Play key role in executing Digital Bangladesh
March 19, 2009
The French ambassador in Dhaka on Tuesday asked the local IT businessmen to play a leading role in execution of the Digital Bangladesh project. “I am delighted to see that you are, not only businessmen, considering information technology as a profitable technology, but you also value computing skills as a means of development,” Charley Causeret told the certificate giving ceremony of a two-day ICT workshop for the teachers of SOLiNFO, a French non-governmental organisation.Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) organised the workshop. The French envoy said: “ In addition to your activities in BCS, may I remind you that you were the key actor of the promotion of IT system at national level with Digital Bangladesh project, aiming to implement a countrywide IT network by 2010.”
He said such a network would surely accelerate economic development and heighten Bangladesh’s position in the world market. Digital Bangladesh also intends to equip all universities and high schools with computers, he added.
Causeret thanked the BCS for taking such a socially responsible initiative together with SOLiNFO, which has already trained more than 1,000 children to IT in only four years.
BCS President Mustafa Jabbar chaired the function, also addressed by MM Niazuddin, a joint secretary to the Ministry of Science, Information and Communication Technology and Zahirul Islam, the BCS secretary general.
Source: The Daily Star
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