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The ‘Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project’ of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division with its Startup Bangladesh banner is set to conduct a baseline survey on Startups in Bangladesh at the end of this month.
To this effect, a special workshop was held on Wednesday at the ICT Tower in the capital aiming to succeed in the survey.
More than 30 professional and experienced data collectors, who are working for this survey, have participated in the workshop.
The two-day long event was inaugurated by Mr. N M Ziaul Alam PAA, Senior Secretary, ICT Division.
Syed Mojibul Huq, Project Director (Additional Secretary) of iDEA Project chaired the programme.
Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Mr. Parthapratim Deb was present as the special guest.
About 17 sectors have been included in this survey like- Health, Food Processing, Medicine, Medical Treatment, Transport, Tourism, Legal, RMG Sector, Education, Infrastructure, E-Commerce/Marketplace, Financial Services, Agriculture, Media & Entertainment, Digital Services, E-Governance, etc.
In the meantime, plans have been taken to survey about 700 organisations initially from these sectors.
With this survey, it will be easy for the startups of Bangladesh to identify what is really important for them, whether they need to change or refine or amend the legal issues in some areas.
Effective steps will be taken to integrate special recommendations and challenges from the startups, including identifying where startups can make a special impact in certain areas of society, which will play an effective role in creating a special and well-organised ecosystem for startups.
At the end of March 2020, the field-level survey will be started and the survey will continue for three months.
Deputy Director of iDEA Project Kazi Hosna Ara, Senior Consultant to the project RHM Alaol Kabir, National Consultant for Communications of the project Shohag Chandra Das, legal consultant Adneen zeerin and other officials of the project were attended at the inauguration of the workshop.
Market and social research firm “Innovative Research & Consultancy (IRC) Limited" and “Adon Communications Ltd.” are the partners in the survey activity.