Digital Bangladesh
There are many meanings attached to this phrase by various people trying to further there own motives and ideas. As a disinterested person, I feel that this phrase has only one core meaning and that is to provide cheap, reliable and the fastest available (according to international standards) wireless broadband service throughout the land along with the assurance of 24 hours non-failing supply of electricity. If these two simple steps are guaranteed, many businesses and well-to-do people will relocate from the crowded city areas and move to the countryside enriching the land as a whole. The government can also then carry out de-centralisation of most of its work.
The details of various software programme development and what activities of the companies or government need to be computerised are of secondary importance and have very little to do with this concept of 'digital Bangladesh' except to confuse and muddle the issue.
So, I urge the authorities to concentrate on these two concrete goals to achieve the dream of 'digital Bangladesh', as is often repeated by politicians and media.
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