{"id":982,"date":"2013-11-09T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalapps.asholei.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2013-11-09T12:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T06:48:53","slug":"develop-apps-for-public-services-it-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Develop apps for public services: IT experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalapps.asholei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bs0115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-983 alignnone\" alt=\"bs0115\" src=\"http:\/\/nationalapps.asholei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bs0115.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bs0115.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bs0115-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bs0115-253x136.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leading IT experts\u00a0 on Friday, June 28, 2013 called for mobile applications that would streamline different services provided by the government offices for ease of access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe developers should look to designing applications for various public services,\u201d said Nazrul Islam Khan, secretary of the information and communication technology ministry.<br \/>\n\u201cWe also have plans to develop a local app store to ensure ICT services for the people,\u201d he said, adding that the country has great potential to generate interesting contents for smartphone users.<br \/>\nKhan\u2019s comments came at a conference titled \u201cApps Development: Contents\u201d organised by the ICT ministry at The Daily Star Centre in the capital.<br \/>\nBut before that can happen, a platform needs to be put in place that financially rewards the developer for coming up with apps, Syed Mahmudul Hasan, marketing lead of Nokia, said.<br \/>\n\u201cAs things stand, a developer gets no benefit when his\/her app is downloaded, which is holding back the local app market from flourishing.\u201d<br \/>\nSM Ashraf Abir, chief executive officer of Multimedia Content and Communication, too called for benefits for the owners of the contents, while urging the government to introduce a billing solution to ensure payment for the app developers.<br \/>\n\u201cAfter discussions with Google, Nokia and Microsoft we will request the Bangladesh Bank to approve a billing solution,\u201d the ICT secretary said in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we can generate more content in the local market, tech giants like Google and Yahoo! would be drawn towards Bangladesh,\u201d said Kazi Monirul Kabir, country consultant of Google.<br \/>\nRajesh Palit, an associate professor at North South University, recommended setting up mobile labs in universities and providing scholarships, to develop the local industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSales of traditional PCs will drop by 7.6 percent in 2013, while mobile devices will exceed world population by 2014,\u201d he said, adding that tablet sales would rise 70 percent and smartphone 4.3 percent this year.<br \/>\nZunaid Ahmed Palak, a member of the parliamentary standing committee on the ICT ministry, said the country would be left behind if it does not fully adopt the ICT. \u201cNow is the time to board on an ICT-based economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading IT experts\u00a0 on Friday, June 28, 2013 called for mobile applications that would streamline different services provided by the government offices for ease of access. \u201cThe developers should look to designing applications for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalappsbangladesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}