ABOUT OUR VICE CHAIRMAN
SM Ashraful Islam
Mr. S M Ashraful Islam is the Executive Vice Chairman at eGeneration Ltd, one of the leading software companies in system integration IT consultancy, digital platforms, NLP, machine learning & AI, Blockchain, Bigdata and Training etc.
Mr. Islam served as a civil servant and retired as an Additional Secretary of the government of Bangladesh. Before retirement, he was working as the Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council.
He is an IT enthusiast and tech-entrepreneur. He was one of the few civil servants who are experienced in policy formulation, service innovation and transformation of public service delivery through ICT interventions. He is one of the mentors who engaged in grooming civil servants and other stakeholders in pursuing the agenda of digital transformation and change management. One of the renowned tech influencers in the country pursuing vision 2021: Digital Bangladesh. He is also specialized in organizational reform & BPR.
Mr. Islam has phenomenal experience in health service delivery and related policies. He also gathered profound experience in the education sector with practical experience of formulation and implementation of related policy and strategies together with monitoring and evaluation.
He has contributed towards the formulation of different policies like national ICT policy, ICT Master Plan for the education sector. He is a great advocate of IT/ITES industry achieving its goal of 5bn dollar export 2021 by government policy reform and industry capacity development. He is a specialist on the digital transformation of the government infrastructure, IT/ITES, industry development of Bangladesh in the context of emerging technology and its application.
Mr. Islam, until recently was working as Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). As the executive director of BCC, he played a pivotal role in the adoption of information and communication technology in the public service. In this area, he implemented several projects to establish e-governance across government organizations.
He led the BCC team to implement major initiatives to materialize Vision 2021: Digital Bangladesh. Highlights of those are:
(I) Development of Government-wide Intranet for Government of Bangladesh connecting over 18,000 Government offices across the country. Mr. Islam also played an instrumental role to contribute to the initiative of building a country-wide National Cyber Defense System to fight the fast-growing cybercrime, intellectual property theft, IT infrastructure abuse.
(ii) Development of a Tier-4 data center in the country,
(iii) Establishment of National Enterprise Architecture, and
(iv) Development of industry-ready human resources for the IT Industry to realize vision 2021: digital Bangladesh.
In addition to these, few of his initiatives have helped minimize the digital divide through ICT training of women and persons with disabilities.
Prior to joining BCC, he served as Additional Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh. He comes with decades of experience in the civil service, starting from field administration to the secretariat level. He has a blend of working experience in senior positions in the Ministries of Education, Health and Primary Education with a record of reform and BPR. While working with the government, he particularly explored the opportunity for government and industry collaboration. Most Importantly built an effective partnership among Industry, academia, and government.