Digital Bangladesh is a suffix, a dream. Bangladesh is now moving forward through a great change and transition. On January 7, 2009, Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the second time with the aim of building Bangladesh as a digital Bangladesh in the 21st century. In the year 2021, the golden jubilee of independence, the main theme of their election manifesto was to make Bangladesh a middle-income country and to build an information-based 'Digital Bangladesh'.
★Digital Bangladesh Declaration:
December 12, 2008 Bangladesh Awami League announced in its election manifesto that 'Bangladesh will become a' Digital Bangladesh 'in 50 years of independence in 2021. A developed country, a prosperous digital society, a digital age population, a transformed production system, a new knowledge based economy. All in all, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has shown the dream of building a knowledge-based society. Digital Bangladesh is in fact the first step towards establishing a knowledge-based society. Digital Bangladesh will fulfill our dream of establishing prosperity and better life for our next generation through the great liberation war in 1971. The ‘Bangladesh Computer Society’ organized the first summit on the subject called ‘Digital Bangladesh Summit’ on 18 to 12 November 2009 to discuss the establishment and priorities of Digital Bangladesh.
★Definition of Digital Bangladesh:
Digital Bangladesh is the first step in establishing a science based society. Through this, a developed, science-minded prosperity refers to Bangladesh. 'Digital Bangladesh is a happy, prosperous, educated Bangladesh free from inequality, corruption, poverty and hunger, which is truly a people's state and whose main driving force is digital technology.' , Dreams and aspirations. This is the best way to meet the basic needs of all the people of Bangladesh. This is the right of Bangladesh to increase its per capita income or national income to transform from a least developed or poor country to a rich and rich country. This is the golden Bengal of the dream of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu in the 21st century.
★Pioneer of Digital Bangladesh:
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as the pioneer of Digital Bangladesh. Because, as a pioneer, he is working to build a digital Bangladesh to achieve goals.
★National Priority for the Establishment of Digital Bangladesh:
The first national commitment for the establishment of Digital Bangladesh is to eradicate poverty and inequality from the country by using digital tools and to meet the minimum basic needs including the establishment of basic rights of the people.
For this, infrastructural development at the national level should be a priority. To provide uninterrupted power supply throughout the country. Each cell needs to be connected to a digital network, either wirelessly or wirelessly. Equipping the people of all regions of the country with digital devices and formulating digital devices will be considered as a national priority. Apart from this, other issues that will be considered as priority are: people's own engagement, government's engagement with the people, digital transformation of government, digital transformation of education, creation of suitable human resources, transformation of agriculture, industry and business.
When Digital Bangladesh is established in 2021, there will be predominance of talent and knowledge instead of money and physical strength. From an agrarian society, Bangladesh will transform into a creative and merit-based industrialized country, leading the digital age of human civilization. And the government and the people have to work shoulder to shoulder to fulfill this dream.