SM Kausarul Islam in BASIS SoftExpo 2008

Covering a fair or expo is a difficult work for journalists. There are so many people in the fair that it is easy to lose track and also it is difficult to collect information at a large crowd. So, media support has become an integral part of any large fair in Bangladesh. BASIS has arranged a media support center in SoftExpo 2008 and today, we from Business Bangladesh Updates (BBU) had a fast hand experience of media facility at SoftExpo 2008. We also had a friendly chat with SM Kausarul Islam who is Program Associate and media coordinator of BASIS SoftExpo-2008.

SM Kausarul Islam was quick to give us the necessary information related to the Expo. We also give him our email and he promised to send regular press releases. We wanted to take his interview and talked some more. He talked to us about the responsibilities he had related to BASIS SoftExpo. He was a journalist in the past but now, he is working for BASIS. Mr. Islam viewed that we have a large pool of educated people and we need to give them proper training so that they become skilled workforce. We need to motivate them for hard work and toward Information Technology. He felt that Bangladesh has a great opportunity to become successful in outsourcing. He said that Denmark was the theme country of SoftExpo 2008 and some Danish companies were eager to give outsourcing works to Bangladeshi companies.

He thanked the journalists of Bangladesh for their support towards the ICT sector. Mr. Islam praised the role of media in the development of ICT sector of Bangladesh. He said that it was very nice that Bangladeshi media understand the importance of ICT and that is why they give adequate coverage towards any ICT event.

At the end, we wanted to know about the facilities being given to the media at SoftExpo. He showed us a number of laptops and we sat in one of them. We were very happy with Internet speed of the laptop and we could do our work quite smoothly. We saw some other journalists doing the same thing at the media center. Some other journalists came and we had to finish our friendly chat with SM Kausarul Islam. Mr. Islam again became busy in serving other journalists. Mr. Islam is skilled in his work- no doubt about that but the thing that attracted us most was his modesty.