State Minister for Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Monday said the government is working to strengthen digital security aiming to maintain safeguards in protecting information and financial data.
"We are trying to maintain safeguard of our digital system along with enforcing strict law, maintaining coordination with Japan, USA and South Korea and keeping linkage with leading multinational companies", the state minister said.
The state minister said these things while replying to a supplementary query raised by independent candidate Syed Sayedul Haque Suman, MP of Habiganj-4, during the question-answer session held at the national parliament.
“In the context of the country's huge GDP size which is $450 billion along with stable financial growth, per capita reached $2,800 and huge transactions in digital platforms and that is why our digital safety is very much necessary,” Palak told the parliament.
As part of our digital security, Palak said the country needs to include digital literacy in the national curriculum as the curriculum would help to create awareness among the future generation from their childhood.
Citing the reserve scam of $81 million from the Central Bank in 2016, the state minister said stealing of this huge money has enabled the government to enact a new cyber security act and other security measures.
After materializing the digital system, the country has become heavily digitalized launching over 52,000 websites, 2,500 services converted to digitalized, around 150,000 paperless files are being managed in 13,000 offices through an electronic filing system and the country is ultimately proceeding to a cashless financial system.
