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Sajeeb Wazed

Biography

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HD | Sajeeb Wazed Joy biography

 

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Sajeeb Wazed: We will come back to power in Bangladesh

 

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Interview - Sajeeb Wazed, Adviser on ICT Affairs, Bangladesh

 

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মায়ের সঙ্গে যাত্রায় জয় দিলেন পদ্মা সেতুর টোল! | Sheikh Hasina | Sajeeb Wazed | Saima Wazed |Somoy TV

 

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'ডিজিটাল বাংলাদেশ নামটা জয়েরই দেয়া' | Sajeeb Wazed | Sheikh Hasina | Digital Bangladesh | Somoy TV

Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, also known as Sajeeb Wazed Joy, is a Bangladeshi businessman and politician. He is a member of the Awami League and serves as Advisor to the Government of Bangladesh on Information and Communication Technology. Wazed divides his time between Washington DC and Dhaka. He is the architect of Digital Bangladesh. The policies taken by him as the Prime Minister’s ICT Advisor opened a new horizon of ICT usage in Bangladesh as the country continues to improve rapidly in all indicators of technological advancement including mobile phone users, internet users, accessing public services digitally, mobile banking, and earnings from ICT exports. His policies has already contributed to Bangladesh receiving investment from Silicon Valley. It is a paradigm shift for Bangladesh to reach such a height in ICT from what it had been even less than a decade ago. Having a political leaning from family by virtue of being the grandson of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he was one of the key persons behind enabling Bangladesh to become a lower middle income country from a lower income one for the first time since its independence. Bangladesh is now set to reach the goal of becoming a higher middle income country by 2021 and a developed one by 2041 by harnessing the power of science and technology.
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