It is assumed that Bangladesh is going to establish digital diplomatic relation with a technologically developed country through appointment of a High Commissioner who is highly qualified and experienced in digital technology. It is learnt from different media that Prof. Dr. Sayeedur Rahman Khan former Vice Chancellor who was also chairman of the department of Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering at Rajshahi University is going to be appointed as High Commissioner of Bangladesh in Great Britain. Dr.Khan is basically a university professor but he may be recognized as a scientist, technologist, researcher as well as an administrator considering his vast experience in diverse fields .
Just after parliament election held on 29th December 2008, I have written articles on the national newspapers raising the importance of digital diplomats for Bangladesh and requested the respected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to appoint digital diplomats to some countries. As mentioned in the article, the diplomats are the great generators of information, knowledge, and intelligence about the world and foreign ministries represent the institutional repositories. Diplomats of many countries are now empowered with ICT and become digital diplomats to adjust with rest of the world. Recently the UK has actively recruited “digital diplomats” and they were looking for a director of the digital management for their Cabinet Office in the White Hall. The responsibilities of the director of the digital management have been described in another article written by me. The Prime Minister was also requested to hire a director of digital management for her Cabinet office like other Commonwealth member countries.
Appointment of Dr. Sayeedur Rahman Khan as High Commissioner of UK is a unique decision of the present government for which the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as well as the Minister for Foreign Affairs should be praised. As my university classmate, I had immense opportunity to observe him very closely. He was an extra ordinary brilliant student who never stood second. After a long gap we met again in Rajshahi to organize the Commonwealth supported training programme to empower the women medical doctors and scientists with ICT and his cooperation enabled me to successfully complete the programme in right time. In establishing the ICT based University in northern region, Dr. Khan extended his full cooperation in selections of teachers and course curriculum design. His scientific and technological knowledge can bring a tremendous change in Bangladesh through establishing digital relationships with the technologically rich counties like UK, USA, Canada, Japan, Korea, China, India and Malaysia. Through appointment of a well qualified and digitally literate High Commissioner in a Commonwealth country, the Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh has opened the digital door to 52 Commonwealth countries. It is expected that Dr. Khan will create an excellent example of technological development in Bangladesh in cooperation of the Commonwealth Science Council (CSC) and CFTC based in London.
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