Digitisation opens ways to improve livelihood
Say experts
Communication experts have said the digitisation of public services, replacing the yesteryear systems, have opened up new opportunities to improve the livelihood of people.
It also has reduced many traditional obstacles, especially those of labour, time and distance, making it possible to use the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for people's benefit, they said at a workshop in Sunamganj.
Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) organised the workshop to sensitise the journalists on Digital Bangladesh.
National Project Director of Support to Digital Bangladesh (A2I) Md Nazrul Islam Khan said nearly 50 million rural people visited the Union Information Service Centres (UISC) each month to get information and public service.
The rural people, who earlier used to go to the district administration office for collection of land related documents including parcha spending money and labour, are now getting those from UISC.
N I Khan, who is also the private secretary-1 to Prime Minister, said it would not be difficult to attain higher levels of development and double digit growth if digitisation of all public services is completed.
Chaired by PIB Director General Dulal Chandra Biswas, the function was also addressed by Sunamganj Deputy Commissioner Md Yamin Chowdhury and BSS City Editor Ajit Kumar Sarkar.
Forty journalists from different national and local print and electronic media in Sylhet Division attended the function.
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