Finance Minister AMA Muhith has claimed that 50% of the country’s digitisation has been completed while the rest would be done soon.
The minister said digitisation is an effective tool to stop corruption.
The finance minister was addressing the concluding ceremony of Bangladesh ICT Expo 2016, a three-day exposition on information technology that kicked off on Thursday in the capital.
With reference to Sylhet Madan Mohan college, Muhith said earlier, there were anomalies in the college admission which were thwarted by introducing digital system.
Now everyone is interested in digitisation which is very much positive to build a digital Bangladesh.
In his address, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said: “We will have to focus on hardware, software and service sectors if we really want to build a digital Bangladesh.”
The manufacturing costs of digital devices in South Korea, Japan and China are very high. Bangladesh can be a suitable place for technology-based companies as the country is building a Hi-Tech Park at kaliakoir.
“We offered a total of 12 incentives for the park which are attractive in comparison with other countries.”
Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS), the apex trade body of technology industry, along with the ICT Division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunication and ICT hosted the event at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC).
Imran Ahmed, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Posts, Telecommunications, ICT Ministry, Shyam Sunder Sikder, secretary to the ICT Division, and AHM Mahfuzul Arif, president of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS), also spoke on the occasion.
Some other government organisations and trade bodies also took part in the second edition of Bangladesh ICT Expo.
The exposition showcased technology-based innovations that aimed at unlocking economic potentials of the IT sector.
