State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Tuesday said the proposed Digital Security law will be the elaborate version of the previously enacted Cyber Security law.
“With increased digital services, the crimes are not occurred only through online services, rather through digital devices. Therefore, we are planning an elaborate act to tackle all sorts of digital crimes”, the state minister told reporters at ICT division conference room in Agargaon.
ICT division organized a ‘meet the press’ to mark the second anniversary of the Awami League-led government installed on January 12, 2014 for the second consecutive term.
Palak explained the ICT roadmap of the government for 2016.
The government has started working on the Digital Security Act in April last year as ICT specialist Mostafa Jabbar came up with the idea while the officials were devising a cyber-security law, he said.
Relevant stakeholders of the ICT industry are involved with the formation of the act.
“We want to formulate a comprehensive act to combat the imminent cyber-security threat”
Palak said that the government will enact another act titled ‘National e-service Act 2016′ to be placed in cabinet shortly.
He also informed that the government was planning an Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy.
“We have worked with the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to design the academy. Through this academy, we will train our software engineers. We hope to start the academy by the end of 2016″.
The government targeted 1000 innovations and $5 billion export by 2021, added the junior minister.
Palak said that the government also plans to develop an inception of ecosystem for gaming industry. “We are focusing on mobile application development.”
“Our apps are doing very well. One particular game ‘Heroes of 71′ was downloaded for more than 300,000 times. So our gaming industry is moving forward and we plan to provide more funding for the gaming industry”.
The State Minister informed that some 500 BPO centre and freelancing centers in upazilla level will be established to increase the participation of workforce in ICT development.
He said that within the next few years the ICT division will establish seven incubators and training centers, digital bus for remote areas, digital forensic labs, software quality assurance labs and 3,000 computer cum language labs.
Palak also said that the ICT division plans some social services and including infolady, e-service at doorstep, national helpline: unique know all services and e-shop: reducing the middleman services.
Highlighting some of the success of the government’s ICT initiative, the State Minister said that the Bangladesh has already been acknowledged by global rating agencies for achievements in the ICT sector.
In global service location index 2016, Bangladesh moves up to four spots from 26th to 22nd.
ICT division has shown remarkable success in governance, he said.
“In the last fiscal 2014-15, we have a 102 per cent implementation of Annual Development Plan (ADP). It is also the only government division which has 100 per cent execution of the cabinet decisions”, he said.
Palak said over 18,500 government offices are brought under a dedicated broadband network. About 800 video conferencing systems were installed to ensure e-governance.
The capacity of National Data Center has been upgraded up to 3,000 Tera bytes (TB), he added.
One of the successes of the government in last year was the launching of internet.org.
“Now at 30 sites, one million users per month are using free Internet through internet.org”.
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Quelle/Source: Newsnext Bangladesh, 12.06.2016
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