Development of National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, Bangladesh

Md.Shofiul Alam
2 min readApr 12, 2019

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If you heard about a country had rebranded with digital jargon for decades, certainly ‘Digital Bangladesh’ is the front runner, consequently Digital India, Nepal, Nigeria and so on.

The exciting story of the transformation of Digital Bangladesh has placed them into a leadership role for hundreds of under developing countries.

According to the IMF, Bangladesh’s economy is the second fastest growing major economy of 2016, with a rate of 7.1%

Bangladesh has turned from one of the world’s least developed countries into digitally developed nationally by 2021 has targetted to achieve $5billion revenue benchmark. Bangladesh has been classified as the next eleven emerging markets.

Bangladesh is embracing artificial intelligence (AI) for the digitalization of the nation. It has set principal vision is to become “AI FOR INNOVATIVE BANGLADESH”. Whereas, India wants to become ‘Garage of AI’, Malta wants to be ‘Launchpad of AI’ Germany’s vision is ‘AI Made in Germany’, Italy ‘AI at the Service of Citizen’. Since its inception, Digital Bangladesh has become front runner & role model for under developing countries, we can play the leadership role harnessing the 4IR & AI revolutions. In this strategic paper, we’re significantly addressing the ‘Job Filled Economic Growth’ & SDGs Goal. Initially, We’ve identified 8 main strategic pillars for Bangladesh AI future.

Bangladesh has released a draft outline of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Bangladesh-

If you have any feedback on this draft outline of ‘National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence of Bangladesh, pls write us deshai.office@gmail.com

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Md.Shofiul Alam

National AI Strategist, Technopreneur, Travel Junkie, Food Fanatic, Knowledge Geek, Founder of desh AI