It was a great year for the ICT sector of the country. 2015 was the year of harmonious growth in all the aspects. The government kept on pushing through its agenda of Digital Bangladesh. On the other hand, consistent growth took place in the private sector initiatives. Computer Jagat, the first and highest circulated ICT magazine of the country, likes to honor some movers and shakers of the IT/ITES Sector in Bangladesh for their outstanding contribution during 2015.

Women Sector
Ministry of Women and Children Affairs Honorable State Minister MeherAfrozeChumki, MP. She is a strong advocate of taking the benefit of Digital Bangladesh to the doorsteps of all the women in Bangladesh. We salute her for taking different ICT projects in her ministry.

Telecom Sector
Muhammed Aziz Khan, Chairman Summit Group is a renowned and pioneering leading business personality. He has established himself as a dynamic entrepreneur who has built Summit Group. He has taken bold steps to invest in the first ever Hitech Park of the country. He personally has taken initiative to promote Digital Bangladesh Vision.

Hardware Industry
Abdullah H Kafihas a long history in his contribution and expertise in the Bangladesh ICT industry as well as within the ASOCIO. He is a visionary with the drive to move the ICT industry within the region forward. He was one of the key founding members of the Bangladesh Computer Samity.

IT/ITES Industry
ShafquatHaidercurrently serves as the Director of FBCCI and is also the Chairman of the Industry Skills Council for ICT in Bangladesh, as well as Working Group Member Skills Census, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. He has enormous contribution in the ICT and ITES industry of the country for the last 35 years.

Syed Farhad Ahmed, a well acknowledged visionary businessman, leads one of the most successful IT companies in Bangladesh, aamra technologies limited as its Managing Director. Under his able leadership, combined with his charismatic personality and motivational capabilities, he tends to bring out the very best in all of Aamra’s team members.

Forkan Bin Quasemhas 21 years of experience in managing ICT solution business and building one of the five best ICT companies in Bangladesh, Member of the India Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Member of the Board of Directors in leading ICT Industry Association. He also has real life Experience in Data Center, Claude Structure, Networking, ERP, Storage, Project Management, CMMI, ISO, PMP certifications.

Government Sector
Kabir Bin Anwar, DG Admin, PMO and Project Director A2i has shown exemplary leadership in winning ITU’s WSIS the prestigious award in ‘Access to Information and Knowledge’ category. Nearly 25,000 websites and 42,000 government offices are connected to Bangladesh, www.bangladesh.gov.bd.

Banking Sector
AbulKashem Md. Shirin is currently working as DMD at Dutch Bangla Bank Limited. He has been instrumental in leading the expansion of IT infrastructure in the banking sector. He has helped roll out countrywide ATM network easing the business and tourism in the country.

Civil Society
Asif Saleh, Specialties: Media, Communication, ICT4D, Philanthropy, New Media, mobile banking, Social Enterprise. He served as an Executive Director at Goldman, Sachs until 2008 until he decided to return to Bangladesh and work in the development sector. In 2001, he started the then Internet based startup Drishtipat.

ICT4D Sector
VashkarBhattacharjeeis primarily engaged as a Program Manager of Young Power in Social Action (YPSA). He is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of disability and ICT related activities in YPSA. He serves as focal person for DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) in Bangladesh.

e-Commerce Sector
Razib Ahmed is the founding president of e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB). e-CABwitnessed unprecedented growth within just 14 months having 300+ members. He showed exceptional skill in making the best use of social media like Facebook and Skype. He is the admin of e-CAB Facebook Group.

Academia
Dr. M Rokonuzzaman is a Professor in Electrical Engineering (Robotics and Intelligent Systems). Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NF, Canada. His work primarily focuses on maximizing wealth creation for Bangladesh and other developing countries.

Digital Content Sector
Samira ZuberiHimika is the Founder & Managing Director of Team Engine. Recently her R&D team introduced global innovation first complete ‘Bangla Optical Character Recognizer’ (compatible for more than 120+ bangla fonts) to enable digitalization of Bangla contents and also introduced Bangla Corpus and Bangla Text-to-Speech.

Young Entrepreneur
Tanvir A MishukAt the age of 30 he is one of the most successful businessmen of Bangladesh as well as internationally recognized figure. His business ventures include Telecommunications, trading, international franchise restaurants and forex companies, all are under TASIA HOLDINGS.