State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak has emphasized on forging partnership with Cyber Wales, a Wales-based representative body to encourage collaboration through clusters, events and competitions and to identify opportunities for the cyber communities, to advance Bangladesh-UK partnership toward Digital Solidarity, reports BSS.
The state minister laid the emphasis as he held discussion with John Davies, Co-Founder and Chairman of Cyber Wales in Newport, United Kingdom, on September 2, an official release said on Saturday.
Saida Muna Tasneem, Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Faheem Azhar, International Strategic Advisor and Middle East Cluster Manager for Cyber Wales, were also present on the occasion, among others,
In furtherance to previously signed MoU in early 2021 between The state-run Bangladesh e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-Gov CIRT) and Cyber Wales in the United Kingdom to mark the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh's independence, both Zunaid Ahmed Palak and John Davies have shown confidence in working more closely in the near future and enable further development of Cyber Cluster, Cyber Skills Growth Working Group, Cyber Accelerator Initiatives and Cyber Incubation Centre development in Bangladesh
Palak at the discussion, aspired that the government of Bangladesh and Cyber Wales will work more intensively together to develop a digital economy and invest in Cyber Skills and develop stronger Cyber Trade relations with Cyber Wales
"Bangladesh is going to be one of the leaders in cyber security and will be developing the Cyber Centre for Excellence with our international partners like Cyber Wales. All these initiatives will ensure online security in our country. He pointed out that it is not possible for any country to deal with cyber security alone and said that effective action should be taken collectively through international communication," he added.
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