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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

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  • Bangladesh: Jessore: First 'district e-service centre' launched

    The 'district e-service centre', the first of its kind in the country, was launched in Jessore Thursday through a function ushering in a new hope of taking all services of the district administration to the doorsteps of the people, reports BSS.

    "In line with the present government's plan to build Digital Bangladesh, the centre was launched in Jessore to reach all kinds of service of the district administration to the doorsteps of the people," Whip of the Jatiya Sangsad Sheikh Abdul Wahab told the inaugural function as the chief guest.

  • Bangladesh: Joy prefers e-governance for online govt info

    Sajib Wazed Joy, son of Leader of the Opposition in Parliament and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, called for e-governance initiatives in Bangladesh to ensure transparency and accountability of the government by putting all official information on-line, reports UNB.

    "I believe e-governance will eventually help eliminate corruption, which has become the number one problem today and the government has failed to contain it."

  • Bangladesh: Khandaker for emplementing e-governance to strengthen development activities

    Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (Retd) AK Khandaker on Wednesday underscored the need for implementing e-governance in strengthening planning, monitoring and evaluation of government's development activities by empowering field level administration in policy decisions.

    "E-Governance would not only set up a bridge between different ministries by sharing information and data among themselves but also ensure transparency in government activities," he said.

    The minister said this as the chief guest while inaugurating a dialogue titled "Strategic Priorities of Digital Bangladesh: Issue-based National Dialogue."

  • Bangladesh: Local Government Engineering Department prepares union level online digital mapping

    Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has taken massive measures to digitize its connectivity with rural areas through making digital maps up to union level as well as developing online rural data base.

    Geographical Information Service (GIS) of LGED has already prepared digital maps for all the unions of the country which will be available on their website soon.

  • Bangladesh: Local telemedicine firm plans to reach out to South Asian workers

    A Bangladeshi telemedicine company is set to provide healthcare services for more than five million South Asian workers in the Middle East and Malaysia in a couple of months.

    Telemedicine Reference Centre Ltd (TRCL) has already signed agreements with around 25 Gulf and Malaysian companies that recruit workers from South Asia.

    Telemedicine is a rapidly developing application of clinical medicine where medical information is transferred through the phone or the internet.

  • Bangladesh: Modern IT village to be set up at Mohakhali

    The government will set up a modern IT village at Karail of Mohakhali in the city.

    The work of the IT village, to be established on 47 acres, is expected to begin by this fiscal year, State Minister for Science, Information and Communication Technology Yafez Osman told BSS on Tuesday.

    "It has been included as a new project of the current fiscal year's annual development programme (ADP)," he said, adding that with the completion of the project it will be possible to provide more developed software and IT-based services at home and abroad.

  • Bangladesh: National Board of Revenue starts e-registration of businesses by Jan

    The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is going to introduce online registration service for business firms by next January, besides making sure unitary registration number for income tax, VAT, customs and registrar of joint stock companies.

    NBR Chairman Dr Naser uddin Ahmed said it on Thursday at a press briefing at its city office. He held the briefing to share NBR latest efforts towards establishing e-governance to bring better service facilities to tax payers by increasing use of technology to that end.

  • Bangladesh: Passport issue - Need for computerisation

    The report that people applying for passport have to pay a staggering amount of Tk 21 crore in bribe to the police, middlemen and corrupt employees and officials is indeed a shocking example of how the citizens' legitimate right to have a passport is being exploited ruthlessly. The harassment and financial loss that the passport seekers face can be attributed to a syndication of police, middlemen and the employees at the passport offices.

  • Bangladesh: Plan to start BTV edn channel

    Education Adviser Hossain Zillur Rahman yesterday said the government is planning to turn the second channel of Bangladesh Television (BTV) into a 24-hour educational channel with a view to boosting distance learning programme.

    "We have already taken necessary steps by consulting with the information ministry to start the education channel as early as possible," he said as the chief guest at a seminar in the city.

  • Bangladesh: PM pledges power decentralisation

    Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government will decentralise power for people's empowerment at the grassroots level.

    She observed that power is very much centralised in Bangladesh as the country was ruled by many military dictators for a long time after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.

