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4-day digital fair begins

Admin — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:52:10 +0000

A four-day Digital Innovation Fair began on Wednesday in Sylhet city to make popular the internet services in the society.
Prime minister’s private secretary Nazrul Islam Khan, also project director of Support to Digital Bangladesh, inaugurated the fair as chief guest at the Mohammad Ali Gymnasium of the Sylhet Stadium compound in the city on Wednesday morning.
The Sylhet divisional commissioner, NM Ziaul Alam, attended the inaugural ceremony as special guest while the deputy commissioner, Khan Mohammed Bilal, chaired the programme.
A total of 36 institutions that include Sylhet District Police, Sylhet Dak Bibhag, Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited, Bangladesh Computer Council, Income Tax Department, Roads and Highways Department, Health Department and different private banks have set up stalls in the fair, organised by the district administration.
The fair will remain open for all from 10:00am to 8:00pm till June 2.

-With New Age input

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Digital innovations on show

Admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:02:29 +0000

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 education ministry.
So far the ministry has provided training to 405 teachers, while the target is to train 20,500, both in schools and madrasas (religious educational institutions) across the country.
However, there are criticisms against the initiative as content development in the urban areas would be far better than that in the countryside.
A demo of the multimedia classroom was given at the Digital Innovation Fair 2011 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novo Theatre, co-organised by the science and ICT ministry and Access to Information (A2I) project of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened the three-day show yesterday.
Not only the multimedia classroom, the recently launched e-book — an online textbook for school students — by the education ministry also came to the limelight at the exposition.
People who got their secondary and higher secondary certificates after 1995 can log onto www.educationboard.gov.bd to see their results in the HSC and SSC exams along with other details.
The ‘electronic student information system’ was one of the many digitalisation initiatives of the government that was exhibited at the show.
A total of 86 public and private organisations, including all ministries and departments, are showcasing their services and initiatives at the fair.
Anir Chowdhury, policy adviser of the A2I project, said the event mainly aims to showcase the services of the government, adding that public entities have little scope to show off.
Once the postal department of the government was about to go into oblivion, but it was revived with digitally equipped developments, such as electronic money transfer service (EMTS), as shown in the fair.
In no time, one can send money anywhere within the country through 1,750 post offices with the help of EMTS, which was previously known as Money Order.
The government also displayed its post office debit card service yesterday. The Prime Minister became a client of the service.
Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited, which also participated in the fair, launched mobile banking in May this year, enabling customers to send money through mobile phone. The government’s postal department will also launch the service soon.
Already 7,000 clients of the bank have been registered for the service in six districts including Dhaka.
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) got a huge response when it launched online tax return submission, said Md Mahfuzul Alam, project manager of Technovista, the technical support entity of the NBR.
Electronic voting machine is another example of digitisation, which is gradually eliminating the use of paper from electoral activities, said an official of the Election Commission.

-With The Daily Star input

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Digital innovation fair begins tomorrow

Admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:07:11 +0000

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 10.30am.
The Ministry of Science and ICT, UNDP supported Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office and Divisional Commission’s Office, Dhaka are jointly organising the second digital fair.
“The fair is designed to reach IT-based services to the doorsteps of the people,” State Minister for Science and ICT Architect Yeafesh Osman told a press conference in the conference room of Press Information Department (PID) at Bangladesh Secretariat on Monday.
National Project Director of the A2I Programme Md Nazrul Islam Khan and senior officials concerned, among others, addressed the press conference.
Yeafesh said the fair will make a bond of relationship between government and non-government organisations, adding the remarkable programmes taken by the government to build digital Bangladesh will be highlighted through the digital fair to the people.
More than a hundred government and non-government organisations will participate in the fair to present their services to the people.
The fair will remain open from 10 am to 8 pm every day. No entry fee will be required.
Three seminars will be held in the fair, where ICT experts will present keynote papers.
On second day of the fair, 31 organisations will be given ‘Digital Innovation Award’ for their outstanding contribution in innovating e-content.
The first digital innovation fair was held in Dhaka city from March 4 to 6 last year with the participation of 102 stalls — 82 of different ministries and departments and 20 stalls of five non-government organisations

-With BSS/The News Today input

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