Speakers at a seminar on ‘Apps Development: Challenges and Opportunities’ on Sunday called upon the mobile application developers to come up with a specific proposal
about the hurdles to entering the international apps market.
The government will remove the barriers and open up window to catch the mobile software market, they told the seminar organised by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.
They said Bangladesh’s earning from the international mobile software market is zero at a time when the mobile software developers and marketplace have earned about $8.1 billion in 2012.
Chaired by ICT minister Mostafa Faruque Mohammad, the seminar was addressed among others by Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman, ICT secretary Nazrul Islam Khan and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Service secretary general Russel T Ahmed, Google country consultant Kazi Monirul Kabir and Elance country manager Saidur Mamun Khan.
‘Bangladesh Bank has conservatism in some cases, but it has started opening window to expand the country’s information technology sector,’ said Atiur.
If necessary, the BB will make flexible the procedure in the interest of getting remittance from apps development business, he said.
Atiur said the central bank has allowed the use of international credit cards to
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-With New Age input
