Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Thursday inaugurated the Software Quality Testing and Certification (SQTC) Centre at Agargaon’s ICT Division.
Speaking at the inauguration, Joy said: “Bangladesh has advanced one step forward through this initiative to set up the SQTC Centre.”
Describing the centre as a milestone for Bangladesh’s software industry, Joy said it was previously necessary to test and gain certification for software overseas, reports BSS.
Alongside the SQTC centre, Joy also inaugurated a computer incident response team, and an accelerator lab for startups with the objective of developing 1000 innovative products by 2021, an official release said.