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Developing a
National CT Strategy
for
Bangladesh
Promised Land: The
Story of PalestinianIsraeli Conflict
US Foreign Policy in
South Asia
The State of Terrorism
in Bangladesh 20092010
BEI People Peace
Building Programme
Japan & South Asia:
Focus on Bangladesh
India Relations
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Mapping of IT System
in Health and Issues of
Interoperability
E-Health Scenario in
Bangladesh
Farooq Sobhan
President
Bangladesh Enterprise Institute
BEI Profile
BEI is an independent and non-profit
research centre which has given special
importance to the growth and development
of the private sector. The institute promotes
and articulates issues of importance to the
private sector and seeks to influence policy
to initiate measures crucial to the
development of a market oriented economy,
as well as sustainable growth of trade,
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BEI, in association
with the Bangladesh
Investment
Climate
Fund
(BICF),
organized a workshop
on Success Case
Presentation
Registration
of
Designs
and
Trademarks
for
p r e s e n t i n g
Administrative Barrier
Review (ABR) follow-up study reports on
May 28, 2011 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon
Hotel.
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Rizvi,
Adviser
to
Honble Prime Minister,
inaugurated
the
workshop as the Chief
Gues t.
Dr.
Atiur
Rahman, Governor of
the Bangladesh Bank,
was present at the
workshop
as
the
Special Guest.
Four reports of the
working groups were
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presented
by
the
concerned
g r o u p BangladeshBank,Mr.FarooqSobhan,President,
members at the session BEI,DrGowherRizvi,AdvisertoHonblePrime
of the workshop. Both the MinisterandMs.LauraWatson,Representative
fromInternationalFinanceCorporation(IFC)
Chief Guest and the
Special Guest distributed
certificates among the participants at the
workshop.
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A delegation from
BEI organized a roundtable on Countering Terrorism in Bangladesh for seven member visiting delegation of the National War College
(NWC), USA at BEI Conference Room on Thurs-
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security experts.
The report presented the current threat assessment and possible responses in countering terrorism in Bangladesh. It also identified
different aspects in the trends of terrorism in
Bangladesh.
Participants at the workshop stressed on developing the de-radicalization techniques by
the government as part of its counterterrorism measures.
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Commissioner,
attended the
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Regional Symposium on
Improving Trade Flows in and from South Asia:
Overcoming logistics Challenges
From Right to Left Ambassador Humayun
Kabir, Vice-President,
BEI, Mr. Farooq Sobhan,
President, BEI, Col Muhammad Faruk Khan,
Honorable Minister of
Commerce, Mr. Sujeevan Perera, Adviser
from Commonwealth
Secretariat
Dr. Debapriya
Bhattacharya,
Distinguished
Fellow, Center for
Policy Dialogue
(CPD), spoke at the
Session
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Dialogue on
Role of Media in Effective Implementation of the RTI Process
On 19 April 2011, at the Information Commission
Bangladesh, a dialogue on Role of Media in Effective
Implementation of the RTI Process was organized by
BEI under a project titled Program on Implementing the
Right to Information Act 2009 in Bangladesh.
Ambassador Muhammad Zamir, Chief Information
Commissioner, Information Commission Bangladesh,
chaired the workshop. Ambassador Humayun Kabir, Vice
President of BEI, and two information commissioners
Md. Abu Taher and Prof Dr. Sadeka Halim also spoke at
the session. Participants of the workshop included policy
makers, senior representatives from the government,
development agencies, NGOs, the private sector,
academia, and the media.
The main objective of the workshop was to highlight the
significant role of media in effective and proper
implementation of the RTI process in Bangladesh.
Participants at the workshop emphasized the same
Participants pointed out the areas where the IT system could play a
significant role in developing health services across the country,
particularly the establishment of e-health facilities in the remote areas
of Bangladesh.
Workshop on
E-Health Scenario in Bangladesh
BEI organized a three day workshop on E-Health Scenario in Bangladesh on 21-23
August 2011 at MIS Auditorium, DGHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka.
Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, Director, MIS, DGHS, was the Chief Guest. Participants of the
workshop included senior government officials, officials from the private sectors
particularly IT and Telecom Industries, international and local e-Health experts,
representatives from public and private hospitals, development partners, NGOs,
academia, corporate houses and media.
The objective of the workshop was to do a scenario planning exercise for better
understanding of future possibilities for digital health in Bangladesh over the next few
decades. Participants at the workshop discussed the challenges and opportunities to
promote E-Health in Bangladesh. They also discussed various methods and plans on
how to promote E-Health facilities unto the grassroots levels of Bangladesh.
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This workshop
Corporate
Governance in
BEI.
can be seen as a
a new chapter of
The workshop looked specifically at board functioning of the financial institutions and drew
on lessons learnt from the financial crisis. During the session, five key elements of board
leadership were identified and discussed. These elements were as follows:
rights
and
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