DHAKA, May 12, 2022 (BSS) -'Boithok', a government's video conferencing 
platform, will now be expanded to public offices across the country to hold 
virtual meetings aimed at securing official conversations and communications.
 
"The government is going to extend the usage of 'Boithok' at its offices 
across the country gradually," sources said. 
 
As part of extending the usage of Boithok, BCC has taken initiatives to 
provide training to officials of each of the 64 districts about its functions 
and usage, the sources added. 
 
Currently, the platform is being used only in the Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs, Financial Institution Division, Economic Relations Division, 
Security Services Division, Bangladesh Police, Energy and Mineral Resources 
Division, ICT Division, BCC, Department of ICT (DoICT), Digital Security 
Agency (DSA) on regular basis.  

During pandemic, last year e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD 
e-Gov CIRT) of the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division 
developed Boithok for using at in government offices instead of using video 
conferencing platforms like Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to ensure 
the security of information.
 
"Step has been taken to hold training for the officials of 64 district 
offices to extend the usage of Boithok at all government offices," said 
Executive Director of BCC Dr Abdul Mannan adding a workshop will be held 
tomorrow at Chittagong Deputy Commissioner's office about the functions and 
usages of Boithok.
 
Dr Mannan said one of the most important features of the Boithok platform is 
the unlimited duration of the meeting and it supports meeting hosting with 
200 people, and the development team is working to extend the capability to 
500 people. 
 
The video and audio quality of the Boithok platforms are very smooth and 
clear and over 1,100 successful meetings have already been held on the 
Boithok platform so far and users can join a meeting just by clicking on a 
meeting link within a few seconds, he said.
  
Boithak is enabling the users to share their necessities, and thoughts 
through perfect instant secure video conferencing that create a real scenario 
of a virtual meeting.

"This platform is completely secure and users' data are entirely safe. Here 
no data/ recordings are stored outside of the country," said Project Director 
of (BGD e-Gov CIRT Tarique M Barkatullah and added it supports also an end-
to-end encryption feature.  
 
Tarique said this video conferencing application is very easy to use and user 
friendly too as it supports Android, IOS, Linux as well as all popular 
browsers that we use daily, he added.