kolkata social media users are upbeat with news of the bangladesh governments move to create its own social media platform jogajog as an alternative to facebook and alapon as an alternative to whatsapp bangladeshs state minister for information and communication technology zunaid ahmed palak has announced this news on july 24at the inaugural function of entrepreneurship masterclass series 2 the minister said through this jogajog app the entrepreneurs of the country will be able to create their own online marketplace and group for information data and communication he also explained how his ministry successfully created boithok app as an alternative to zoom online and surokkha app for vaccine registration bangladeshi stage and film director nasiruddin yousuff has seen the interview of state minister and is waiting for the details of the platform a bangladeshi film has gone to cannes and now an app to compete with facebook being a freedom fighter i am happy with the strides the nation is taking on its 50th year of independence he saidmymensinghborn sarod player sharif arefin rony who enrolled into rabindra bharati university in 2019 has also welcomed this initiative i feel so proud to hear that my country is taking such technological initiatives to compete with global leaders he said from kolkatadhakabased director sazzad khan is excited about jogajog and alapon he already uses stateowned landphone operator bangladesh telecommunication company ltds overthetop ott calling application called alaap it is a very handy app gets updated regularly and can even be used to make calls abroad at a rate thats cheaper than phone calls khan said according to him it is good that the government is creating new appsdhakabased businessman mohammad munna is also another alaap user who is happy with the high video and audio quality of calls made by this app it is completely secure one can use this to make any international calls for work and business purposes now i am looking forward to jogajog munna saidrony also pointed out that the youth of bangladesh is now attempting a lot of new things especially in the it sector i hear of so many apps being created from bangladesh finally the population of bangladesh is turning into an asset for the nation he said