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Palak for raising social awareness against rumor
DHAKA, Nov 12, 2020 (BSS) – Calling upon the cross section of
people to be aware against rumor and propaganda spreading on the
social media, State Minister for Information Communication and
Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak today said all have to take stand
against falsehood and rumor campaign disseminating on the social
media.
“A vested quarter is trying to spread fake and false information in
a planned way in the society by abusing the information technology”,
he told the closing and prize distribution ceremony on a three-month
campaign ‘Asol Chini’ on zoom online here.
Digital security agency under the ICT division organized the programme.
In most of the cases, Palak said someone is being engaged in
committing propaganda against particular person, agency or country on
the modern facebook communication platform without any investigation.
Calling everyone to be aware and active against rumor, the state
minister said, both the teachers and guardians should be more careful
to encourage positive use of the social media.
The government has enacted digital security act in 2018, he said,
adding that digital security agency and computer incidence response
team also has been formed to identify the cyber criminals as a
technological breakthrough has been happened in the country over the
last 11 years.
Chaired by Digital Security Agency’s Director General and LICT
project director M Rezaul Karim, the opening session of the programme
was also joined by ICT division’s senior secretary NM Ziaul Alam, BCC
Executive director Partho Protim Dev, LICT project’s policy advisor
Sami Ahmed, BASIS president Syed Almas Kabir, Women and E-commerce
Forum president Nasima Akhter Nisha, Bangladesh Innovation Forum
Founder Arif Hasan Apu and Nasir Uddin Tito, uncle of Taslima Begum
Renu who lost her life being a victim of rumor.
Hasan Benaul Islam, digital communication specialist, moderated the function.
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