Roundtable on 'One year of Digital Bangladesh'
Despite some developments towards 'Digital Bangladesh', coordination in achieving the goal has become the most essential need of the time, speakers said at a roundtable on 'One year of Digital Bangladesh'- organised by Bangladesh ICT Journalist Forum (BIJF) on January 16.
They also suggested appointing an adviser to oversee the process and reforming the ministries concerned to make it organised, if necessary.
Hasanul Haq Inu, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for post and telecommunication ministry chaired the roundtable while Dr. Akram Hossain Chowdhury, MP and chairman of Centre for e-Parliament Research was special guest at the event. Mohammad Kawsar Uddin, president, BIJF, convened the roundtable.
Inu at the event said a lot of effort is already in process towards developing 'Digital Bangaldesh', but people are unaware of the situation because of irregular developments and lack of information. He expressed the need of a coordinator to centrally manage the whole process.
The speakers also expressed the need of public and private partnership towards faster implementation of the vision 2021.
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