Dream of Digital Bangladesh
Digital Bangladesh is our dream, our weapon for changing the country, an expectation of people and a super vision of nation.
'Digital Bangladesh' means it will be an e-state; all of its activities like governance, commerce, education, agriculture etc will be powered by computer and the Internet. In short, it will be computer and Internet based Bangladesh. Today the entire world is gradually becoming a digital planet. Almost every state is heading towards a knowledge-based society and Bangladesh cannot stay away from it.
Both the ruling and opposition parties of Bangladesh emphasized ICT development as a core issue in their election manifestoes. The election manifesto of the Awami League pledged introduction of ICT in every sphere of our national life.
The main opposition party BNP also mentioned a number of times that they started the programme in their tenure and would complete it earlier than 2021.
A very first step for digital Bangladesh would be to spread the ICT education throughout the country. Every primary and secondary student should have access to the computer and computer based education. Mid level education and short level education or training should be readily available throughout the country and higher level education on computer science should be qualitative. Internet is not available for all computer user students at present in our country. So, Internet facilities should be made available in the remotest corner of the country at a cheaper rate.
However, the mass people expect that the government will take all possible steps to create a SMART (simple, measurable, accountable, responsive and transparent) Bangladesh and a knowledge based society within 50 years of its independence by 2021, which will be called “Digital Bangladesh”.
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