Foreign experts at a session titled 'Internet Governance and Telecom Regulation' urged the Bangladesh government, civil society and the business community to work together to provide Internet facilities to every person of the country.
ICT can play a significant role in achieving the UN-set Millennium Development Goals. The proper growth of Internet also ensures good governance, they said.
A total of three sessions took place yesterday, on the second day of the international workshop on 'Building an Information Society: Road2Tunis' that kicked off in the city's Bhasani Novo Theatre on Sunday.
Twenty local and international experts are taking part in the workshop to be ended today adopting 'Dhaka Declaration' that eye at the Second Phase of the World Summit on Information Society scheduled to be held at Tunis in November.
In a concurrent session on 'Financing for ICT Infrastructure and Solidarity Fund' speakers opined that the governments should ensure friendly environment for ICT infrastructure development where the private sector can tap the potential and substantially contribute to the development.
They said people oriented e-governance is important for ensuring good governance and a good government cannot deny its necessity.
Taking part in the open discussion of the session, Science and ICT minister Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan stressed on more investment from the private sector to develop ICT infrastructure and said though the price of high-tech ICT products is fallaing every day, it is still beyond the purchase capacity of poor people, of Bangladesh.
In the first plenary session titled "Gender and ICT", chaired by Pro Vice Chancellor of the Millennium University Advocate Rokhsana Khondker, the discussants said ICT makes the world flat, as it gives same information and data to people of any part around the globe. So, ICT is the sector where every one can take part and work equally irrespective of gender, they observed.
They, however, said women are lagging behind in the ICT despite huge demand of women professionals from the employers. Emphasising on the need for creating more women IT professionals, they said women are more sincere and deligent in their work and this is why women are more preferred as IT professionals.
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