The seminar was organised by public sector group of Microsoft Bangladesh to enhance the expertise of the local officials, says a press release.

The overview of interoperability challenges in Bangladesh was highlighted by a senior official from Bangladesh Computer Council.

The key presentations were delivered by Oliver Bell, regional technology officer, Stephen Mutkoski and Jeff Paine, regional government engagement programme manager of Microsoft Asia Pacific.

The seminar was inaugurated by Feroz Mahmud, country manager, while KM Imran Al-Amin, public sector manager of Microsoft Bangladesh, was also present.

Tarique Mosaddique Barkatullah, senior systems analyst, Bangladesh Computer Council, provided an overview of the interoperability challenges in Bangladesh e-governance initiatives, and updated about the efforts of Bangladesh towards a national e-governance interoperability framework that is currently going on and its future plans.

Oliver Bell said, "Interoperability is an increasingly important topic of discussion among customers of technology products. Heeding calls by customers, technology vendors are now devoting significant resources to identifying and solving real world customer interoperability issues, he added.

Bell said Microsoft is deploying all of these tools, designing products so that they are interoperable with other products out of the box, without need for extensive consulting services, collaborating with others in the community to jointly solve interoperability challenges, broadening the ways we provide access to our technologies so that others can create interoperable solutions, and participating in efforts to develop standards that create common solutions to interoperability challenges."

The seminar was attended by over 50 participants from public sector, industry leaders and members of the academia.