Business Desk :
A three-day ‘Digital Bangladesh Mela’ was kicked off on Thursday aiming to demonstrate benefits of 5G technology and information technology as well and advancement of the Digital Bangladesh campaign.
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy inaugurated the fair in capital’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) with the theme “Highways of Technology in Bangabandhu’s Sonar Bangla”.
Both government and private entities in the digital technology sector are taking part in the event, organized by Posts and Telecommunications Division. Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar chaired the function, also addressed by ministry’s parliamentary standing committee chairman AKM Rahmatullah, secretary of the ministry Nur-ur-Rahman and China-based Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Ltd CEO Zhang Zhengjun.
One of the main goals of the Digital Bangladesh Mela is to highlight the advancement and innovation of digital technology, ensure suitable human resources, build a bridge between mass people and advanced digital technology as well as showcase progress of “Digital Bangladesh” campaign.
Addressing the function, the posts and telecommunications minister said following the successes of Bangladesh in rolling out the Digital Bangladesh campaign, India announced such campaign in 2014 followed by the Maldives in 2015 and Pakistan in December 2019.
