BSS, Dhaka :
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak Wednesday asked field level officials to oversee the functioning of ICT programmes to boost the efforts of government to build knowledge-driven economy.
“We are implementing a number of programmes to shift our labour-dependent economy into knowledge economy to build a technologically advanced prosperous Bangladesh,” he told a workshop on “The role of local administration in the implementation of e-governance” in the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council here.
Secretary of ICT Division Shyam Sundar Sikder and Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Hosne Ara Begum, among others, addressed the workshop with Director General of Directorate of Information and Communication Technology Zasim Uddin Ahmed in the chair.
Director (Planning and Development) of Directorate of ICT Iqbal Mahmud presented the keynote paper at the workshop.
Palak said In line with its plan to build Digital Bangladesh as chartered out in the ‘Vision-2021’, the government put thrust on the use of ICT for improving productivity, governance, service delivery and on the development of IT industry.
Referring to different steps on ICT, he said the establishment of 4,547 Union Digital Centres (UDCs), 321 Pourasabha Digital Centres and 401 Ward Digital Centres under city corporations has transformed some important public services into online services.
Application of ICT has been proved an effective tool to curb corruption from society, Palak urged the field level officials to intensify their monitoring to gear up the progress of ICT based programmes to combat corruption as well as to accelerate development process of the country.
State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak Wednesday asked field level officials to oversee the functioning of ICT programmes to boost the efforts of government to build knowledge-driven economy.
“We are implementing a number of programmes to shift our labour-dependent economy into knowledge economy to build a technologically advanced prosperous Bangladesh,” he told a workshop on “The role of local administration in the implementation of e-governance” in the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council here.
Secretary of ICT Division Shyam Sundar Sikder and Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Hosne Ara Begum, among others, addressed the workshop with Director General of Directorate of Information and Communication Technology Zasim Uddin Ahmed in the chair.
Director (Planning and Development) of Directorate of ICT Iqbal Mahmud presented the keynote paper at the workshop.
Palak said In line with its plan to build Digital Bangladesh as chartered out in the ‘Vision-2021’, the government put thrust on the use of ICT for improving productivity, governance, service delivery and on the development of IT industry.
Referring to different steps on ICT, he said the establishment of 4,547 Union Digital Centres (UDCs), 321 Pourasabha Digital Centres and 401 Ward Digital Centres under city corporations has transformed some important public services into online services.
Application of ICT has been proved an effective tool to curb corruption from society, Palak urged the field level officials to intensify their monitoring to gear up the progress of ICT based programmes to combat corruption as well as to accelerate development process of the country.
