Bangladesh is leapfrogging towards a digital Sonar Bangla innovation era under Vision 2021

DHAKA, June 6 (NsNewsWire) — “Bangladesh is leapfrogging under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s vision 2021 towards a 5G digital sonar Bangla by 2021” said Mr. Mustafa Jabbar at the “innovate for a Digital Asia-Pacific conference being held in Bangkok by the Royal Thai government, Huawei Company and the Bloomberg media group on 6-7 June 2018. Telecom and Digital Economy Ministers from select Asia Pacific countries are participating in the two-day innovation for digital conference that showcases innovation for industry 4.0 in the region.

Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Dr Somkid Jatusrioutak inaugurates the conference. Earlier this morning Jabbar held sideline meeting with Thailand’s Science and Technology Minister Mr. Suvit Maesincee and exchanged views on early signature of the MoU for cooperating in the ICT and innovation cooperation currently being negotiated between Bangladesh and Thailand. Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Ma Saida Muna Tasneem was present during the meeting and the Conference.
In his statement at the Ministerial Roundtable Minister Jabbar underlined that Bangladesh in 2008 under its farsighted and progressive Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was perhaps the first country in Asia to announce a government driven “Digital Bangladesh” manifesto and political vision. During the past decade of Digital Bangladesh her government has fast transformed into an IT and innovation, driven digitally connected nation up to the union and village levels where mobile technology is delivering services at the fingertips of the citizens “. The Minister added. Pres Release