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Digital ICT Fair begins on Saturday
The nine-day 'Digital ICT Fair-2009' will begin tomorrow at the Multiplan Centre at Elephant Road in the capital. With the slogan 'Let ICT be a Tool for Changing Days', the fair has been organised by the Multiplan Centre Shop Owners Association.
"We believe that the use of computer as well as information technologies would increase to a greater extent and its fruits would reach to the doorsteps of the people of all levels through the fair," Towfique Ehsan, convenor of the Digital ICT Fair-2009, told a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club yesterday .
He also expressed the hope that fair would help materialize the present government's vision to build Digital Bangladesh by 2021.
Around 400 shops will be set up from the fourth floor to the tenth floor on an area of about one lakh square feet at the Multiplan Centre, the largest IT market in the country. The fair also includes painting competition for children, debate, SMS and quiz competitions for students, seminar, symposium, free online ticket booking and internet browsing.
The entry fee of the fair has been fixed at Taka 10. However, school students can visit the fair without any fee.
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