Dear readers, The beginning of a year always inspires hope; hope of starting afresh and shaking off the old burdens. 2019 promises to open new, even unfathomable opportunities for the fintech sector at home and abroad, because it is a field driven by innovation. We feature a plethora of topics spanning from
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Workshop on Digital Bangladesh for all Divisional and Deputy Commissioners held
On Friday July 27, 2018, a workshop on 'Digital Bangladesh' was organized for all the Divisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka. The workshop was jointly hosted by the Cabinet Division, the Ministry of Public Administration, Information and Communication Technology Division and the Access to Information
What budgetary measures we have for “Digital Bangladesh” this year?
National budget in each year opens the book for the aspiring IT entrepreneurs and make them to calculate what they are going to get and lose. While these calculations become tricky sometimes because of some budgetary measures which at best can be termed as ‘vague’ and ‘counter-intuitive,’ it forces the
MY ENDLESS SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF “DIGITAL BANGLADESH”
‘WE ARE TRYING TO CREATE A VC ECOSYSTEM WHERE INVESTORS WILL EAGERLY FUND STARTUPS’
Anyone attending tech startup related events for the past couple of years would instantly recognise Tina Jabeen. She has been ubiquitous in such programs, often seen animatedly talking to her audience on stage, or responding to queries by people after she gets off the stage. Approachable and friendly, the atypical
DIGITAL WORLD 2017: SHOWCASING THE FUTURE BANGLADESH
From The Editor December 2017
Dear readers, Winter is coming, and so is 4G. People yearning for a little bit more of the soothing weather will watch out how high the temperature rises, and people keeping up with the news of 4G will be watching how high the bids rise. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission is expected
Read MoreSDGs would be achieved by means of Digital Bangladesh’s initiative: Palak
For attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), there is no option but to jump onto the bandwagon of digital revolution. Stressing on the need for having a digital revolution for developing countries like Bangladesh, Junaid Ahmed Palak, the State Minister for ICT of Bangladesh said that on the eve of September 20
DEVELOPING LOCAL RESOURCES IS THE KEY IN CYBER SECURITY
Among many seminars held at the Softexpo in February the issue of security was clearly among the most highlighted. This has good reasons too. With the IT systems worldwide gasping to keep up with the technological advances and by extension advances in hacking mechanisms, the threat of cyber security breach
WIFI for reaching SDG 5
-Anonno Razzak Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT) and Bangladesh Institute of ICT Development (BIID) will jointly work to implement the flagship initiative ‘Women and ICT Frontier Initiative’ (WIFI) of UNESCAP APCICT (The United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Center for Information and Communication Technology for Development) to achieve the SDG 5
