Bangladesh launches secure messaging app ‘Alapon’ for public servants

[Bilal9]

Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-09-05 14:31:30.0 BdST Updated: 2016-09-05 14:34:08.0 BdST

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday launched the app ‘Alapon’ developed by the government’s ICT Division, which will facilitate messaging and file sharing.

The Cabinet Division said in a statement that the prime minister launched it before the weekly Cabinet meeting.

Government officials will be able to communicate with each other through this app, much like Viber, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam told reporters. “The prime minister spoke with Barisal’s deputy commissioner through the app.”

The Cabinet division said the app has features like chat, online calls, video calls, group messaging, file sharing and location sharing,

Alapon, is available for free download in Apple’s App Store and Google play store.

It said government officials will be able to download it with their National ID numbers on devices which uses the mobile phone number they provided for the official database.

The app is secure enough for conversations and files and optimised to minimise cost for the government officers, says the Cabinet division statement.

 

[dray]

'Alapon' broadly means chatting in our Bengali language, what does it mean in Bangladeshi language??

 

[Homo Sapiens]

'Alapon' broadly means chatting in our Bengali language, what does it mean in Bangladeshi language??

Same as west Bengal language.

 

[dray]

Same as west Bengal language.

Okay, that's expected since Bangladeshi language is based on our Bengali language, especially the official version is totally copied from us.

It's not that we are complaining, we always believed in 'help thy neighbour', and happy to give Bangladeshis a civilized language rich in literary value.

 

[Avisheik]

The app will mostly be used to keep tabs on public servants

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Okay, that's expected since Bangladeshi language is based on our Bengali language, especially the official version is totally copied from us.

It's not that we are complaining, we always believed in 'help thy neighbour', and happy to give Bangladeshis a civilized language rich in literary value.

It is not like that.What is called official version is actually the local dialect of Jessor district of Bangladesh.Your Nadia district people also use the same dialect.During partition we got half of Nadia district and you got only a small part of Jessore district.This Jessore/Nadia local dialect was used to form the standardized version of Bengali language.So it is basically our language which you borrowed to form standardized Bengali language.

 

[dray]

It is not like that.What is called official version is actually the local dialect of Jessor district of Bangladesh.Your Nadia district people also use the same dialect.During partition we got half of Nadia district and you got only a small part of Jessore district.This Jessore/Nadia local dialect was used to form the standardized version of Bengali language.So it is basically our language which you borrowed to form standardized Bengali language.

The official or formal version of the Bengali language was basically formed in Kolkata, the sentence formations, words, grammar, it's poetic forms, written forms, spellings, everything was formalized by us. Bangladeshi language is a direct copy of our Bengali language.

The concept is simple:

People of Bengal are Bengali or Bangali and their language is Bengali or Bangali.

People of Bangladesh are Bangladeshi and their language is Bangladeshi.

Let's agree to agree.

 

[Anubis]

@Rain Man @Doyalbaba bhaiera thamen.....manushjon apnader dekhle hashahashi korbe.

 

[dray]

@Rain Man @Doyalbaba bhaiera thamen.....manushjon apnader dekhle hashahashi korbe.

Ami polapangulare ektu khochaitasi...!!

 

[Riyad]

The official or formal version of the Bengali language was basically formed in Kolkata, the sentence formations, words, grammar, it's poetic forms, written forms, spellings, everything was formalized by us. Bangladeshi language is a direct copy of our Bengali language.

The concept is simple:

People of Bengal are Bengali or Bangali and their language is Bengali or Bangali.

People of Bangladesh are Bangladeshi and their language is Bangladeshi.

Let's agree to agree.

People of Bangladesh are Bangladeshi Bangali and their language is Bangla.

 

[kobiraaz]

The official or formal version of the Bengali language was basically formed in Kolkata, the sentence formations, words, grammar, it's poetic forms, written forms, spellings, everything was formalized by us. Bangladeshi language is a direct copy of our Bengali language.

The concept is simple:

People of Bengal are Bengali or Bangali and their language is Bengali or Bangali.

People of Bangladesh are Bangladeshi and their language is Bangladeshi.

Let's agree to agree.

Reformer Pramath Chowdhury was from Pabna though.

 

[dray]

Reformer Pramath Chowdhury was from Pabna though.

He was born as an Indian, and he died as an Indian, and in between he lived as an Indian.....he was an Indian.

 

[Nilgiri]

@waz @WAJsal

Another non-defence related topic.

 

[kobiraaz]

He was born as an Indian, and he died as an Indian, and in between he lived as an Indian.....he was an Indian.

Ok Indian, Where is your ancestral home?

 

[dray]

Ok Indian, Where is your ancestral home?

My ancestral home was in India