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'Smart Bangladesh' is and innovative vision of the Government of Bangladesh to make the country a technologically enabled high income nation by 2041. It refers to the use of advanced technologies to improve the quality of people's life. and entails four pillars: smart citizen, smart society, smart economy, and smart government. Smart citizen is about empowering citizens with a digital-first mindset. Citizens in the smart society will be embedded with, inter alia, digital tolerance, ethics and values. Smart economy implies an innovation economy to enable a country to be on the forefront of industrial technology revolution. Smart governance implements paperless offices and digital services in prority areas, such as, healthcare, education, and revenue management. However, digital divide and lack of infrastructure in rural ares still need to be addressed to ensure equal benefits of smart technology for all citizens. Otherwise, the vision of transforming Bangladesh into a developed country by 2041 would remain a far cry.

The ultimate goal of 'Smart Bangladesh' is to-

• A. enrich the well-bening of citizens
• B. enrich the well-bening of citizens
• C. enrich the well-bening of citizens
• D. enrich the well-bening of citizens

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