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Stakeholders of the ICT industry breathed a sigh of relief, as government high-ups yesterday reiterated their commitment to do whatever needed for the development of the sector.

Two ministers and one state minister promised before the sector people to develop the industry by any means and execute their election pledge of creating a 'Digital Bangladesh'. The guests, attending the inauguration of the BASIS Softexpo-2009, lauded the announcement.

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A two-day National Telecentre Conference began at the Rural Development Academy in Bogra yesterday with a view to reducing the gap between urban and rural communities.

Speaking on the occasion, Secretary to science and ICT ministry S M Wahid-uz-Zaman said the government has taken up a number of initiatives to integrate information communication technology (ICT) into the national economic development strategy.

He said his ministry has already developed an ICT roadmap and e-government strategy and revamped its ICT policy.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: 'Telecentres to reduce urban-rural gap'

The Bangladesh government will introduce "Telehealth Care Services" across the country from next month aiming at providing health care facility to all the people, a senior official said Wednesday.

Director General of Health Services under Bangladesh's Health Ministry Md Abul Faiz said that all public hospitals at the country's 481 sub-districts will be provided required logistics including mobile phones for establishing a unit of telehealth care center.

"Through telehealth system, we'll be able to provide medical care closer to home for all," he said.

Weiterlesen: Bangladesh to introduce countrywide "telehealth care services"

The ICT roadmap in Bangladesh has been a much talked-about issue in recent times. Although the country has been using these technologies since the 1960s, broader use started in 1986 with the formation of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC). Afterwards, the 1997 recommendations on ICT development and the 2002 ICT policy were formulated. More recently, the government formed an e-government cell at the chief advisor's office, and completed an e-government horizon scan report last December.

Although a national policy on ICT was adopted in 2002, the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology had not been able to achieve the goals set out for e-governance in the policy. This led the present government to appoint Spinnovation and DNet (together with an international partner, Gov3 Limited) to develop a short, medium and long-term national ICT action plan or roadmap for Bangladesh on the basis of the National ICT Policy 2002.

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