The government will organise a weeklong event in all 487 upazilas to promote the use of internet.

Mobile operator Grameenphone and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) will join hands with the ICT Division to organise the event: Bangladesh Internet Week 2015.

The seven-day event will start on September 5 and three expos on internet will also be held during the period, organisers said in a press meet at Westin hotel in Dhaka yesterday.

Major e-commerce companies, mobile application developers, web portals, device manufacturers and internet products and services providers will join the show, they said, adding that free internet browsing will be a key attraction of the event.

The first expo will take place in Banani in Dhaka on September 5; the second in Rajshahi Nankin Bazaar on September 9 and the final event will be held at Sylhet City Indoor Stadium on September 11.

The initiative will boost the digitisation process and encourage people to adopt modern services, said Zunaid Ahmed Palak, state minister for ICT.

“The largest event of its kind covering the country's 487 upazilas is an unprecedented one, which has not taken place anywhere in the world before.”

This public-private initiative will play a vital role in the continued development and improvement of the country's ICT sector, he said.

“We have a plan to fix the lower and upper limit prices of internet packages.”

Shameem Ahsan, BASIS president; Yasir Azman, Grameenphone chief marketing officer; and Russell T Ahmed, senior vice president of BASIS and convener of the internet week, also spoke.