How ICT can assist economic development in Bangladesh and the South Asia region

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from ICTD News for 02 January 2003]

How ICT can assist economic development in Bangladesh and the South 
Asia region 

Bangladesh resident Partha Pratim Sarker, 32, who with his partner 
Frederick Noronha founded the Bytesforall network from South Asia, is 
optimistic about Bangladesh, and the potential of ICT to spur 
economic development. "In the West, Bangladesh is known as a country 
of disaster, poverty, cyclone and all those things. But there are 
things going on in Bangladesh that have much potential," he said, 
"and that needs to be portrayed also." 

read complete story at 
http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4840&do=gpage which 
refers to 
http://www.centerdigitalgov.com/international/arenastory.php?docid=365
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