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Bangladesh ensured its stake in “Revolution 4.0”: Jabbar
DHAKA, April 11, 2019 (BSS) – Posts, telecommunications and information
technology minister Mustafa Jabbar today said Bangladesh has ensured its
stake in world’s “fourth industrial revolution” being the first country to
declare digital industrial revolution a decade ago.
“Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared ‘digital revolution’ on
December 12, 2008,” a ministry press release quoted him as saying at the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum-2019 in Geneva.
Jabbar, who is the chair of the five-day global event, said in the last ten
years “this revolution transformed the agro-economy-based Bangladesh into the
fourth industrial revolution in terms of efficiency”.
Jabbar said many countries were now talking about “revolution 4.0” which
is commonly referred to as the fourth industrial revolution.
The minister said technology and information are inevitable to build up a
knowledge-based and balanced society.
“Now each people and each country are connected and it’s the outcome of
technology . . . not the rich and developed countries alone, the developing
and poor countries have to work jointly to build up a balanced and knowledge-
based society,” he added.
The WSIS is a United Nations (UN) multi-stakeholder platform facilitating
the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines for advancing Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). It is co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and
UNCTAD, in close collaboration with all WSIS Action Line co-/facilitators and
other UN organizations.
Mentioning once Bangladesh was a country of agriculture-based economy,
Mustafa Jabbar said the country could not able to participate in the first
three industrial revolutions.
Each country of the world has separate perspective regarding 5G, robotic,
internet of things and other modern technologies as well which could be a
good opportunity for one while discomfort for another, he said, adding, “but,
each country has to adopt this opportunities of technology with own way.”
Bangladesh is very first time is chairing in the WSIS Forum since its
establishment, and this year more than 3,000 representatives including over
100 ministers from 150 countries are taking part at the forum which would end
April 12.
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