The digitisation process has created an irreversible social renaissance for progress making civic life
dependant on online digital services and facilities easing civic life everywhere in recent years.
Launching of the union information service centres (UISCs) has turned digitisation into a part and
parcel of common life and, especially, the younger generations and students have become mostly
dependant on the digitised internet facilities.
Experts, academics, officials, educationists, farmers, IT specialists, younger generations and students
said everybody is getting tremendous helps from the digitised facilities available everywhere.
Students Khaleque, 19, Laila, 18, and Kohinoor, 19, said they are preparing to fill in their admission
forms using online digital facilities for taking part in admission tests in the universities and seats of
higher education.
“Like in the previous years, we can download all information regarding admission through using
internet to apply for the admission tests without moving from our own areas,” said students
Mahmuda, 18, Aslam, 18, Aklima, 19, and Samir Ghosh, 19.
System Analyst and Programmer of RangSoft ICT Services Mahbubul Huda said the digital facilities
have made the admission process and access to all other services for the commoners easier and
hassle-free everywhere.
The youths have become mostly dependant on digital facilities as the process of digitisation has
become an irreversible process making life easier in all spheres,” Assistant Professor Dr Tuhin
Wadud of Begum Rokeya University said.
Senior journalists Rafik Sarker and Shahidul Islam said people are getting immense benefits from
UISCs and other service providers on e-agriculture, e-health, e-education, e- purjee, human rights,
employment, marketing produce and other services.
Head of Programme Coordination of RDRS Bangladesh Monjushree Saha said digitisation has
created a social renaissance in the process of building a medium income Bangladesh as envisioned
by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Like in other places, a digital wave has gripped the northern region where students, youths, farmers,
men, women, professionals, teachers, socio-cultural and NGO activists are easily getting e-services
from the UISCs and other e-centres.
“By virtue of digitisation, the country is rapidly achieving indexes of the Millennium Development
Goals, reducing poverty, producing skilled human resources, preventing eve teasing, drug abuse,
dowry, child marriage and other social curses,” she added.
Students Parul Rani, 22 and Radhika Rani, 22, said they took training on computer, internet and
other digitised facilities at Moidandighee UISC under Boda upazila in Panchagarh two years ago.
“Now, we have set up our own computer centre side by side continuing studies,” they said adding
that providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital facilities to all has
become a must for building a medium income nation.
Students Saleha Khatun, 21, Koilash, 23, and Shujan Barman, 22, told BSS they got computer training
at Moidandighee UISC under the instructions of computer trainers Ariful Islam, 27, and Sabiha
Sabrin, 25, for better future.
“We can not think life now even for a moment without computer knowledge as the digitised ICT
facilities have become a part of the social life,” they said.
Farmers Ahmed Hossain and Ashish Kumar said they are easily getting information on crop farming,
cropping patterns, latest technologies, seeds, fertilizers, fertilizer dealers, pesticides, e-purjee etc
from the UISCs at their own areas.
Lauding the huge success achieved from digitisation, Executive Director of Northbengal Institute
of Development Studies Dr Syed Samsuzzaman said people are also earning through outsourcing
utilising digitised ICT facilities to add to the remittance. –BSS, Rangpur
