2024-02-16 01:47:44
Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Muhammad Ali Arafat has urged everyone to come together to prevent misuse of cyber security law.
He made this call during the panel discussion of the workshop titled ‘Role of Media in Building Smart Bangladesh’ at the BCS Administration Academy Auditorium in Shahbagh of the capital on Thursday (February 15) afternoon.
Mohammad Ali Arafat said, not only the cyber security law, but everyone should stand united against the misuse of any law. The government does not want innocent people to suffer through misuse of any law.
The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting also said that the government agrees with the demands of journalists to determine qualifications in journalism. He said, according to the demands of journalists, there should be something to determine the qualification in journalism. Whenever the government says this, it will be said that the government is trying to control. That is why journalists should raise their voice on this issue. This should be written in all places in the country and abroad. You have to make a statement in the national and international arena that you want it. The government agreed with the demands of the journalists. The government has no problem with this. The government will resolve the issue.
After I took charge, professional journalists demanded that a definition of journalists should be determined, there should be an examination system, there should be a definition – who is a journalist and who is not a journalist. Journalists are saying that there should be a list of journalists. Why are you saying? Because many amateurs have entered this community. Journalists are the most affected by them. But, whenever the government says, the list is being prepared; Then another group will say, why the list will be made of journalists. That’s why you have to come forward,’ said the state minister.
The state minister said that the fight of information against misinformation is very important. The battle of information and disinformation is still going on. Journalists have an opportunity to play a role in preventing disinformation through training.
He added, the power of the Liberation War has been attacked at various times by propaganda and lies. Where truth stops, falsehood and falsehood take place.
Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University and academician Professor Dr. AMS Arefin Siddique, Senior Secretary of Ministry of Public Administration Mohammad Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury and Senior Secretary of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Humayun Kabir Khondkar participated in the panel discussion. The moderator of the panel discussion was Rector (Secretary) of BCS Administration Academy. Md. Omar Farooq
Ministry of Public Administration organized this workshop in collaboration with BCS Administration Academy. Members of Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum participated in the workshop.