Bangladesh: A Surprise Digital Leader in Asia-539141
Bangladesh: A Surprise Digital Leader in Asia Sajeeb Wazed 3rd March, 2021 10:20:55 More than a decade ago, Bangladesh pledged to transform itself into a technologically advanced nation by 2021, the 50th anniversary of the nation's founding. Not many people believed we could do it. After all, when Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina–the project's chief champion–took office in 2009, only 20 million Bangladeshis had mobile phones. But now more than 120 million Bangladeshis do, and millions more have access to high-speed connections even in remote villages. Countless lives have been improved and sa...