Mustafa Jabbar
Mustafa Jabbar (pronounced [mostapʰa dʒɔbbar]; born 12 August 1949) is a Bangladeshi businessman, technology entrepreneur and a former Minister of Post and Telecommunication in the Government of Bangladesh. He also served as the president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). He is best known for the creation of Bijoy Bengali keyboard, which was developed in 1988, and it was most widely used Bengali input method until the release of Unicode based Avro Keyboard. He served as the president of Bangladesh Computer Samity, the national ICT organisation 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 | |
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মোস্তাফা জব্বার | |
Jabbar in 2018 | |
| Minister of Posts and Telecommunications | |
| In office 19 May 2019 – 29 November 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Preceded by | Himself (as Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology) |
| Succeeded by | vacant |
| Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology | |
| In office 7 January 2019 – 19 May 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Preceded by | Himself |
| Succeeded by | Himself (as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications) |
| In office 2 January 2018 – 9 December 2018 | |
| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 August 1949 Brahmanbaria, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now in Bangladesh) |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka |