Digital content for grassroots people is the way forward
With the progressing growth of internet connectivity across the country, the former president of the Bangladesh Computer Samity has expressed some insight about the current status of digitalization. Smartphones, tablets and computers increasingly becoming the means of connecting online for even the people in the grassroots nowadays. However, he has referred to the mismatch of content with infrastructure, pointing out that the government is not stressing on content, first.
With enough capacity infrastructurally to harness and process information, it would still remain unproductive if there is no content to process. The government has developed 500 apps for citizens, but it is a question of how many of them are really useful. It is the scene were just because of productive prowess, app developers are creating tons of apps. This top-to-bottom approach is not the right norm for consumer specialization. The process should be reversed to serve the demands of the grassroots people of Bangladesh. Focusing on obstacles such as the limited "sms-based" or "help desk" solutions, language barrier, complex technical references and speed of internet, a professor of Information Technology of DU expressed that we still have a long way to go.
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