The government has decided to produce low-cost land phone and mobile phone sets, laptop and different telephone tools and machinery in the country. Under the imitative, Bangladesh Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (BTSS) has already floated an international tender to procure necessary technology and equipment from abroad, according to sources in the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
The Election Commission has given over 3,000 laptops to three ministries, from a stock of around 8,000 used to prepare the voter roll ahead of the last general election, an official said on Monday.
The government will give land for free to the entrepreneurs setting up laptop manufacturing factories in Bangladesh to make the portable computers available at lower prices.
The port city enjoyed a cool breeze of digital wave in this hot summer
A three-day laptop fair in Chittagong that ends today has drawn the attention of a good number of visitors.
No one can easily define it. But the next phase of the computer revolution is busy being born out of the ashes of the current economic crisis.
The City IT Fair 2009 is gaining momentum through a grand line-up of simple, but interesting events and contests. In the first three days, the fair saw an average of 10,000 visitors though the turnout of visitors was low at the fair amid BDR mutiny on the opening day.
India has unveiled plans to produce a laptop computer costing just 10 dollars in a bid to improve the skills of millions of students across the country.
Visitor at the second day of 'Zoom laptop Fair 2009'.
To create awareness among selective groups of target customers like corporate personnel, business people, university students and to provide different brands of laptop to potential buyers under one shed, a three day "Zoom Laptop Fair" began at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka on Wednesday.
