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The importance of financial literacy is paramount in the age of the global financial crisis. Familiarity with the idea of saving and investing, and knowledge concerning shares, mutual funds, stock exchanges, and various forms of deposits can help a person face life's financial inconveniences more strongly than ever before. Sound financial literacy can not only help people at a personal level, but it will also benefit the nation as a whole resulting in a more efficient and flexible economy.

In order to achieve this dream, the general population -- especially the young people (i.e. students), should be educated at the secondary level about making strong financial decisions even before they actually are in a position to make them. However, this alone is not enough, as it needs to be complimented by a process which educates the teachers regarding the financial system and how one can benefit from a good understanding of it.

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The MIS-Health of DGHS with collaboration from iStrategy Ltd. and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) organized a three-day workshop on 'Future Scenario Planning of HIS and e-Health in Bangladesh' from 21 to 23 August 2011 at MIS Auditorium, MIS-Health, DGHS, Mohakhali, Dhaka.

The desired outcome is a scenario planning exercise for digital health in Bangladesh to result in a better understanding of the variety of possible futures for digital health over the next decade. This understanding will hopefully lead to better collaboration across sectors and wider engagement of stakeholders in driving towards the future they want to see, versus one which might be suboptimal.We also hope that a scenario approach will help the stakeholders in Bangladesh agree on a ‘North Star’ in terms of goals for digital health, which will help align their efforts towards this common goal even in...