Digital archive on Bangabandhu to be set up

The government will set up a digital archive on Bangabandhu to inform the new generation about various aspects of the life and ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The decision came from a meeting of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee on Thursday, said a press release.

The meeting was held at International Mother Language Institute in the city with Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, the chief coordinator of the committee, in the chair.

He said digital information, including video footages, clippings of newspapers and digital clips of Bangabandhu at home and abroad, will be collected and preserved in a single place through an archive, he added.

With the help of Access to Information (a2i) project, the archive will be developed, he said.

All the video footages based on Bangabandhu’s speech and activities will be collected from Bangladesh Film Archive, Press Institute of Bangladesh, Department of Films and Publications, Department of Archives and Library, Bangladesh Television and other private TV channels, he added.

Besides, Department of Archives and Library will also include updated information on Bangabandhu at its Bangabandhu Corner.

International Mother Language Institute Director General Prof Dr Zinnat Imtiaz Ali attended the meeting as the special guest.

Film Archive Director General (DG) Bidhan Chandra Karmakar, Department of Archive and Library DG Farid Uddin, National Poetry Council General Secretary Tarik Sujat and Additional Secretary of Cultural Affairs Ministry Md Nizam Uddin were present, among others, on the occasion.