Speaking on the occasion, Minister of State Zunaid Ahmed Palak said, “We are on a mission to make the Bangladeshi telecom industry a driving force in achieving the government's vision of Smart Bangladesh. Telecommunications, as an essential service, has the potential to serve as a bridge connecting access to digital services with customers. This potential […]
The IDI mainly highlighted universal and meaningful connectivity (UMC). Achieving universal connectivity means that people, homes, communities and businesses are connected. Universal connectivity for people means that anyone can connect regardless of their urban or rural location, gender, education level, etc. Universal connectivity for homes, communities and businesses means the places where people live, work, […]
Rabbithole is Bangladesh's leading sports OTT and live-streaming platform. With around 85 million subscribers on its paid platform, Rabbithole is providing live streaming of various events including the World Cup, Asia Cup, T20 World Cup and the English Premier League. Rabbithole had earlier won the title of Champion Team of National ICT Awards 2023 and […]
As per the decision taken during the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Public Procurement in September 2022, Digicon will receive 80 per cent revenue from the service of automatically filling forms, 86 per cent from verifying photos and 90 per cent through the Parichay app. . Percentage of revenue for biometrics verification. Morally, BTRC […]
Letters have been issued repeatedly to telecom service providers to develop a database with personal information of their customers from a service called ‘Parichaya’. The database will include the customer’s name, national ID card number, their parents’ names, date of birth, address, gender, occupation and a photograph. However, mobile operators are not interested in developing […]
Earlier, the ICT department had spent Tk 1800 million to create 600 apps from 2013 to 2015. According to the 2020 Prothom Alo report, 500 of them are missing and 100 are in poor condition. If those apps are not useful, why were they introduced at all? There are very few examples of government development […]
Asked whether different types of information were being leaked from different offices, the Election Commission official said, “I cannot say at this point. Let’s see what comes out in the investigation. Services of suspicious organizations have been stopped. Explaining about the verification services, KM Humayun Kabir said that not all institutions receive all types of […]
TechCrunch, a US-based online media outlet, has reported on the leak of personal information of “thousands of people” from the Office of the Registrar General, BDRIS. The Office of the Registrar General, BDRIS utilized the NID data verification services provided by the EC. After the incident, the EC said that the leak was the result […]
Many people have taken to social media to complain about the outage. When asked about the issue, Grameenphone Head of Communications Khairul Bashar said, “At 11:45 am on Thursday we noticed some issues with the Grameenphone network. Fiber optic cables were cut at three places in Tangail and Sirajganj, causing problems. Of the 180 million […]
Senior prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon and prosecutor Tapos Kanti Baul presented the case for the prosecution, while advocate Gazi MH Tamim, as the state-appointed defense counsel, defended the fugitives. The first tribunal framed six charges of crimes against humanity on December 5, 2018, and began recording statements of witnesses on February 18, 2019. The court […]
Analyzing the privacy policy of Bijoy Keyboard found on the Play Store, Mohd Irshadul Karim, senior lecturer at the Department of Law, University of Malaya, told Prothom Allo that when it comes to using any cellphone app, the privacy policy , which describes the rights of the user and the rights of the service provider. […]
State Minister for Science as great as ICT Yeafes Osman Wednesday familiar which a supervision has set up report centers in 4, 500 unions with a perspective to bringing ubiquitous people underneath scholarship as great as technology. The apportion done a remarks whilst vocalization during a shutting as great as esteem placement rite of 33rd […]
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) upon Wednesday deserted a bail apply to of Professor Ghulam Azam, former ameer of a Jamaat-e-Islami, as good as systematic which a indicted be sent to prison upon charges of impasse in crimes opposite amiability during a 1971 Liberation War. He was taken to Dhaka Central Jail during around 12.30 […]
Digital chronicle of 3 hundreds some-more books will be uploaded to a government’s a single of a many sparkling websites- www.ebook.gov.bd – by January 15 to give a students giveaway entrance to all textbooks by online. “After rising a e-book site final year, you have digitized 106 books, which will be some-more than 400 by Jan […]
The 5th edition eAsia 2011 conference and exhibition is scheduled to take place in Dhaka on December 1-3, 2011. eAsia 2011 is the annual international Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development event with the objective of reinforcing technology and knowledge-centric growth and needs of Asia vis-à-vis Bangladesh, through capitalisation of market economy and boosting […]