Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country had made good progress in its efforts towards building ‘Digital Bangladesh’ during the last three years as pledged in the ruling party’s election manifesto.
“We’ve achieved many successes to this end,” she said, while inaugurating through videoconferencing from her office the multimedia classrooms and digital academic contents developed by
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ICT fair kicks off, with focus on tech in daily life
The fourth BCS ICT World 2011, an exhibition of information and communication technology, kicked off in Dhaka yesterday with a slogan for technology in education and daily life.
The exposition that pulled in 50 local and foreign companies showcases ICT innovations at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
The five-day expo organised by Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) was inaugurated by Finance Minister AMA Muhith. BCS
150 software firms await 3G boon
Dhaka: About 150 software firms have been waiting for more than a year for the launch of the 3G technology. The government launch of the 3G technology will not only prove to be good news for telecom operators, a number of firms that develop software for 3G-enabled mobile phones for foreign buyers, at cheaper prices, could also offer a better rate for millions of local users, software industry
Digital innovations on show
Schoolteachers even in the remote areas of the country now develop classroom contents for their students with the help of textbooks, websites and YouTube videos. Not only that, they also share the contents by signing up into blogs, said Md Mofakkharul Islam, a system analyst of the education ministry.
He was giving a description of a ‘multimedia classroom,’ an ambitious programme undertaken by the
Digital innovation fair begins tomorrow
The Digital Innovation Fair-2011 begins in the city on July 6 as part of government efforts to build a digital Bangladesh by 2021, reports BSS.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the three-day digital fair as the chief guest at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre at
Bill Gates keen to work with Bangladesh
Microsoft chairman and co-chair of Bill and Milinda Gates Foundation William H (Bill) Gates has expressed keen interest to work together with Bangladesh to help it attain the millennium development goals.
Bill Gates expressed the interest when he paid a courtesy call on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at her hotel suite in the Swiss city on Monday evening, said the prime minister’s press secretary
IT education in a mess
No specialist teachers in govt schools, colleges
Computer studies at secondary and higher secondary levels are being conducted without specialised teachers in the state-run educational institutions.
The government has not yet created any permanent posts for teachers of the discipline at its 570 schools and colleges 15 years into introduction of the
SIM tax weighs down telecom growth: analysts
The tax on new mobile connections is the main constraint to achieving the government’s vision of a ‘Digital Bangladesh’, said the head of the parliamentary standing committee on telecom ministry yesterday.
“The Tk 800 tax on SIM cards is inhumane, and it should be removed,” said Hasanul Haq Inu, addressing a seminar, Telecom for the Common Man and the ICT Industry, at
Software fair creates buzz
The country’s largest software and ICT-enabled services exposition — BASIS SoftExpo — started yesterday in Dhaka to bridge the gap between service providers and users.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith inaugurated the five-day event at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC). About 110 local companies and 10 firms from Denmark and