SMEs to get one-stop service centres

SME Foundation and Aspire to Innovate (a2i) yesterday announced that they will jointly develop over 8,250 digital centres across the country as one-stop service centres for local small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.

The entrepreneurs will be able to get space, training and consultancy from those centres.

Both the organisations, meanwhile, started implementing the activities of the pilot programme in 30 union digital centres in 27 upazilas of 22 districts all over the country.

NM Zeaul Alam, senior secretary to the ICT division, inaugurated the activities of the pilot programme in 30 digital centres at Agargaon, Dhaka yesterday, a press release said.

The state-owned entities also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard at the event.

Dewan Muhammad Humayun Kabir, project director of the multinational digital transformation organisation a2i, and Md Mafizur Rahman, managing director of SME Foundation, signed the MoU.

Currently, 16,087 entrepreneurs are providing more than 320 public and private services, including banking and e-commerce services, in 8,297 digital centers across the country.