Experts at a seminar Saturday said internet for all means not only enabling access through networks and devices but also offering content that is relevant and useful to mass market consumers.
Getting Bangladesh's budding entrepreneurs and vast rural population online, will be a shot in the arm for the economy, they said and stressed on the need for trouble-free and easy internet connection for all with new, innovative and useful contents to empower people.
The government has started the process of setting up hi-tech parks in some divisional cities to promote the country's information and communication technology (ICT) sector.
At the first stage, hi-tech parks will be set up in Mohakhali, Kaliakoir in Gazipur, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Jessore, according to the Bangladesh High Tech Park Authority (BHTPA).
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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.
“We are going to introduce e-service regulations to ensure quality and standard electronic services in a disciplined way to the people against the backdrop of delivering of over 250 e-services in the public sector,” announced ICT Secretary, Md Nazrul Islam Khan.
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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.