Dhaka, Mar 2 (UNB-2010)-International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Secretary-General
Dr Hamadoun I. Toure sought cooperation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as an ambassador for maintaining global cyber security and peace, as cyber-war emerges as a latest security concern for the world community.
Addressing the opening ceremony of concept paper titled ‘Digital Bangladesh: Plan of Connecting People’ at a city hotel, the ITU Secretary-General praised Sheikh Hasina as “Woman of Peace”.
“We all on the earth will have to work unitedly and in a coordinated manner to ensure peaceful use of the cyberspace. And, in this regard, I will call upon Sheikh Hasina to be an ambassador for maintaining peace in the cyber-world. Because she has such visionary and wise leadership,” he told the function.
Dr Hamadoun said Bangladesh is one of the largest markets for telecommunications in the present world.
“I believe through the path of Vision 2021 and with visionary leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh will be turned into a modern technology-based country.”
Information technology can bring prosperity for a nation and, at the same time, criminals can use also the cyberspace for their anti-peace activities.
Prime Minister’s son, computer scientist Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, presented the theme paper on the dreamland called digital Bangladesh.
While presenting his paper, Joy said ultimate goal of the plan of digital Bangladesh is turning it into an outsourcing hub of the globe.
Joy said modern telecommunications system will be the backbone of the dreamt digital Bangladesh while digital technologies are the main driving force to build a poverty-and hunger-free Bangladesh.
He said domestic IT industries would have to be created and flourished to give a good base to the planned digital Bangladesh.
“IT industry should be considered as thrust sector to expedite the national process to build the digital Bangladesh. The country must have its own expertise to maintain the system,” he said.
Technology-based digital Bangladesh will facilitate people with all government-sponsored services electronically, which will help the nation eliminate corruption from all sectors at all levels.
“When the total system will be computerized with modern telecommunications facilities, all official documents will be kept in the database. If any official does any corruption, it will remain recorded in the system,” he said.
To get such a modern country, each citizen, including the school students, will have to have access to information technology and fast telecom devices, he told the function.
Joy, who lives in America and just made his debut in politics, also stressed the need for setting up IT Park in the country as soon as possible for rapid flourishing of the IT sector.
He also emphasized best use of +fibre-optic-cable facilities of the country, saying that most such cables still remain unused.
Joy mentioned two probable projects of the present government -Videoconferencing Facilities up to Field Level Administration and Installation of Modern Digital Systems--to ensure good governance at all levels of government administration.
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