The government has launched a total of 500 mobile apps in an attempt to facilitate public services to the people easily and cheaply using internet.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina's information and communication technology (ICT) affairs adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy inaugurated the mobile applications in a programme on Sunday.
The function was organised by the government’s ICT Division at Bangladesh Computer Council auditorium at Agargaon in Dhaka.
The government has taken an initiative to develop mobile apps capitalising the talent of young generation, Joy told the programme.
“The government could have developed the apps through foreign software developers. But, the government did not do that as it would neither develop the country nor the generation next,” Joy, also the son of premier Sheikh Hasina, added.
“We have trained around 3, 500 university students across the country to develop the apps. I believe the young generation will move one step ahead by taking advantage of the training,” Joy hoped.
According to the ICT Division, the launch of the 500 mobile apps would begin a new era of ICT for getting public services inexpensively and effortlessly.
Of the apps, a total of 300 are service-oriented applications, which will provide information and knowledge about services of different ministries and departments of the government. The rest have been built on the fresh ideas gathered from the competitive programmes.
The ICT Division of the posts, telecommunication and ICT ministry has developed these apps under a project supported by Ethics Advanced Technology Limited.
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Quelle/Source: Prothom Alo, 26.07.2015
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