Bangladeshgateway.org launched

Discussants at the Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation (BdDGF)

Sabur Khan, managing director, Daffodil Computers Ltd, Abu Sayeed Khan, telecom expert, Azhar H Chowdhury, director, CITech Communications Ltd, Akhteruzzaman, president, Bangladesh Multimedia Society, Mohaymen Farhad, project manager, Grameen Telecom, Shahid Uddin Akbar, coordinator, ICT for Development Program, Abdul Hakim, secretary, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Reza Salim, associate director, Bangladesh Friendship Education Society, Farida Aktar, program officer, BCDJC, Syed Ziaul Habib, officer, The Hunger Project, Harisuzzaman, deputy director, Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and Mesbah Uddin from ICTDP were the discussants of the round table. Habiba Tasneem Chowdhury, executive director, BdDGF was the moderator of the discussion.

The discussants said that this common web portal may publish all the documents, books and curriculum of primary education online so that all the educational institutions in Thana level can login to this portal and get access to them immediately. It was also said that the medical sector can be benefited from portal. It can help the doctors all over the Bangladesh to get the updates on the latest development in medical sector. This portal can also reduce the controversy over different data, information between the Government and NGO. People of different walks of our society will get all types of information from the portal. The discussants also expressed that they should build up a strong network to make all the information of this web portal regularly updated. For this, all the discussants signed an accord with BdDGF. This portal will act in strengthening access to public domain information.