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  • Bangladesh: Empower poor through IT access: CA

    Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday called for empowering poor, disadvantaged and rural population through providing them with access to the information superhighway for building a prosperous Bangladesh.

    He made the call while formally declaring open a two-day launching programme of Mission 2011, organised by Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN) at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.

  • Bangladesh: ICT 4D - Gateway to rural development

    Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is not only an integral component of modern civilisation but also a power that helps our dreams come true. Remarkable improvement in ICT has influenced a broad spectrum of human activities and inspired revolutionary changes in socio-economic arena.

    Many countries have embarked on a new era of economic development by widespread implementation of ICT in their societies. Unfortunately, Bangladesh still lags far behind in aligning itself with this technological revolution due to her antiquated approach to the technology.

  • Bangladesh: ICT experts must for digitisation

    The target of establishing a Digital Bangladesh will remain 'illusive' if the government machinery is not properly digitised as felt by experts who consider e-governance as an integral part of digitisation. According to a government report as appeared in the press, more than 88 per cent of public offices have no manpower to deal with ICT (information and communication technology) operations and 70 per cent of the employees in government offices do not use computers. The situation is the worst in departments, corporations and commissions as 95 per cent of such offices have no ICT professionals who are needed to make e-governance initiatives successful.

  • Bangladesh: Tap potentials of rural youths

    Rural people, especially the unemployed youth and women, should be considered assets in national development. The present government could decide as a policy priority to outsource functions such as digitisation of land records, data entry operations, collation of local data, and local resource mapping to the information kiosks run by self-help and community interest groups with the support of civil society organisations. Upazila and Union Parishad institutions could use connectivity to provide accountable and transparent local governance.

    Various government data of relevance to the public, including birth and death certificates, other registrations, and pension documentation, could also be made online to facilitate usage. Outsourcing from urban to rural Bangladesh would be a powerful method of bridging the rural-urban digital divide.

  • Barbados: Government aware of ICTs transforming power

    The Barbados Government has fully recognised the power that Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) hold in stimulating and facilitating cultural, economic and social development in Barbados.

    This was the general message which was sent by Dame Billie Miller, Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day Commonwealth Connects workshop on e-Business and e-Government for the Caribbean region, held at the Grand Barbados Beach Resort, yesterday.

  • Barbados: Government Striving For Efficiency Though ICT

    Government will continue over the next few years to improve its role as a model user of information communication technology (ICTs).

    This was underscored by Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Telecommunications, Investment and Energy, Senator Darcy Boyce. He was delivering the feature address at the opening of the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day workshop today. It was organised by the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the theme: "Better City, Better Life with ICTs - Leveraging ICTs for Business and National Development and was held at the Hilton Hotel.

  • Baubeginn für ostafrikanisches Unterseekabel

    Der Netzwerkausrüster Alcatel-Lucent hat Medienberichten zufolge die Bauarbeiten für ein neues Unterseekabel vor Ostafrika begonnen. Das 10.000 Kilometer lange Kabel soll rechtzeitig zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2010 den Südafrikanern eine schnellere und günstigere Internetnutzung ermöglichen. Die Kosten für das Projekt werden mit 247 Millionen Dollar (156 Euro Millionen Euro) angegeben.

  • Bayerischer Gemeindetag kritisiert mangelnde Internetversorgung in der Fläche

    Die Bürgermeister der kleineren bayerischen Gemeinden sehen in der unzureichenden Versorgung des ländlichen Raums mit schnellen Internetanschlüssen ein großes Problem für die Zukunftsfähigkeit der Kommunen. Zahlreiche Bürgermeister kritisierten am Mittwoch auf dem Bayerischen Gemeindetag in Barbing bei Regensburg, dass sich die Deutsche Telekom AG und andere Telekommunikationsunternehmen nicht um das DSL-Angebot in ländlichen Gebieten kümmerten.

  • Bayern fördert Erschließung des ländlichen Raums mit Datenautobahnen

    Landesweite Versorgung mit Breitband-Internet wird weiter forciert / Staatsregierung legt Förderprogramm für Gemeinden in ländlichen Gebieten und Gewerbegebiete auf

    Die Staatsregierung treibt die flächendeckende Breitbandversorgung weiter voran: Um die Kommunen bei der Schließung vorhandener Lücken im Angebot schneller Internetzugänge noch besser zu unterstützen, wird der Freistaat Bayern zukünftig den Ausbau breitbandiger Infrastruktur auch finanziell fördern. „Der schnelle Zugang zum Internet ist ein wichtiger Wirtschaftsfaktor und Standortvorteil. Als Flächenland hat Bayern ein besonderes Interesse daran, dass Unternehmen und Bürgern Breitband-Internet in allen Landesteilen zur Verfügung stehen. Wir werden daher die Erschließung des ländlichen Raums mit Datenautobahnen verstärkt fördern“, erklärt Bayerns Wirtschaftsministerin Emilia Müller.

