Two Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology teams became champions and runners-up in the Daffodil Inter-University Computer Programming Contest 2010.
The Dhaka University team finished the third in the contest involving 80 teams of 30 public and private universities in the Daffodil International University auditorium on Saturday.
The contestants had to solve nine problems in five hours between 10:00am and 3:00pm.
Addressing the award ceremony, the speakers of different institutions emphasized the implementation of the vision of digital Bangladesh for which manpower skilled in IT and computer programmers were essential.
They said the government should take initiative to arrange the programming contest every year nationally to create new programmers.
There was no option but to building manpower skilled in IT for innovation and development of the ICT services, they said.
Referring to India’s annual income of $73 billion from IT sector, they said Bangladesh earned only $33 million every year. WiMax service provider Banglalion and online IT magazine comjagat.com also provided support.
