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Dienstag, 2.12.2025
Transforming Government since 2001

BD: Bangladesch / Bangladesh

  • BD: Facilitating public delivery through e-governance

    Good governance is a recent phenomenon which draws upon the concepts from several disciplines such as politics, economics, public administration, law and order and so on. In Bangladesh as in elsewhere, governance either good or bad has become a matter of frequent discussions. It is apparent that traditional government structures and systems of Bangladesh are no longer befitting enough to meet the demands of rising citizen-aspirations and challenges emerging from a host of factors. As a result, the role of the government accepted earlier as the 'sole provider' is being questioned.

  • BD: First nat’l cyber drill brings strange results

    Three law enforcement, security orgs score zero; organisers say they ‘observed’, didn’t participate

    The first national level cyber-security drill, organised recently by a government agency and participated by 35 private and public institutions, has produced some rather quizzical results.

    The government's e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) hosted the drill -- held online remotely -- for 20 banks and 15 non-banking financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, and private entities on October 22. Each organisation was given six problems and a stipulated time to come up with solutions.

  • BD: Foreign investors to receive better services

    The government has started a process to provide e-services in issuance of visas and work permits to the foreign investors aiming to woo foreign investment.

    To this effect, Board of Investment (BoI) has adopted a pilot project in November 2014 to execute the services and got a satisfactory response from the investors.

    Consultant to the BoI of the e-services, Md Sirajul Islam disclosed this while giving a presentation on the service at the annual general meeting of France-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFB) Monday.

  • BD: Good governance for development

    A dynamic, sustainable, influential and truly representative government can deliver good governance for its citizens. Improving governance in a country is not a matter of choice - it is a necessity for sustainable development. It is the foundation upon which a country's future is built. This is also true for governments, companies, trade unions, and employers' organisations at the same time. Having sound governance indicates that a country has the necessary institutions and tools to ensure credibility, integrity and authority in forming rules, making decisions, and developing programmes and policies suiting to its needs.

    Good governance is about the processes for making and implementing decisions. It's not about making 'correct' decisions, but about the best possible process for making those decisions. Good decision-making processes and, therefore, good governance, share several characteristics. They have a positive effect on various aspects of local government including consultation policies and practices, meeting procedures, service-quality protocols, conduct of councillors and officers, role clarification and good working relationship.

  • BD: Govt firm to ensure public procurement standard: Prime Minister

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday categorically said the government is committed to ensure the standard of public procurement as public money is used for such procurement.

    “Around 75 percent money of the annual development program is used for public procurement. People of the country are the source of all these money. The government is accountable to the people for ensuring standard of the procured goods and service and usage of the public money,” she said.

    The prime minister said this while inaugurating the electronic government procurement (e-GP) at Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC).

    Planning Minister AK Khandker, State Minister for Science and ICT Yeafesh Osman and World Bank Country Director Ellen Goldstein spoke at the function.

  • BD: Govt launches three online platforms

    Three digital one-stop platforms -- Eksheba, Ekpay and Ekshop -- to enable people to get different government services and pay utility bills and fees were launched yesterday.

    Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy launched the platforms in a ceremony organised by the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) division at the ICT Tower in Dhaka.

    The platforms were developed by the Access to Information (a2i) programme under the ICT division.

  • BD: Govt may involve private sector in issuing Taxpayers Identification Number

    The government is set to involve the private sector in issuing the TIN (Taxpayers Identification Number).

    Furthermore, the mandatory provision for payment of Tk 1000 as advance tax is likely to be withdrawn from fiscal 2011-12 in order to reduce the hassle of the taxpayers at the time of obtaining the TIN.

    The announcement to this effect is expected to be made through the budget for the upcoming fiscal that would be placed before parliament on June 9 next.

    Harassment in issuance of TIN is considered one of the major hurdles to raising country's poor tax-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio.

  • BD: Govt plans to set up high capacity National Data Centre

    Government is planning to set up a new high capacity National Data Centre (NDC) through Public Private Partnership to provide a reliable infrastructure for IT operations and offer a secure environment aimed at minimising the chance of security breach, officials said.

    They said the 13-member committee headed by Additional Secretary of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Kamal Uddin Ahmed formed on September 2 has prepared a report after reviewing the demand analysis for next 5 years, management arrangement and mode of operation on setting up an NDC.

  • BD: Govt starts collecting ideas for mobile apps development

    The government has begun collecting ideas regarding public services from its directorates and departments to develop mobile applications (apps) to provide such services to people, official sources said.

    The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has already received 20 ideas about women development issues, including healthcare tips, poultry farming for women and safety issues, from the Department of Women Affairs at a function last week.

