Govt mulls law to develop IT sector
Friday, 25 December 2009
The government is going to introduce a new law to attract foreign investors in the country's dormant IT sector and achieve its envisioned goal of 'Digital Bangladesh' by 2021.
Science and Information Communication Secretary AKM Abdul Awal Majumdar made the announcement at a press conference in the city Thursday, reports UNB.
The title of the law will be Bangladesh High-tech Park Authority Act 2009, he said.
He told the conference that the incumbent government was going to set up the country's first high-tech park and an ICT University on 232 acres of land in Gazipur for expanding the present world's fastest-growing economic sector called information communication technology (ICT) through attracting foreign investors.
"The Bangladesh High-tech Park Authority Act 2009 has been sent to the Law Ministry to examine and it will be announced soon," he told newsmen.
Referring to the government's other initiatives, the top official said the government had already appointed a total of 80 scientists at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to give a boost to the country's IT sector.
He told the conference that they had taken up projects to set up five units of 'Community E-Centre' at different places in the country under a recipe to eliminate poverty and ensure the access-to-information rights of the rural people.
"The Community E-Centre will provide online services among the long-neglected rural people for improving their lifestyle," he said about the digitisation programme of the new government.
Replying to a query, Mr Majumdar pinpointed that over 5.0 million people are using Internet while 4.60 million using mobile phone Internet service. "We will provide Internet service in country's 30 per cent area within 2013."
He said the government is also planning to set up computer lab at all high schools in the country within 2013.
President of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Mustufa Jabbar and Executive Director of BCC (Additional Secretary) Mahfuzur Rahman were also present at the conference.
Science and Information Communication Secretary AKM Abdul Awal Majumdar made the announcement at a press conference in the city Thursday, reports UNB.
The title of the law will be Bangladesh High-tech Park Authority Act 2009, he said.
He told the conference that the incumbent government was going to set up the country's first high-tech park and an ICT University on 232 acres of land in Gazipur for expanding the present world's fastest-growing economic sector called information communication technology (ICT) through attracting foreign investors.
"The Bangladesh High-tech Park Authority Act 2009 has been sent to the Law Ministry to examine and it will be announced soon," he told newsmen.
Referring to the government's other initiatives, the top official said the government had already appointed a total of 80 scientists at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission to give a boost to the country's IT sector.
He told the conference that they had taken up projects to set up five units of 'Community E-Centre' at different places in the country under a recipe to eliminate poverty and ensure the access-to-information rights of the rural people.
"The Community E-Centre will provide online services among the long-neglected rural people for improving their lifestyle," he said about the digitisation programme of the new government.
Replying to a query, Mr Majumdar pinpointed that over 5.0 million people are using Internet while 4.60 million using mobile phone Internet service. "We will provide Internet service in country's 30 per cent area within 2013."
He said the government is also planning to set up computer lab at all high schools in the country within 2013.
President of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Mustufa Jabbar and Executive Director of BCC (Additional Secretary) Mahfuzur Rahman were also present at the conference.