"Data" is being considered as the most valuable resource in the world now, said State Minister for ICT, Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Thursday.
He said the more information a country or nation has and is able to process and analyze it properly, the more wealthy that country or nation is said to be.
He was addressing the inaugural session of a daylong online training on "BigData", organized by the “Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project” of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division.
State Minister inaugurated the program on Thursday through video conferencing under the "Education for Nation" of Startup Bangladesh- iDEA project.
Senior Secretary of ICT Division N M ZeaulAlam PAA and the executive director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Parthapratim Deb were the special guests on the opening.
As the chief guest, State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak said, Bangladesh is the 8th most populous country in the world where about 17 crore people are constantly generating data. "Data" is being considered as the most valuable resource in the world now.
The more information a country or nation has and is able to process and analyze it properly, the more wealthy that country or nation is said to be.
Specially in this Corona situation, the government is trying to provide education to about four crore students and provide primary health care to 17 crore people by using online technology from March 2020 till now, in the last 3 months.
While addressing, senior Secretary of ICT Division N M Zeaul Alam said, Data-based policies are more sustainable and effective. So whenever we talk about creating evidence-based policy, we need to increase data resources and pieces of information.
The more we improve in data management, the better our policies will be. We have started practicing it which we have to continue. However, if we can increase the work in this regard in Bangladesh, we will be able to be richer in data resources.
The executive director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Parthapratim Deb, as a special guest said that one of the resources of the modern age is information or data.
The online program was presided over by the project director (Additional Secretary) of the iDEA Project Syed Mojibul Huq.
He said in his welcome address that the era ahead is the era of Frontier Technology. Therefore, the iDEA project is organizing such events to encourage young people about Frontier Technology.
This training focuses on Making sense of Bigdata, Bigdata& Smart Analytics, and how can we harness opportunities in Bigdata as topics.
More than 60 trainees from Chittagong Division took part in the training through the online platform Zoom and will be awarded certificates later.