  • Bangladesh: PM's son presents 'digital plan'

    Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, the only son of prime minister Hasina, delivered a presentation Tuesday in Dhaka on the government's initiatives to build a digitised Bangladesh.

    Sajeeb who was introduced as a computer scientist and IT specialist based in the United States, said the plan had four areas: e-governance, IT education, IT industry and IT outsourcing.

    "All of these are rested on infrastructure that is telecommunication."

  • Bangladesh: Policymakers' ICT know-how key to e-govt - Study says

    The government policymakers' ICT awareness and knowledge development are crucial for successful implementation of e-government in Bangladesh, according to a study.

    The four-year academic research styled 'e-Government for Bangladesh: A Strategic Pathway to Success' was launched on October 18 in Dhaka.

  • Bangladesh: PPR reforms to remove bar on ADP implementation

    More than 10,000 government officials will be reinforced with extensive training in different durations as part of the process to reform Public Procurement Regulations (PPR) and make it efficient and viable system.

    Official sources told BSS that lack of expertise and training on the PPR by concerned officials creates major hindrance in the full implementation of ADP in the past years.

  • Bangladesh: Prime Minister pledges e-governance to speed up development

    The government is working sincerely to introduce e-governance in public sectors to speed up development works, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

    “We want to use the information communication technology to speed up development works,” she said at the inauguration of the first reunion of National Defence College at Mirpur Cantonment in the capital.

    The prime minister said the government has been working to build a “digital” and prosperous Bangladesh by 2021.

  • Bangladesh: Provide Internet access to all, Experts tell int'l workshop

    Experts at an international workshop yesterday called for providing Internet access to all citizens to boost economic growth aimed at reducing poverty.

    They also underscored that the Internet access should be provided even before the country get connected to the information superhighway through submarine cable.

  • Bangladesh: Recruiting ICT human resources thru' revenue budget seen vital

    Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), a private think-tank, has recommended allowing revenue budget for recruitment of ICT human resources in government offices.

    "It is important to recruit ICT (information and communication technology) human resources through the revenue budget to ensure the sustainability of eGovernment projects, many of which are launched under the development budget through financial assistance from donor agencies," the BEI said in a recent study of eGovernment in Bangladesh.

  • Bangladesh: Reforms in bureaucracy not done yet - says ADB official

    The caretaker government has implemented many landmark governance reforms, but unfortunately one major reform that has remained untouched is of the sluggish and complex bureaucratic structure of the government, said Hua Du, country director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

    Hua Du said this at the monthly luncheon meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham) at a city hotel yesterday.

  • Bangladesh: Sajeeb Wazed Joy's speech on ICT

    The Potential and Challenges of Information Technology for the Future of Bangladesh

    As you may know, the Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006, sponsored by the World Economic Forum has been released. According to the report, Bangladesh is marginally improved but going backwards in terms of its ICT development. The report uses the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), covering total of 115 economies during the year 2005, to measure the degree of preparation of a nation or community to participate in and benefit from ICT developments.

  • Bangladesh: Submarine cable: A landmark in ICT sector

    The historic event that took place near the shore of the Bay of Bengal on 22 May will have a far-reaching effect on the progress and prosperity of Bangladesh. On that day Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia inaugurated the long awaited fibre optic submarine cable system at the landing station at Cox's Bazar and thus connected Bangladesh to the global information super highway. This event will remain as a land mark in the fields of economics and technology in Bangladesh. The ICT sector will get a boost as the capacity for data and information transfer will be much higher, the speed of transfer will be much faster, voice transfer will have much better quality, the internet and telephone charges will fall abruptly. As a result a host of possibilities for IT activities will open up in Bangladesh.

  • Bangladesh: Tap potentials of rural youths

    Rural people, especially the unemployed youth and women, should be considered assets in national development. The present government could decide as a policy priority to outsource functions such as digitisation of land records, data entry operations, collation of local data, and local resource mapping to the information kiosks run by self-help and community interest groups with the support of civil society organisations. Upazila and Union Parishad institutions could use connectivity to provide accountable and transparent local governance.

    Various government data of relevance to the public, including birth and death certificates, other registrations, and pension documentation, could also be made online to facilitate usage. Outsourcing from urban to rural Bangladesh would be a powerful method of bridging the rural-urban digital divide.

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