A training workshop for the journalists working in print and electronic media on
reporting related to Digital Bangladesh held on Friday at Barisal Circuit House.
Press Institute of Bangladesh organised the district headquarter level workshop with
financial (partial) and technical help from the Access to Information Project (A2I) of
Prime Ministers’ Office.
Md. Shah Alamgir, Director General PIB as chief guest, Md. Shahidul Alam, deputy
commissioner Barisal and Shyamaprasad Bepari, joint secretary, Ministry of Information
and Communication Technology attended as special guests in the inaugural session of
the workshop presided over by Advocate Manabendra Batobayal, president Barisal Press
Forty-nine journalists working in print and electronic media in the district participated in
the workshop.
Director General of PIB said journalists should play pro-active and responsible role to
implement the Digital Bangladesh programmes.
He said media can play a vital role to carry out the programmes chartered out in the
Digital Bangladesh vision through their writings.
Communication Associate of A2I Programme Hasan Benaul Islam gave a detailed
description on the objectives, implementation strategy and status of the process in the
working session of the workshop.
Dr. Pradip Kumar Panday, Associate Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism
Department of Rajshahi University, spoke on the occasion as resource person.
Speakers at the training workshop said the on-going digitisation process is creating
opportunity of self-employment across the country and speeding up services with more
transparency and accountability.
They focused on that how the process had already created scope of employment and
income generation in various ways including outsourcing, selling products through eshop and offering different services at the Union Information Service Centres (UISCs).
They also said that the digitisation process would also help develop a knowledge-based
society and good governance.
Mohammad Abdul Mannan, trainer PIB, called journalists to write reports, features and
articles regularly so people can know more about the services and the benefit of the
vision for digital Bangladesh.
The participant journalists agreed that digital Bangladesh would help generate huge
employment opportunity across the country and abroad.
They opined that the digitisation process would also equip people to explore the
enormous scope of outsourcing with creating a knowledge-based society and could play
vital role in preventing harassment and corruption. –Our Correspondent, Barisal
