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Digitisation to cut graft

Muhith says at award giving ceremony of Digital Innovation Fair

Star Business Report
Digitisation is the fear factor for corrupt and unskilled government officials. When the process of digitisation will ensure free flow of information, corruption will go away and that would be possible by the blessings of information technology, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday.
Muhith was speaking at an award giving ceremony of Digital Innovation Fair 2011 in Dhaka where most innovative public and private initiatives in information and communication technology got recognition.
Muhith and former vice chancellor of BRAC University Jamilur Reza Chowdhury handed over the awards to the recipients.
The science and ICT ministry and Access to Information (A2I) project of the Prime Minister’s Office organised the fair. The award was managed by a nongovernment organisation, Development Research Network (D.Net).
The minister said the innovation fair was organised in a big scale this year and enthusiasm was also high.
He said digitisation is a matter of the young people and they will lead the process.
The nomination, shortlisting and selection of the winners were done in a transparent way, fulfilling all the criteria, said chairperson of the jury board Jamilur
Reza Chowdhury.
He said participation was high this year, especially from the public sector.
Computer and mobile technology can take public services to the grassroots and help implement the government's vision for 'digital Bangladesh', Chowdhury said.
However, he said the digitisation process should speed up.
Nazrul Islam Khan, national project director of A2I, and Toufic Ahmad Choudhury, chairperson of DNet, also spoke.
A total of 11 projects were selected for championship awards in 34 categories from both the public and private sectors.
Of them, three government departments — Bangladesh Post Office, Agriculture Information Service, and Communication (Central Management System of Roads and Highways Department) — received the championship awards.
The private sector projects bagged eight championship awards in 20 categories.
Individuals and private and social enterprises were entitled to the awards.
The winners of championship awards were Gonit Pathshala, Rabbit's Fury, Halda River: A natural fish spawning heritage, AppRain Content Management Framework, Activity for Reformation of Basic Needs - ARBAN, somewhere in net ltd, CEGIS and Transformer Protection from Unauthorised Person.