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The government is working sincerely to introduce e-governance in public sectors to speed up development works, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

“We want to use the information communication technology to speed up development works,” she said at the inauguration of the first reunion of National Defence College at Mirpur Cantonment in the capital.

The prime minister said the government has been working to build a “digital” and prosperous Bangladesh by 2021.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: Prime Minister pledges e-governance to speed up development

Bangladesh will seek resource flow equivalent to 0.2 per cent of the GDP of the developed world into the poor countries at the LDC (least developed country) meeting in Turkey next year, said finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith Wednesday.

"We will start preparing the working paper for UN LDC IV conference and take advice from all quarters," he said at a three-day international dialogue on Exploring a New Global Partnership for the LDCs in the context of the UN LDC IV.

The programme was organised by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and the OECD Development Centre, Paris. It was chaired by professor Rehman Sobhan.

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The previous Awami League government in 1999 acquired 230 acres of land at Kaliakair near Dhaka to set up an information technology (IT) park. It was to give this sector a big leap forward in all respects. The park was said to be built with uninterrupted power supply and continuous high speed Internet connectivity round the clock -- among other indispensables for such an establishment. Although a decade has passed since the acquisition of land, actual activities to get the park going in every sense of the term has been very little.

The government itself could give a boost to this sector by taking strong initiatives to spread e-governance. The ministries and different organizations could be adequately brought under computer networks to preserve information and discharge different services to people. In the process, the use of locally made software and support services could increase, giving a stimulus to about 400 companies that have sprung up in the private sector.

Weiterlesen: Realizing the vision of digital Bangladesh

Digital topographic map, which is now under preparation, can save at least Tk 3.74 billion (374 crore) in a year, according to a recent study of Survey of Bangladesh (SoB), the national surveying and mapping agency, reports BSS.

The study said the digital topography maps can be used in field of communication, agriculture, infrastructure development, enforcement of law and order, disaster warning, defence, engineering and establishing e-governance for expediting work as well as reducing activation cost in a large scale.

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