Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday categorically said Bangladesh would march forward adopting all modern technologies as they come along in the future.
“The modern technologies that will emerge in the coming future, Bangladesh will step forward keeping up the tempo with those technologies,” she said.
The prime minister said this while addressing a programme centring World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2015 and observing the 150th anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Post and Telecommunications Division and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulator Commission jointly organised the programme at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
The prime minister said the government that started its journey in 2009 with the dream to establish digital Bangladesh has transformed it into a reality as people could now receive various public services digitally at their doorsteps.
She said her government had been developing the infrastructure of the ICT sector in the country to bring the fruits of the sector to the common people.
She said steps had been taken to connect Bangladesh with a second submarine cable to increase the capacity of the internet to 1,300GBps while capacity of existing submarine cable had been increased up to 200GBps to meet the growing demand on internet across the country.
“We hope that the work of the second submarine cable will be completed within December 2016,” she said.
The prime minister also mentioned that the government introduced national web portal – “the largest web portal in the world” with 25,000 websites of various public organisations.
She narrated that e-commerce, e-transaction, e-banking and other activities on trade and commerce as well as e-signature and communication through video conferencing have been started in various organisations, enabling work to completed faster and more effectively.
Talking about the country’s own satellite, the prime minister said the government was going to launch Bangabandhu Satellite into orbit in 2017, and were currently moving ahead to this end to make the initiative a success.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also released a commemorative postage stamp and a first day cover marking the WTISD 2015 and 150th anniversary of the creation of International Telecommunication Union .