Joy’s 50th birthday today

The 50th birthday of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the only son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the eldest grandson of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is being celebrated today (July 27).

Sajeeb Wazed, also the PM's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser, was born on July 27 of 1971 during the Liberation War of Bangladesh to the country's prominent nuclear scientist Dr MA Wazed Miah and Sheikh Hasina.

Joy studied at St. Joseph's College, India. He enrolled in Computer Science at the University of Bangalore, and then he transferred to The University of Texas at Arlington in America and received B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from this university.

He completed Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Under his supervision and outstanding contribution in ICT sector, the country is transforming gradually into a Digital Bangladesh. The major contribution of Joy lies in the development of the ICT sector of Bangladesh.

The policies taken by him as the Prime Minister's ICT Advisor opened a new era 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.

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