Speakers at an international conference in Bangkok have said Bangladesh is trying to cope with advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and drive out its drawbacks.
They were speaking at the Rangasit University international research conference on ‘Science and Technology, Social science and Humanities Big Data and New Face of Asia: Reflection in Science, Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities" in Bangkok on Apr 26, said a press release.
Muhammad Mahboob Ali, macro economist and entrepreneurial expert of Dhaka School of Economics, was the keynote speaker was in the management, accounting, finance, business, economics track of the event.
In his paper, he said socio- economic and technological forces of the planet is a part and parcel of the uplift jointly with the 4th industrial revolution in relation to the forces which will eventually alter the employment opportunities with the help of machine learning, digitization, artificial intelligence and big data.
Prof Ali argued that Bangladesh has obtained unprecedented technological advancement through the ruling party's "Digital Bangladesh" manifesto.
Referring to Bangladesh’s young population, he said that technical and vocational education as well training and other skill development progammes are being implemented under the government to turn this huge population into resources.
As per government’s goal, Dhaka School of Economics may introduce Bachelor of Entrepreneurship Economics programme, subject to approval from the University of Dhaka.
He argued that Bangladesh is trying to cope with advantage of 4IR and driven out drawbacks of 4IR.
As many as 70 researchers from Australia, UK, Japan, Australia, Thailand, ASEAN countries, India, and Bangladesh participated in the conference.