DHAKA, Feb 23, 2022 (BSS) - The changes in the labour market brought by 
Covid-19 epidemic and the 4IR will require new skills in the world job 
market. Therefore, Bangladesh seeks Canada's assistance in improving the 
quality of technical education to deal with the new requirement of skills. 

   The businessmen came up with this call at the virtual meeting of the 
Canada-Bangladesh Joint Working Group on strengthening commercial relations 
held on Tuesday, said a press release.    

   Member of the working group and director of the FBCCI Syed Almas Kabir 
presented a report on information technology and education at the meeting.

   According to a2i, the report says, in Bangladesh, the 4IR will make 
50percent of the job vulnerable by 2030.    

   According to the data presented at the meeting, in Bangladesh, 91.40 
percent of the labour force working in various sectors has no training. By 
2025, 7.2 million people will need sector-based training which will reach 
9.75 million by 2030, and more than 29 million by 2050.   

   Especially the skills in Cyber Security, Sensors and Machine Intelligence 
Algorithm, Big Data and Analytics, Block Chain-Distributed Ledger Technology, 
Simulation, Visualization and Digital Twin, Industrial Internet of Things, 
Autonomous robots, neural networking and machine learning, 3D printing, Cloud 
Edge Computing, Human-Machine Cooperation, Virtual augmented reality will 
appear to be necessary, the report says.   

   Syed Almas Kabir said, If Canadian technical education institutes set up 
campuses in Bangladesh or invest in joint ventures with local institutes in 
these sectors, it will become mutually beneficial for both the countries.   

   While speaking, FBCCI Director and the president of MCCI Dhaka Saiful 
Islam recommended to undertake exchange activities between Bangladesh and 
Canadian training institutes.   

   BPGMEA President Shamim Ahmed urged the Canadian Counterpart to establish 
linkages between BPGMEA training institute and the same kind in Canada. 

   The High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Canada Dr Khalil Rahman recommended 
to include the representatives from Business Council of Canada (BCC) and 
Manitoba Chamber of Commerce in the working group.    

   President of Cancham Bangladesh Masud Rahman, Editor of Travel Magazine 
"Vromon" and Adjunct Faculty of Daffodil University Abu Sufian, and the 
Secretary General of FBCCI Mohammad Mahfuzul Hoque were also present at the 
meeting.