  • Bayern will Breitbandversorgung im ländlichen Raum fördern

    10 Millionen Euro für Gemeinden in ländlichen Gebieten

    Bayern will die Breitbandversorgung im ländlichen Raum finanziell fördern, um Kommunen bei der Schließung vorhandener Lücken im Angebot schneller Internetzugänge besser unterstützen zu können. "Der schnelle Zugang zum Internet ist ein wichtiger Wirtschaftsfaktor und Standortvorteil", begründet Bayerns Wirtschaftsministerin Emilia Müller die Pläne.

  • BB: Lewis: ICT critical to productivity of states

    Like any other country, Barbados’ ability to strengthen its economy rests on our ability to become more productive.

    This is coming from Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), Bernadette Lewis who spoke at the Opening Ceremony of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) ICT Road Show recently at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre (LESC).

    She said that this message which was stated in a recent report of the World Economic Forum reveals that “the productivity of a country determines its ability to sustain a high level of income.

  • BD: Government mulls laptop loans for university students

    Varsity authority and ICT ministry to be guarantors

    The governmentis mulling over specialised loans for university students to buy laptops, with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and the concerned varsity authorities as the guarantors.

    “We are already planning the loan scheme and have talks with the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the central bank,” Nazrul Islam Khan, secretary to the ICT ministry told the Dhaka Tribune.

  • BD: ICT stakeholders demand withdrawal of VAT on internet

    Demands made and presented to the government, which are not considered during the national budget

    A common demand among all of information and communications technology (ICT) stakeholders and investors in telecommunication sectors, is for a reduction of the government’s VAT on internet and transmission services.

    Over the past fifteen years, Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS), Internet Service Providers’ Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB), Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and Bangladesh Association of Call Center and Outsourcing (BACCO) along with experts and educationalists, have expressed their demands on the issue but the policy makers have done nothing about it.

  • BD: Removing the tax constraint to ICT revolution

    Like the seed-fertiliser-water technology of the 1980s that revolutionised rice productivity and agriculture in Bangladesh, the ICT revolution touched off by the Digital Bangladesh initiative of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2009 holds the promise of lifting factor productivity and citizen welfare through the adoption of mobile technology. Bangladesh has already made good progress during the Sixth Plan. The potential benefits for the poor are particularly noteworthy. By transferring knowledge, by facilitating financial transactions, by eliminating needless intermediation in transactions, and by enhancing and speeding up access to a range of public and privately provided services, the ICT revolution is contributing to lower production and selling costs for the poor. This in turn is increasing their productivity and income, thereby contributing to poverty reduction and improvement in mass welfare.

  • BD: 4,000 fast track future IT leaders to get job

    Some 4,000 fast track future IT leaders (FTFLs) will get job in Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Service (ITES) companies soon as a government project has agreed to provide support to the companies for building up the FTFLs with training as per their skills demand, reports UNB.

    The project titled 'Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance project' (LICT) of Bangladesh Computer Company (BCC) under ICT Ministry will offer a package of incentives for the IT and ITES companies against recruitment of FTFLs and their training, officials said.

  • BD: 4,000 to get IT jobs after free training

    Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Service (ITES) companies will employ some 4,000 fast track future IT leaders as a government project will provide support to the companies to train them into IT leaders.

    The project “Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance” of Bangladesh Computer Company under ICT ministry will offer a package of incentives to the IT and ITES companies to recruit the fast track future IT leaders and train them, said officials.

  • BD: Country moving towards digitalisation despite poverty, population boom

    Despite persistent poverty, population explosion, lack of much needed economic reforms and frequent natural disasters, the country is moving ahead to become a digital Bangladesh, officials said on Wednesday.

    "To achieve economic improvement by removing all these constraints the government has taken the plan to digitalise the country by 2021," a senior official of the ministry of information and communication technology (MICT) told the FE.

  • BD: Country's internet infrastructure achieves a mark

    Internet infrastructure of the country has achieved a mark by ensuring its back-up through connectivity of international terrestrial cable (ITC) that would ensure uninterrupted flow of information.

    Industry insiders said it is a 'breakthrough' for the ICT (information communication technology) sector development which has been facing problems for long due to dependence on the lone submarine cable -- SEA-ME-WE-4.

  • BD: Entire country will be connected by January, Says ICT minister

    Information and Communications Technology Minister Mostafa Faruque Mohammad yesterday said the entire Bangladesh would come under high speed internet connectivity by January.

    The connection would come to Bangladesh from Pashchimbanga and Assam in India, he said, adding that the Indian project would also cover Nepal and Bhutan.

    The minister said this while talking to reporters during a visit to the development work of hi-tech park in Kaliakoir of Gazipur.

  • BD: Excel at ICT use: PM

    Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has urged new generations to excel in the use of information and communication technology to help build Bangladesh free of poverty and unemployment.

    "Our aim is to get our new generations used to tapping technology," Sheikh Hasina said, inaugurating a convention of ICT-related experts of Asia, 'E-Asia 2011' at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in Dhaka on Thursday.

    She added that if the young generation receives proper education on information technology, it will play a role in creating jobs at home and abroad.

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