Bangladesh Internet Week 2015 will be observed across the country on 5-11 September adopting an ambitious goal of creating new 10m Internet users annually.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, mobile phone operator Grameenphone and the ICT Division will jointly organise the event, officials told a press conference at Westin Hotel in Dhaka yesterday.
As part of the event, the organisers will hold seperate expositions at the capital’s Banani ground, Rajshahi Nankin Bazaar and Sylhet City Indoor Stadium.
The Banani expo will be a three-day event from September 5 while the Nankin Bazaar expo on September 8 and the Sylhet event on 11 September. Programmes will also be taken in every upazila across the country.
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, BASIS President Shameem Ahsan, Grameenphone’s Chief Marketing Officer Yasir Azman were present during announcement of the programmes. The country’s foremost e-commerce companies, mobile apps development companies, web portals, device manufacturers as well as all Internet products and services companies will take part in the Week events.
“Internet bandwidth is becoming more and more affordable for everyone here in our journey towards building a digital nation. The Internet Week is a part of efforts being made to reach the digital Bangladesh goal,” said Zunaid Ahmed Palak. He said observing the Internet Week at every corner of the country was “unprecedented and such a big event on Internet had not taken place anywhere else in the world.
Palak added the event to be organised under a public-private initiative would play a vital role in the development and improvement of the country’s ICT sector. He said the government has a plan to fix maximum and minimum prices of Internet benefiting the end-users.
