Ensure easy transfer of technology, PM to world community
M Humayun Kabir: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the international community to ensure easy transfer of technology at low cost worldwide to face the possible challenges and risks during the era of this ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’.
The premier came up with the call while delivering her speech at the World Economic Forum’s plenary session titled ‘sustainable development in the fourth industrial revolution’ at the plenary hall of the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, reports UNB.
Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque briefed reporters after the event.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Johnson & Johnson CEO and Mozilla Firefox CEO were invited to attend the WEF’s plenary session held with president of the World Economic Forum Borge Brende in the chair.
In her response, Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh was a small country having huge population. ‘So, the biggest challenges are to ensure their food security, provide them with proper education and equipped them technologically so that they can secure jobs in the changed situation,’ she said.
‘The international community has the responsibility so that we can get the technology easily at low cost as we’re not major technology-producing countries.’
Later, WEF president Borge Brende sat in a separate meeting with the Bangladesh prime minister at the call on Room of place of residence.
The WEF president invited the prime minister to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum to be held at Davos in Switzerland in January 2019.
Hasina also had a meeting with Queen Maxima of the Netherlands at the UN headquarters.
The Dutch queen said Bangladesh had done better than many other countries in the financial inclusion index and assured of working with Bangladesh continuously in this regard.