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Business Reporter

IT export of the country is likely to reach US $150 million by 2011 according to the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).

Addressing at a press conference about upcoming BASIS SoftExpo 2009 Habibullah N Karim, President of BASIS yesterday said this.

The five days SoftExpo will be held at Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Centre from January 27 of 2009. TeleConsult Group is the consultant partner of the event.

Mentioning present IT market dim, he said BASIS SoftExpo 2009, which is recognised as an international event, would bring momentum to IT export and economy of the country as well.

President of BASIS hoped that the 6th Software exposition would help create a global platform showcasing the immense potentials, resources and skills available in Bangladesh.

Quoting a report of International Trade Centre Habibullah said Bangladesh would be able to increase IT export to $150 million by 2011.

BASIS with its 40 members leaves country today for USA to participate at OutsourceWorld-New York, which is the premier pure play business trade platform focused on executives who have a need to outsource business services.

He opined that this trade platform would give Bangladesh opportunity to show up its potentiality in Global IT market.

Following the success of the event in the recent years BASIS SoftExpo has earned the reputation of the biggest ICT event in the country. The exposition creates a platform of interaction between different groups including Software providers, buyers, IT users, professionals, media policy majors, development partners, students as well as a wide range of people across the society.

Organisers hoped that participants from abroad would take part in the expo and more than two hundred organizations would participate in it. Delegates from Japan, Denmark, United Kingdom and United States of America will also visit in this expo.

Among others, MA Mubin Khan, Director, Shameem Ahsan, Vice President, Nahid Ahmed, Secretary General of BASIS, Rafiqul Islam Rowly, Chairman of National Event Committee and Naila Choudhury, Chairman and CEO of TeleConsult Group, Nasim Ali Khan, Managing Partner of TeleConsult Group were present at the conference.