City Desk :
Bureaucrats, IT experts, bankers and academia laid emphasis on providing policy support to use the frontier technologies like blockchain in different domains including governance, banking and finance, agriculture and health.
The suggestion came on Wednesday at a workshop on “National Blockchain Strategy: Pathway to be a Blockchain-enabled Nation” organized by Leveraging ICT for Employment and Growth of the IT-ITES Industry (LICT) project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of ICT Division at the IDEA breakout zone of ICT tower.”The government will make a strategy first and then policy for using blockchain in different domains,” said ICT Senior Secretary N M Zeaul Alam at the workshop.
Referring to Prime Minister’s ICT Affair Adviser’s instruction to develop policy on frontier technologies N M Zeaul Alam said the government has been making a strategy on the blockchain taking opinion of the experts to make it an effective document.
“I think the blockchain strategy would be worthy and time-befitting for using the technology in future in different domains,” the ICT secretary said. Chaired by LICT Project Director Md Rezaul Karim, the function was addressed, among others, by Additional Secretary Rashadul Islam, IT-ITES Policy Adviser of LICT Project Sami Ahmed, Head of BRAC IT Services Sabbir Mahmud, Head of Operations of eGeneration Emran Abdullah, Professor Dr Shariar of ULAB, Managing Director of TCL K. Atique-e-Rabbani, Deb Dulal Roy. Assistant Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Shahjalal Science and Technology University (SUST) Md Sadek Ferdous presented a keynote paper while Sami Ahmed moderated the workshop. The experts, however, suggested that strategy should be focused on developing existing IT resources on blockchain technology, creating a national expert pool to use the blockchain technology in the said domains and awareness among the users.
Rashadul Islam said the government has taken initiative to make blockchain strategy as policy intervention is a must for introducing new technology. The IT experts, bureaucrats, bankers and academia put forward their recommendations for short, mid and long-term including developing existing IT resources, prioritizing and analyzing used-cases for each application domain, integration of government services, updating Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA), blockchain-friendly legal and policy frameworks for incorporating in the proposed new strategy on blockchain.
Bureaucrats, IT experts, bankers and academia laid emphasis on providing policy support to use the frontier technologies like blockchain in different domains including governance, banking and finance, agriculture and health.
The suggestion came on Wednesday at a workshop on “National Blockchain Strategy: Pathway to be a Blockchain-enabled Nation” organized by Leveraging ICT for Employment and Growth of the IT-ITES Industry (LICT) project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of ICT Division at the IDEA breakout zone of ICT tower.”The government will make a strategy first and then policy for using blockchain in different domains,” said ICT Senior Secretary N M Zeaul Alam at the workshop.
Referring to Prime Minister’s ICT Affair Adviser’s instruction to develop policy on frontier technologies N M Zeaul Alam said the government has been making a strategy on the blockchain taking opinion of the experts to make it an effective document.
“I think the blockchain strategy would be worthy and time-befitting for using the technology in future in different domains,” the ICT secretary said. Chaired by LICT Project Director Md Rezaul Karim, the function was addressed, among others, by Additional Secretary Rashadul Islam, IT-ITES Policy Adviser of LICT Project Sami Ahmed, Head of BRAC IT Services Sabbir Mahmud, Head of Operations of eGeneration Emran Abdullah, Professor Dr Shariar of ULAB, Managing Director of TCL K. Atique-e-Rabbani, Deb Dulal Roy. Assistant Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Shahjalal Science and Technology University (SUST) Md Sadek Ferdous presented a keynote paper while Sami Ahmed moderated the workshop. The experts, however, suggested that strategy should be focused on developing existing IT resources on blockchain technology, creating a national expert pool to use the blockchain technology in the said domains and awareness among the users.
Rashadul Islam said the government has taken initiative to make blockchain strategy as policy intervention is a must for introducing new technology. The IT experts, bureaucrats, bankers and academia put forward their recommendations for short, mid and long-term including developing existing IT resources, prioritizing and analyzing used-cases for each application domain, integration of government services, updating Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA), blockchain-friendly legal and policy frameworks for incorporating in the proposed new strategy on blockchain.
