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An e-content repository for Bangladesh
The government of Bangladesh has put together a National e-Content Repository meant to empower rural people, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, by giving citizens easy access to information on education, agriculture, health, law, human rights and citizen service.
Right now, the programme has the participation of 148 government organisations and 50 local and foreign non-government organisations.
With the repository, there is no longer a need to “go to districts for information and spending money and time”, said Hasina.
The information put up is in writing, audio, video and animation formation—making it easy to understand and accessible to those who are illiterate. All mobile phone operators in Bangladesh have also been asked to prepare mobile content in the national language—Bangla.
Within the repository are 50,000 pages of information which is expected to be increased to 5 million pages by 2013, said Nazrul Islam Kha, National Project Director, Access to Information (A2I) programme.
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