ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said that the ‘UNDP-Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Global Cyber Security Awareness Award’ will be introduced in the next year with a view to making the cyber world safe.
He said this at a press conference in the USA on the eve of the Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert in New York, said a press release on Thursday.
The ICT Division is going to arrange the ‘Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert’ at Madison Square in New York on Friday under the management of the Hi-Tech Park Authority of Bangladesh.
The concert is being arranged on the occasion of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence to commemorate the unique initiative (Concert for Bangladesh) of Ravi Shankar and George Harrison during the 1971 Liberation War.
The state minister said now the locally produced mobile phones meet 90 per cent of domestic demand and the remaining 10 per cent are exported.
He said Walton is producing laptops in Bangladesh. Now ‘Made in Bangladesh’ is a popular name all over the world, he added.
Some 4,000 tickets for the Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert have already been sold. The earnings from the concert will be provided to the UNDP fund for cyber security.
Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Authority Managing Director Bikarna Kumar Ghosh presided over the function which was moderated by the Consul General of the Bangladesh Consulate General in New York Dr Mohammad Monirul Islam.
