The government has initiated ensuring internet services for the students of every school and college of the country. Tele Communication minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju, Tuesday at a national seminar on information sharing said, that the same service will be made available for union level people also.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has said one of the biggest services that science and technology can render to humanity will be in providing the environmental solutions which the world so actively seeks, and the Commonwealth can play a role in helping developing countries to access that help through partnerships.
President Zillur Rahman on Monday stressed the need for expanding the education of science and technology for transforming the country’s huge population into human resources.
The government should adapt a separate Public Private Partnership (PPP) guideline for its small-scale Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects as the existing one does not meet the sector's needs, a top social IT entrepreneur said Saturday.
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.
Extortion and threat to high profile people over mobile phone are going on unchecked as law enforcers hardly take measures to track down the miscreants who manage to have Subscribers Identity Module cards providing false information in registration procedure.
The country's pioneer WiMax service provider Qubee on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Intel Corporation, world leader in silicon innovation to jointly propagate broadband internet along with wireless solutions to enable inclusive economic growth in Bangladesh. Qubee and Intel will now jointly promote the business and technology of WiMAX, according to the MoU.
Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Friday said mobile telephone could be a prime tool for mass people in money transaction as well as information source in realizing the dream of building digital Bangladesh.
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.
From now on, the country's exporters don't have to wait for long to know about the detailed queries from the importers' end, instead they can go to Export Promotion Bureau to contact buyers directly through video conferencing.
