Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yesterday said Bangladesh has come to a stage of becoming a middle-income country.
“By the hard labour of the present Awami League government, Bangladesh has reached to a stage of becoming a middle-income country. We are taking up projects with whatever limited funding we have in our hands. Keeping pace with the government, the country is also moving forward and it is the youths, who will do the job,” Joy said.
He came up with the observations while addressing a function organized by the ICT Division on the occasion of inaugurating 500 mobile apps at Bangladesh Computer Council auditorium at city’s Agargaon.
Presided over by ICT secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder, the function was also addressed by State Minister for Post, Telecommunications & Information Technology Ministry, Zunaid Ahmed Palak, Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) chairman Sunil Kanti Bose, and managing director of Ethics Advance Technology Limited (EATL) MA Mubin Khan.
Joy further said, to pave the way for high-speed internet connectivity, fiber optic cable network will reach all the 4,500 odd unions by the end of this tenure of the present government.
“We have many plans to take the country forward. We have many dreams. We will establish IT Vocational Training Institute in each of the seven divisions in the country. Now we have six submarine cables as backup and that is why the internet users do not even realize when the network is getting cut off,” he added.
Palak in his speech said it is because of Joy, that the present government is being able to take time befitting decisions in the ICT sector.
“We achieved an independent and sovereign Bangladesh in 1971 under the leadership of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. We got democracy under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and became enlisted as lower middle-income country. God willing, under the leadership of Sajeeb Wazed Joy, we will become deserving claimants for developed Bangladesh,” he said.
Of the apps, 300 are service-oriented apps, which will provide information and knowledge about services of different ministries and departments of the government. The rest have been built on the fresh ideas gathered from the competitive programmes. ICT Division developed these apps under the project titled “Mobil Apps Traner in National Level and Development of Creative APPS”. EATL has provided assistance as partner organization in implementing the project.
