DHAKA: BCS and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) urge to use one of the most popular online social networking services ‘facebook’ in many ways by inaugurating Bangla language in it, setting up local office, developing local application and so on.

The president of BCS and Managing Director of Computer Source AHM Mahfujul Arif and president of BASIS and Chief Executive of ekhoni.com Shamim Ahsan made the announcement in a meeting after visiting the headquarters of facebook, located at Silicon Valley of USA, on Saturday.

The tour was led by State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak.

The experts said that the facebook can be used for educational, training, awareness and business purpose in a wide range.

State Minister of ICT ministry Junaid Ahmed Palak said that if facebook deals its operations directly in Bangladesh then the government will avail online payment gateway to the company.

He also mentioned the enthusiasm of young generation in facebook in our country. There are some 3.5-crore facebook users in our country and the number of users will be increased to 10-crore by 2021, he added.

The state minister also invited the directors of facebook to visit Bangladesh. In a response of the invitation facebook head of policy program Lica Foster desired to visit Bangladesh shortly.

The Director of BCS Ali Ashfak, Managing Director of Daffodil Computers Ltd M Sabur Khan and general secretary of BASIS Rasel T Ahmed were also present there.

BDST: 1908 HRS, MAY 17, 2014