Bangladesh to start e-Quran

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e-Quran soon
PM opens e-textbooks
Unb, Dhaka

The online version of Holly Quran (e-Quran) with Bangla translation will be introduced, disclosed the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.

She said this at the launching ceremony of 33 primary level and 73 secondary level textbooks (e-book) online at her office while urging the affluent people to spend a part of their money on providing computer, laptop, multimedia and other digital equipment for educational institutions in their respective villages. The free of cost textbooks are now be available on its website (http://www.ebook.gov.bd).

Sheikh Hasina said she has already asked the Islamic Foundation to take necessary steps to introduce online version of the Holly Quran both in Arabic and Bangla languages.

Gradually, other religious books may also be turned into electronic versions, she said.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesig...php?nid=183111

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1. The publication of the Quran online with free access is part of the current centre-left wing's government of "Digital Bangladesh 2021", to make a fully digitalized country by that date.

2. Digitalization is taking place and includes the setting up of e-centres in every upazila (second smallest administrative unit) everywhere, the digitalization of tax collection and other things.

I think this is partly based on the Singapore model (Singapore is also densely populated like Bangladesh) of making a technology-based society.

3. This is an important event in the history of the holy Quran and Bangladesh seems to be the first Muslim country to do this and 150 million Muslims will benefit.



Muslims in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi Muslims smashed the US-backed Pakistan army in 1971 gaining a free Muslim state.



Prime minister Hasina Wajid has announced this decision and has recently upgraded ties with Saudi Arabia.

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Bangladesh PM launches online textbooks

Bangladesh PM launches online textbooks - The Times of India

PTI | Apr 25, 2011, 07.48pm IST

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally launched e-book, a digitised compilation of primary and secondary textbooks.
DHAKA: Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally launched e-book, a digitised compilation of primary and secondary textbooks, opening a new horizon of easy access to textbooks through the Internet.

The National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and UNDP- funded Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister's Office jointly organised the inaugural ceremony.

From now on textbooks will be available on www.ebook.gov.bd for free. The e-book will eliminate all fear of hampered learning due to delay in getting textbooks.

The e-book is readable on digital devices like computer, e-book readers, mobile phones, PDAs, CDs and iPads.

It is expected to be very helpful especially for expatriate Bangladeshi students to take preparation for primary terminal, Junior Secondary Certificate and Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations from abroad.

The students could use the e-book easily as presently 40 per cent of the country's schools have computer facilities and the government has taken initiative to establish multimedia classroom at 20,500 secondary schools.

Students with weak eyesight can read the e-book easily by make the font bigger on the computer screen.

In future the 'text to speech' version of textbook will be introduced for visually challenged students.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, Primary and Mass Education Minister Dr Afsarul Amin, National Project Director of Access to Information Nazrul Islam Khan also spoke at the function held at the Prime Minister's Office.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/t...ow/8081660.cms

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The government wants to digitalize the country:

DHAKA, Oct 27: In line with the present government’s vision to build ‘Digital Bangladesh’ by 2021, union information service centres (UISCs) will be inaugurated in 4,498 unions across the country on November 11. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to open the UISCs form her office at 11 am through video conferencing,” State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak said....

With the expansion of the ICT facilities, he said, a huge number of people will get online and offline facilities such as different government forms and information about agriculture, health, education, legal aid, human rights and employment. Besides, services like composing, printing, photo, scanning, email, internet browsing and multimedia projectors will be provided to the rural people at a nominal price, he said. After assumption of power by the present government, 1,000 such UISCs were set up till August this year under the joint initiative of the Access to Information (A2I) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office and the National Institute of Local Government (NILG).

http://www.theindependentbd.com/busi...set-for-nov-11-

Every government ministry is to be online and accessible to the public, tax collection is to be digitalized so is land registration. The Awami League government's project is "Digital Bangladesh 2021".

















Only recently the Bashundara Group in Bangladesh has announced plans to produce IT goods for export.

Bashundhara Group, under an umbrella deal, will also assemble laptop computers, net-book computers, touchpad, and electronic reader targeting the export market after meeting domestic demands....Mohiuddin noted that it is encouraging for Bangladeshis that laptop computers and electronic devices of high demand would be produced in Bangladesh and hit the mainstream Western market.

http://www.daily-sun.com/?view=detai...e_id=1&index=1



Korean electronics giant Samsung has recently started up a R&D centre in Bangladesh, partly because it wanted a suitable Muslim country.

The company has already recruited over 100 Bangladeshi engineers for the centre to develop mobile devices for Asia, Africa and Australia. The centre now plans to hire 1,000 engineers by 2013, said NamKyu Lee, managing director of SBRC Ltd, later at another event at the Westin Dhaka...

"In Bangladesh, our target is to become the best R&D centre in the world," said Lee, adding that the centre would also focus on advanced technology and conduct other IT researches.

Opening of Samsung R & D centre.







Samsung volunteers in Bangladesh.



Bangladeshi lady uses a mobile phone.



Bangladesh to launch a satellite in 2013 to help its telecommunication system amongst other things, from China.