BSS, Rajshahi :
The three-day “Digital Innovation Fair 2015” ended on Collegiate School playground in the city Friday evening with a call to make people aware about e-services to engage them in the digital activities.
In collaboration with ICT ministry and Access to Information (A2I) project of Prime Minister’s Office, District Administration organised the fair.
Latest ICT products, multi-media classroom, mobile banking and e-learning items were put on display in around 40 stalls.
Commissioner of Rajshahi Division Helaluddin Ahmed addressed the closing session as the chief guest with Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury in the chair.
Principal of Rajshahi Teachers Training College Prof Dilroj Ara and Principal of Rajshahi Government City College Prof Ruhul Amin also spoke.
During his welcome speech, SM Tuhinur Alam, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education, Development and ICT), narrated the goals and objectives of the government’s A2I Programme, digital innovation fair and tremendous successes already achieved through digitisation in every sector throughout the country including Rajshahi district. The chief guest said the fair is a step towards providing extensive citizen services to the citizen. Through this fair, citizens from district levels availed the scope of getting aware of the e-services at their doorsteps.
Besides, they get experience some important and regular services in-venue to understand the mechanics and advantages of these electronically transformed services.
Such services have reduced time of transaction and made the process fairly simple and transparent with most efficiency towards public satisfaction.
As a whole, the digitisation process had already created scope of employment and income generation in various ways including outsourcing, selling products through e-shop and offering different services at the Union Information Service Centres (UISCs), he added.
