They also urged the government to take steps to produce cheap smartphones for farmers so they can reap the benefit of advanced technologies.
They spoke at a roundtable on the application of ICT in the agriculture sector, at the office of the Prothom Alo, a Bangla daily, in the capital.
He said the draft regulations titled “e-Service Regulations 2013” which is now under process to launch anytime, has been prepared as per article 88 of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Act 2006.
Officials said 1,000 ideas, 700 individual and 300 group, would be collected from ministries, directorates and departments and the apps would be developed under a Tk 8 crore Mobile Apps Development Project the ICT ministry launched in October.
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The government has planned to establish one lakh Wi-Fi hotspots in different rural areas to provide people internet connectivity free of cost with an aim to diminish the information and communication gap between city and rural areas.
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the Ministry of Information Communication Technology (ICT), Ethics Advance Technology Limited (EATL) and Multimedia Content and Communication(MCC) to promote mobile application aiming at earning huge foreign currency.
The MoU was signed at a function in the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), reports BSS. ICT Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan, Managing Director of EATL Mubin Khan and Managing Director of MCC SM Ashraf Abir signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organisations.