the office of world-renowned software company Microsoft in San Francisco and meet with the chief executive and managing director of Oracle, a multinational computer technology and software maker based in Silicon Valley.
It is to be noted that the Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert will be held at Madison Square Garden in New York in collaboration with the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority at the initiative of the Department of Information and Communication Technology on the occasion of commemoration of the ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ held in 1971 and gratitude for this great work.
The world famous band Scorpion will sing at the concert. Scorpions is a heavy metal and rock music band from Hanover, Germany. Along with the Scorpions, the Bangladeshi band ‘Chirkut’ will also perform in the concert.
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Proceeds from the concert will be used by the United Nations Development Program- UNDP to raise awareness of cyber security among the children in developing countries.
