Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
said her government would set up hi-tech parks in all 64 districts of
the country with the headquarters in the capital in order to make digital
services available on the doorstep of people.
The government will launch a
satellite into the space to facilitate the digital services, she told “Digital
Centres' Entrepreneurs Conference-2014” at the National Parade Ground.
Around 11,000 young entrepreneurs of
4,547 Union Parishad digital centres, 321 municipality centres, and 407
ward-level centres in 11 city corporations joined the conference, organised by
the Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister's Office.
The prime minister termed the
entrepreneurs “digital boys and girls”, who are contributing enormously to
building a "Digital Bangladesh".
She said that with the launch of
"Bangabandhu Satellite", the internet would be faster. The process is
underway to seek bids to this end, she said.
Hasina warned all elected
representatives of her party against attempts to oust these entrepreneurs from
any digital centre, saying she had information that many were trying to bring
in their relatives to the centres.
She assured the entrepreneurs that
none would be able to oust them, and termed them the golden and devoted sons of
the country. Referring to her government's contribution to IT sector, she said
her administration had introduced the world's largest web portal by involving
25,000 government offices in it, on which people would readily get all kinds of
government information.
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam
said the government aimed to turn the digital centres into knowledge-based
institutions through involving the entrepreneurs in different LGED projects.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, IT affairs adviser to the premier, said they were halfway in
their journey to building a "Digital Bangladesh" by 2021.
Published in the Daily Star on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 
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