The government officials and all concerned should work sincerely to make the digitisation program successful for national advancement to make civic life easier for building a developed Bangladesh.
The views were expressed at a seminar titled “Mujib Year 2020: Our Role in Building Digital Bangladesh” held recently at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner, Rangpur.
The district administration with assistance of the ICT Division organised the event before the year-long celebrations of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman next year. The district level heads of government departments, organizations and educational institutions, academics, entrepreneurs of union digital centres (UDCs), freelancers, civil society members, students and journalists participated in the seminar.
Deputy Commissioner Md. Asib Ahsan attended the seminar as the chief guest with Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Education and ICT) Shukria Pervin in the chair.
ADC (General) Syed Enamul Kabir, Office Secretary of district Awami League Tauhidur Rahman Tutul, Additional Civil Surgeon Dr, Kaniz Sabiha, former Professor of Rangpur Carmichael College Mohammad Shah Alam addressed as special guests.
Shukria Pervin delivered a PowerPoint presentation discussing benefits to be enjoyed by common people from implementation of the plans taken by the present government during the Mujib Year next year. She also narrated roles of government officials, UDC entrepreneurs, freelancers, youths, students, students and every citizen in building Digital Bangladesh during the Mujib Year next year.
Later, the participants forwarded various suggestions in the open discussion session for successful implementation of the plans taken by the government during the Mujib Year to build a digital Bangladesh. The chief guest said digitisation has become an effective tool accelerating development, making civic life easier and pushing Bangladesh toward a middle income nation on way to achieve the SDGs by 2030 and build a developed Bangladesh by 2041. The epoch-making digitisation program of the government has given the nation a concrete direction to move forward in the process of building a developed ‘Sonar Bangla’ as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,” he said.
