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BANGLADESH LAGS BEHIND IN ICT SECTOR’S PROGRESS: ITU

Taufiq Hossain Mobin 07 July, 2024, 22:45
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Bangladesh is lagging behind in terms of making progress in the information and
communication technology sector, according to a report published by the
International Telecommunication Union.

The country scored 62.00 points in the recently published ‘ICT Development Index
2024’ by the specialised agency of the United Nations, while the average score
for the lower middle-income countries was 64.80.






The index reviewed the progress of ICT services in 170 countries of the world,
including Bangladesh, based on data collected in 2022.

The global average score for the ICT sectors progress in this year’s index is
74.80.

The IDI Index primarily focused on two things, universal connectivity and
meaningful connectivity.

While Bangladesh scored well in the meaningful connectivity section, with 84.50
points, it showed disappointing performance in universal connectivity section,
with 39.40 points.

The index defined universal and meaningful connectivity (UMC) as the possibility
for everyone to enjoy a safe, satisfying, enriching and productive online
experience at an affordable cost.

The meaningful connectivity pillar is dominated by infrastructure indicators,
where it is arguably easier to achieve high scores.



The universal connectivity pillar, by contrast, depends more on adoption by
consumers.

The report showed that Bangladesh made a little progress than the previous year.

The country scored 61.10 points in the IDI 2023 index.

BM Mainul Hossain, director of the Institute of Information Technology at the
University of Dhaka, told New Age that the country’s connectivity infrastructure
might have improved, but the number of smart phone users had not increased much.

‘We will soon graduate from the LDC status, but strategies regarding
connectivity have not yet reached to that standard. Investing in infrastructures
is good, but until the number of smart phone users and digital literacy increase
in the country, it will not bear much advantage,’ he said.

According to the index, only Pakistan stayed behind Bangladesh in terms of
progress in the ICT sector.

The other neighbouring countries on the list, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives,
Vietnam and Bhutan scored 63.80 points, 71.30 points, 81.50 points, 85 points
and 85.90 points respectively, according to the IDI 2024 index.

Among the 10 indicators of the index, the internet usage rate of individuals in
Bangladesh is 38.90 per cent and 38.10 per cent of households has internet
access.

It was the same in the previous index. That is, according to the report,
internet users in Bangladesh have not increased.

According to the index, mobile broadband internet traffic per mobile broadband
subscription in the country was 78.70 GB in 2022, and fixed broadband internet
traffic per fixed broadband subscription was 1,195.50 GB.

It mentioned that 61.80 per cent of individuals owned a mobile phone in the
country in 2022.

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