The government is all set to hold the Digital Centre Entrepreneur Conference 2014 with the entrepreneurs of the Union Digital Centres set up across the country to provide information and technological assistance to people, particularly the rural ones.
Marking fourth year into the foundation of these digital centres, the event will be held at the National Parade Ground tomorrow with participation of more than 11,000 entrepreneurs from union, upazila and city corporation levels.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the event along with her ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed Joy in presence of ministers, state ministers, ambassadors and diplomats from different countries and representatives of the partner institutions of the digital centres.
Yesterday in a press conference organised by the government’s a2i (Access to Information) programme, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said: “We have come more than half the way towards building digital Bangladesh with the significant roles played by the Union Digital Centres.”
On November 11, 2010, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated a Union Information Centre through a video conference at a char named KukriMukri in Bhola with former President of New Zealand and United Nations Development Programme’s Administrator Helen Clark.
After launching 4,547 information centres across the country, the government established digital centres in 321 upazilas and digital centres in 407 wards under 11 city corporations, said the press conference.
All these digital centres have so far earned around Tk140 crore by providing 400 kinds of services to people.
Palak said after launching the digital centres, the dominance of the bureaucratic red tape had reduced significantly. Now service were available at the door steps of people.
