There has been a vast change in government mindset as the digitisation process it initiated has helped make its services public. The observation came from Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, an eminent writer, while he spoke at the concluding ceremony of the three-day Digital Innovation Fair 2010 in the capital yesterday.
Speakers at a seminar on Friday stressed the need for digitizing the government at local levels speedily by integrating the activities of all ministries and divisions in order to reach government services to the people at the grass roots through utilizing digital technology. State Minister for science and Information Communication Technology Architect Yeafesh Osman said it would be possible to establish Digital Bangladesh much ahead of the targeted 2021 as the administration from top to botom has been prepared mentally for geting digitized.
The first ever three-day Digital Innovation Fair, 2010 begins in city today with a view to encourage people using modern information and communication technologies for building a ‘Digital Bangladesh’. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the fair at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre at 10am.
Secretary General of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Dr. Hamadoun I Toure has lauded the vision of Digital Bangladesh-2021 as set by Prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday unveiled an ambitious digitisation plan for building Bangladesh as a country fully furnished with modern telecommunications system for faster delivery of services to the people.
The government has re-constituted the executive committee of 'national task force on information and communication technology (ICT)' changing its name to 'Digital Bangladesh Task Force'.
The government is planning to reach the mobile information communication technology (ICT) laboratory to some 1,000 secondary schools across the country within this year aiming to bring about qualitative change in the education system, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Tuesday.
Bangladesh has got its own 64 web portals for each of its 64 districts. The prime minister inaugurated the web portals on January 6. These web portals contain almost all the information a citizen requires.
The country's apex body for formulating strategies for Digital Bangladesh would sit together next month in what would be the first meeting of the national task force for ICT affairs in 18 months, sources within the government revealed Tuesday.
SoftExpo-2010 will be kicked off Wednesday at the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre with the participation of over 150 local and international companies. Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the lone organization to promote the country''s booming software industry, is organizing the biggest software exposition with the theme of ''Digital Bangladesh in Action''.
