The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has already received 20 ideas about women development issues, including healthcare tips, poultry farming for women and safety issues, from the Department of Women Affairs at a function last week.
“We are impressed getting new ideas from the 50 women employees of the Women Affairs Directorate who generated 20 ideas about livelihood and safety of women,” ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan told the news agency yesterday.
He said the ICT ministry will launch, jointly with different directorates and departments of the government, a series of workshops to collect the ideas on various public services, including education, health, banking and financial services, from the officials for developing mobile apps.
Khan said after getting ideas from different government offices, the mobile apps will be developed involving the local apps developers and with the support of World Bank funded “Leveraging ICT: Growth and Employment” and “Learning and Earning” project under the ministry of ICT.
As a part of its move, Bangladesh Computer Council will organise similar workshops with the Department of Social Services by this week to collect ideas from the officials on developing mobile apps, the ICT secretary said.
He said, “The number of smartphone users are increasing in the country and we want to develop mobile apps to provide public services at the hands of the people who are using these smartphones.”
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Quelle/Source: The Daily Star Online, 13.07.2013
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