95 future solutions identified for Smart Bangladesh

Smart Bangladesh of 2041 will be based on Digital Bangladesh. That is why the Information and Communication Technology Division of the government dreams of winning in 2041 by presenting smart society, smart citizen, smart economy and smart government. For this reason, the state minister of the department Zunaid Ahmed Palak has given 4 strategic instructions. The State Minister made this recommendation at the concluding session of the workshop on Vision 2041: Smart ICT Division Planning held at a resort in Srimangal in Moulovi Bazar district on Friday. In the directives, he said, among the innovations under the project, the first thing to look at is the benefit to the people. The second condition is return of investment. The third factor is rationality and the fourth factor is self-reliance. Taking these aspects into consideration, Bangladesh will become a smart Bangladesh only through the formation of cashless and paperless Bangladesh. In this case, he instructed everything with 7 questions. Emphasizing, how to build a cost-effective, intelligent, inclusive, knowledge-based and sustainable government system, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said, Bangladesh of 2041 will be a self-reliant developed and smart Bangladesh. The world will look to the smart Bangladesh of the future for new innovations and technologies. Expressing his conviction to win this challenge, Palak said that Bangladesh will tell the world how the year 2041 will be like, without looking at the East or the West. Then the world will look to Bangladesh to know what will happen in the world in the next 10 years. For this, like Bell Lab, Ilab Bangladesh, SHIFT, Startup Bangladesh or Innovation Academy can be given advance hints. Among others, a2i Policy Advisor Anir Chowdhury, BACCO President Waheed Sharif, Startup Bangladesh Managing Director Sami Ahmed, Hi-tech Park Authority Managing Director Bikarna Kumar Ghosh, BCC Acting Director General Ranjit Sarkar, Digital Security Agency Director General Khurshid Alam spoke in the meeting presided over by ICT Department Senior Secretary NM Zeaul Alam. A delegation of 73 members comprising top officials from each organization in the ICT department. In the workshop for 5 consecutive days, a master roadmap for the implementation of the goals of 2025, 2031 and 2041 was created through shared vision, smart integration and standardization to implement the concept of Smart Bangladesh. A strategy paper for the implementation of this program will be finalized through conversion to XY metrics. At the closing session, Farhad Zahid Sheikh, Chief E-Governance Strategist of a2i said that 13 linking statements were made based on four pillars in the workshop. Besides, 114 initiatives of 32 missions of 9 organizations have been planned. However, as this draft is streamlined, 22 projects will run on the 2041 timeline. Of these, 15 units will be operational by 2023. There will be 8 initiatives and 2 EDCs. Thus in 2025, 35 projects, 9 units, 4 companies, 2 EDCs and 30 enterprises; 9 units, 3 companies, 2 EDCs and 4 enterprises in 2031 and 14 units, 3 companies and 3 enterprises in one project in 2041. For this, 95 future solution requirements are presented. While speaking on the infrastructure of the work plan, Devnet chairman AK Sabbir Mahbub said that according to the functionality of the organizations, we want to make the system models atomically.