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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
Signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Strategic Partnership on the Preparatory Process of the Global Digital Compact and Summit of the Future 2024</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"><b>Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the Strategic
Partnership in a meeting held at BTRC HQs on 9 April 2024 to accelerate the preparation of the Global Digital Compact, UN Summit of the Future 2024, and intervention in Internet Governance in Bangladesh.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);"><b>Bangladesh Initiative for Unified Voices on Global Digital Compact & Summit of the Future 2024, under the auspices of the Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum
(BIGF) & Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC), has been actively engaging stakeholders since 2022. This engagement encompasses various actors, including Parliamentarians, Government officials, the UN system, private sector representatives,
Media, technical communities, civil society organisations (CSOs), academia, and youth communities.</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><b>Dhaka, Bangladesh, 9 April 2024 -
</b></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">are committed to accelerating the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development implementation the
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> seek to strengthen their partnership by focusing on jointly selected priorities and by pursuing a more strategic and coordinated collaboration by leveraging their
respective strengths and broadening their combined impact, building on existing and new collaborations.</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) were signed in a meeting held at BTRC headquarters
between BIGF Secretary-General <b>Mohammad Abdul Haque</b> and </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Lt. Col. S M Rezaur Rahman, psc, sigs,
</b>Director - </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Systems and Services division</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> of
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);"><b>Engr. Md. Mohiuddin Ahmed</b>, Chairman; Md. Aminul Haque, Vice-Chairman; Engr. Sheikh Reaz Ahmed, Commissioner; Dr Musfiq Mannan Choudhury, FIDM, FCIM, Commissioner;
and Md. Delowar Hossain, the Commissioner, Brig Gen Mohammad Khalil-Ur-Rahman, ndc, psc, te, Director General of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), and other senior Officials were present.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Mr. Hasanul Haq Inu (former MP and Minister) Chairperson, Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman, Vice Chairperson of BIGF and Executive Coordinator of Bangladesh Initiative for Unified
Voices on Global Digital Compact and UN Summit of the Future 2024, and Mr. Hiren Pandit, Policy Research Fellow of Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum were at the signing ceremony.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Engr. Md. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Chairman of BTRC, presided over the signing ceremony. Brig Gen Mohammad Khalil-Ur-Rahman, ndc, psc, te, Director General of the Bangladesh
Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), moderated the session.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">In his speech, the chairperson, Mr. Hasanul Haq Inu (former MP and Minister), mentioned that the signing of the MoU will open a further window for working with BTRC
on a large scale to implement Summit of the Future 2024 and Digital Compact.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Engr. Md. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Chairman of BTRC, said that the BRTC has been providing various support to the BIGF in the last couple of years, and the signing of the
MoU will strengthen our initiatives. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">The Memorandum of Understanding will be structured and advanced along the following eleven key focus areas: working in collaboration to implement the initiatives of
IGF in Bangladesh; working together for Digital Inclusion and Connectivity so that all people, including all schools, can connect to the Internet; and ensuring Internet Governance to avoid internet fragmentation, safeguarding the mechanism of Data protection,
data sharing and data privacy, promoting data innovation, open data, big data and data-driven decision-making for the public good, uphold human rights online, ensuring digital technology and security to prevent discrimination and the dissemination of misleading
content, prioritizing the regulation of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies, promoting the digital commons as a global public good, accelerate the progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other national and international
development plans and supporting to organize the preparatory intervention on the Global Digital Compact and the UN Summit of the Future 2024.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Because of their respective mandates,
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(20, 20, 20);">Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) may inform and consult with each other, as appropriate,
on additional issues of mutual interest in which cooperation may foster their respective and collective purposes.</span></p>
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