Bringing Discipline in Legacy of ICT

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The government has in past allowed meddling of the affairs of the ICT by all Tom, Dick and Harry. The time has come to empower the Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology and Bangladesh Computer Council is the focal point of all responsibly in the sector along with the industry and academia. The first step will be to automate the activities and digitized the documents on to the web. The ministry has signed numerous treaties. Let hose treaties be utilized for R&D and technology transfers. In past ICT in government meant too many masters? None of the masters were serious in the development of the roots of ICT in the society or the industry. The only vision available to them was overseas tours on the pretext of study tours, seminars, and workshops. The Economic Management Technical Assistance Program contains very dangerous propositions, which can have serious impact on the national integrity, as such these report should be trashed. The past project director and his cronies responsible for misuse of fund should be brought to justice for his shady deals and loss to the government. The winds of change have started blowing and its time that we open our minds and properly and empower of the ministry and the BCC for delivering the building blocks of the vision Digital Bangladesh by the year 2021. The government should realize that it’s time to bring appropriate professionals into the Bangladesh Computer Council rather than maintaining it as a dump yard for punishment postings. The government’s vision of Digital Bangladesh should be implemented in a way that brings efficiency, standards method and modality of operations of the Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology. There is a Chinese proverb that says When the wind changes direction, there are those who build windmills.

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