City Desk :
Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Mustafa Jabbar said the digital technology has been playing a vital role in creating women entrepreneurs. “Digital technology has changed the lifestyle of the people in the country…The technology is also playing an incredible role in creating women entrepreneurs,” he said.
The minister said this as the chief guest at an inauguration session of a three-day regional training on strengthening supply chain through the use of digital commerce and digital marketing platforms organised recently by the Ministry of Commerce, UN ESCAP and Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) for women entrepreneurs at the BIISS auditorium in the city, reports BSS.”After announcing Digital Bangladesh programme in 2008, some people did not understand its depth and made fun. But gradually they realized that digital facilities means online shopping, getting sacrificial animals and government services while staying at home,” he added.
“The updated technology made the life easy and keeping the lifestyle go on during the Covid-19 pandemic situation,” he said, adding that digital Bangladesh is now not only an exemplary example for the world but also a tool to build a developed Bangladesh without poverty and discrimination by establishing a knowledge-based digital equal society by 2041.
Director General (DG) of WTO Cell of the Ministry of Commerce M Hafizur Rahman, Acting Director General of BIISS Colonel M A Sadi, Deputy Director of ISCAP South and Southwest Asia Dr Rajen S Ratna, UNRC representative Subarna, South Asia Women’s Development Forum Bangladesh Chapter President Nasreen Fatema Awal and Women in e-Commerce Bangladesh President Nasima Akhtar also spoke, among others.
