The Ministry of Culture has signed an agreement with the ICT Division for the digitization of National Archives and National Libraries. The agreement was signed in the conference hall of the National Archives Building in Agargaon of the capital on Wednesday.
The MoU was signed by Director General of Archives and Libraries Directorate Farid Ahmad Bhuiyan and Bangladesh Computer Council Executive Director Ranjit Kumar.
Minister of State for Culture KM Khalid, Minister of State for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Secretary of the Ministry of Culture Md. Abul Mansoor were present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, a workshop was organized by the Directorate of Archives and Libraries on the implementation of the project on expansion and modernization of online services through digital transformation before the signing ceremony. In the workshop, a detailed action plan was discussed with the Directorate of Archives and Libraries under the Ministry of Culture and the Bangladesh Computer Council under the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Department.