Bangladesh Working Group on World Summit on the Information Society Formed!

Bangladesh Working group on WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society)
has been formed with Chairperson Syed Marghub Murshed, Chairman,
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission and Co-Chairperson Dr.
Mizanur Rahman Shelley, Chairman, Center for Development Research
Bangladesh (CDRB) and Karar Mahmudul Hasan, Secretary, Ministry of Science
and ICT, Government of Bangladesh.

Reza Salim, Associate Director of Bangladesh Friendship Education Society
(BFES) will act as Member-secretary and AHM Bazlur Rahman, Chief Executive
Officer, Bangladesh Coastal NGOs Network for Radio & Communication
(BCNNRC), and Ahmed Swapan Mahmud, Executive Director, VOICE will act as
members for the Group.

The Group will arrange consultation meetings on ICT and Development, and
work to formulate a position paper for Bangladesh to address the WSIS
process in Asia PrepCom to be held in Japan  and finally the  summit held
in Switzerland in 2003.