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Nat’l congress on ICT for development held
The national congress on ICT for Development 2009 "PrepCom" was held on Saturday at Agargaon in the city ahead of the World Congress on ICT for Development (WCID) to be held in Beijing, China.
Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology supported the event.
State Minister for Science and Information and Communication Technology Architect Yeafesh Osman was present at the programme as the chief guest.
Professor Dr M Abdus Sobhan of Independent University Bangladesh chaired the programme. Professor Dr MA Mottalib of Islamic University of Technology presented the keynote speech.
The state minister said the government would provide full support to flourish ICT in Bangladesh. The ICT policy will be approved after proper scrutiny, he added.
"Information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most effective tools to turn our country into digital Bangladesh," the state minister added.
Dr Mottalib gave an overall idea of the recent condition of information technology in Bangladesh.
In the keynote speech, he put emphasis on introducing digital money transaction system and digital land recording process in Bangladesh immediately.
At the programme, which was divided into four sessions, ICT experts from different sectors presented papers. In the presentations, they depicted a picture of how information and communication technologies are being used to alleviate poverty, increase quality of education and reduce the socio-economic discrimination.
They showed how to make people aware of something using different communication devices in emergency such as a natural calamity.
Main purpose of the seminar was to get people from the industry and academia sitting together to share ideas and opportunities in the process of ICT for Development.
The PrepCom for WCID2009 was intended to showcase and demonstrate ICT for Development through concept paper presented at the National Congress. The successful cases will be put forward as the country position paper in the World Congress for ICT for Development (WCID) 2009 to be held in China in September.
Among others, Habibullah N Karim, president of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (Basis), Dr. Hafiz Md Hasan Babu, professor of the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Dhaka University, Golap Monir, editor of The Monthly Computer Jagat, Luna Doha, chairman of Doha Tech, and Abir Hasan, chief news editor of Radio Amar, were present.
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