Microsoft founder Bill Gates made a quick visit to Bangladesh in 2004 at Tarique Rahman’s invitation, according to Prime Minister’s Press Secretary AAM Saleh Shibly.
“The incumbent Prime Minister Tarique Rahman met Bill Gates in the United States in 2004 and invited him to visit Bangladesh. After that, Bill Gates came on a brief visit,” he said.
The press secretary said this while speaking at a policy dialogue titled ‘Building Bangladesh’s Digital Future: Telecom, Data and Cyber Security Bill 2026’, organised by Bangladesh ICT Stakeholders Alliance (BISA) at a club in the capital on Saturday evening.
“The Prime Minister always says, ‘we may have differences of opinion, but we wanted a democratic state’. But in the past few days, the kind of language being used online by a group to criticize is not the language of people,” Shibly said, adding, using abusive language is not freedom of speech.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon spoke as the honored guest, while Dr. Abdul Moyeen Khan, a member of the BNP Standing Committee, was the main guest.
BISA President Faisal Alim presided over the program, which was also addressed by BISA Chief Advisor Mustafa Rafiqul Islam Duke and Dhaka South City Corporation Administrator Bir Muktijoddha Md Abdus Salam.
The discussion was attended by ICT industry policymakers, legal professionals, and entrepreneurs.
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