Mustafa Jabbar [ Minister of Post and Telecommunication ]

Mustafa Jabbar (born 12 August 1949) is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur, and the current Minister of Post and Telecommunication in the Government of Bangladesh.

Mustafa Jabbar also served as the president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS).

Mustafa Jabbar [ Minister of Post and Telecommunication ]

He is best known for the creation of the Bijoy Bengali keyboard, which was developed in 1988, and it was the most widely used Bengali input method until the release of the Unicode-based Avro Keyboard. He served as the president of Bangladesh Computer Samity, the national ICT organization of Bangladesh for four consecutive periods.

He is a champion of Bangla Bhasha Procholon Ain, 1987, and has been praised for promoting the Bengali language in the digital media.

Mustafa Jabbar’s ancestral home is in Krishnapur village, Khaliajuri Upazila in the Netrokona district. He was born on Ashuganj Upazila in Brahmanbaria District to Abdul Jabbar Talukdar and Rabeya Khatun.

Mustafa Jabbar passed his HSC examination from Dhaka College. In 1968, he enrolled in the Department of Bangla at the University of Dhaka and completed his BA in 1972 and MA in journalism in 1974.

Mustafa Jabbar started his career as a journalist in 1972 for Daily Ganakantha until it’s shut down in 1975. In 1973, he was elected as the publicity secretary of the Dhaka Union of Journalists. He got involved in the businesses of travel agencies, printing, and publication.

He had served as the general secretary of the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh (ATAB). Jabbar is a founder member of the Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) and its four-time president. He also anchored television shows on IT. Jabbar founded Ananda Computers, best known for developing the Bangla keyboard Bijoy.

He heads the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services — the trade body of IT entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Jabbar started a venture involving computers and IT in 1987 and launched the Bijoy Bangla Keyboard and Software on 16 December 1988. His first novel named Nokshotrer Onager was published in 2005.

His second novel named Suborne Shekorh was published in the fortnightly Tarokalok’s Eid issue of 2006.[citation needed] He has developed Bijoy Library, a library management Software that is being used by libraries of Bangladesh including the British Council.

He has developed software named Bijoy Shishu Shiksha for pre-school kids. He developed Prathomik Computer Shiksha, based on textbooks published by National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB).

He established schools in Bangladesh including computer-based Ananda Multimedia School and Bijoy Digital School. He is involved in writing textbooks on computers in Bangla and English.

Mustafa Jabbar sat on several government committees on ICT affairs, including the prime minister–formed Digital Bangladesh Taskforce.

He is also a member of the Bangladesh Copyright Board. He was appointed as the Minister of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology of the Government of Bangladesh on 3 January 2018.

Mustafa Jabbar was a member of Mujib Bahini (Bangladesh Liberation Force) in 1971 and participated in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.

He was involved in the movement for freedom of the press and was actively associated with the Dhaka Union of Journalists. He was elected as the Organising Secretary of the Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ).

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