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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all concerned including the technologists, researchers, relevant organizations and individuals to come forward from their respective fields for building a ‘digital Bangladesh’.

“You have a great role to play for building a digital Bangladesh and your opinion and work plan would be evaluated properly in this regard,” she said while inaugurating a four-day BCS Digital Expo-2010 at Sheraton Hotel here this morning.

Read more: Prime Minister urges all to come forward in building a "Digital Bangladesh"

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There has been an explosion of information, offering opportunities for acquiring knowledge and doing research in all disciplines. People have access to libraries, books and journals through internet. Distance education and virtual teachers are made possible widely by using ICT. In Bangladesh, education and research can get a strong boost by exploiting all these opportunities, but the basic barrier is education and lack of knowledge in English language, which is essential for internet.

Read more: Bangladesh: e-governance can enhance efficiency, productivity and transparency

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Poor and remote people of the villages have got one multipurpose center for every six thousand population. This multipurpose center is community clinic. It is the most prioritized tool through which the present government wants to bring health, nutrition and family welfare services at the doorstep of the village people. This will improve the overall health situation of the country by ensuring comprehensive primary health care service for three-fourth of the total population of Bangladesh living in the rural area. Gradually it will bring some other very important services to the rural community people.

Read more: Bangladesh: Health service net working through community clinics

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AT a time when the world is advancing fast by dint of technology, Bangladesh cannot stay behind and, therefore, the government has laid thrust on easy and quick delivery of public services.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina deserves appreciation for declaring her government's vision for building a Digital Bangladesh by 2021. Nevertheless, the hurdles to achieving the goal are formidable.

Read more: Bangladesh: E-tendering

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Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken massive measures to digitize its connectivity with rural areas through making digital maps up to union level as well as developing online rural data base.

Geographical Information Service (GIS) of LGED has already prepared digital maps for all the unions of the country which will be available on their website soon.

Read more: Bangladesh: Local Government Engineering Department prepares union level online digital mapping

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