  • BD: Govt strides in forming interoperable digital framework for transforming governance

    Interim government has stridden in building a robust interoperable framework to unify fragmented digital systems in shaping governance in last one year after the mass uprising that redefined Bangladesh's political trajectory, ending Hasina's almost 16 years autocratic rule.

    Chief Adviser's Special Assistant on the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb said that the initiative with the vision of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is transforming governance enabling seamless data exchange, coordinated service delivery, and data-driven decision-making across ministries and agencies.

  • BD: Govt targets population database

    The government plans to create a central digital database with basic information on all citizens so they don't have to provide the same information for receiving government services.

    A number of citizen databases including the national voter list have already been prepared. But citizens still have to produce the same basic information already stored on those databases every time they seek any government services. Besides, it requires a lot of paperwork and time to process the applications for government services.

  • BD: Govt to develop 30,000 IT persons

    The government will develop a pool of 30,000 international standard IT (Information Technology) professionals under a World Bank funded project.

    The project called “Leveraging ICT: Growth, Employment and Governance”, under the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), will create 30,000 direct employment and 120,000 indirect employment in the country within five years, ICT Secretary Nazrul Islam Khan said at a seminar yesterday.

  • BD: Govt to formulate e-service regulations

    The government is going to introduce e-service regulations soon keeping a provision to set up an e-service authority to create disciplined environment in electronic service (e-service) delivery and ensure quality service to the people, said a top official of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.

    He said the draft regulations titled “e-Service Regulations 2013” which is now under process to launch anytime, has been prepared as per article 88 of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Act 2006.

  • BD: Govt to make public service delivery easier

    The government has developed a model to simplify the existing process to deliver public services to the citizens aimed at saving their time, money and labour.

    Access to Information (a2i) Programme has developed the model titled Service Process Simplification (SPS)' following the internationally recognized Business Process Reengineering (BPR) model to change the conventional system to deliver public services to citizens.

    Making the disclosure at the concluding day session of a five-day training programme on 'Managing Technology for eGovernment' in the city on Thursday, a2i Project Director Kabir Bin Anwar said, "Initially, we're going to simplify the process to grant pension for the primary school teachers who have to frequently visit the department concerned and spend money to get pension."

  • BD: Govt wants to transform young generation into ICT skilled human resources: PM

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday said her government wants to transform the country's young generation into human resources empowered with information technology (IT) skills to meet the huge demand of such manpower, reports BSS.

    "We want to turn the country's young generation into human resources as there is a huge demand of such manpower at home and abroad," she said, adding it would contribute significantly to the export of human resources.

    While inaugurating the 5th e-Asia, the premiere ICT event of Asia, the Prime Minister also said 20,000 more multimedia classrooms will be set up in the country by 2012 in line with the present government's 'Digital Bangladesh' programme.

  • BD: Govt working for building Rajshahi as smart city: Palak

    State minister for post, telecommunication and information and communication technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, MP, on Thursday said that the government had been working to build Rajshahi as modern, time-fitting and smart city.

    ‘Around a decade ago, we had many dreams but now we see that many of those dreams have been materialised. Preliminary, it was very challenging to finish the works but as a result of farsighted development policies of the government we have achieved success,’ he added.

  • BD: Greater access to ICT

    Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu's eagerness to bring down the country's internet cost at the grass-roots level subscribers certainly deserves appreciation. The minister's interest is to see that access to the information and communication facilities becomes wider to the extent where the digital divide between the rich and the poor can effectively be dismantled. Indeed, this is not just a pious wish but one that is most practical in the interest of the country. Malaysia, a country with comparable development indices until the 70's of the past century, had experienced a phenomenal rise with Mahathir bin Mohamad, the country's fourth prime minister, opening its door to the modern information superhighway. Bangladesh missed a chance of getting connected with the rest of the world when an elected government refused to accept the offer of free connection with submarine cable although later that opportunity was availed of, but at a cost.

  • BD: High value use of ICT, system automation still slow

    High value use of information and communication technology (ICT) and system automation both in the public and private sectors of the country is still slow.

    Apart from several positive steps taken by the ICT Ministry, most of the automation projects are limited to purchasing computer hardware, opening websites and training centres, ICT professionals alleged.

    e-government is yet to be a reality while e-commerce and e-services have been developed by the private sector at their own initiative forced by accelerating global competition.

  • BD: Home ministry moves to help service seekers

    All files to be digitised, people can know status of every file

    The home ministry is going high-tech to rid itself of the bureaucratic tangle that often bogs it down and to let people know about the status of their files or services they sought from the ministry.

    The ministry is going to digitise its everyday functioning in order to move towards e-governance. It believes this step would rid the ministry of the red tape menace and let it be more transparent to people.

  • BD: ICT experts for adopting some key elements to authenticate online based activities

    Experts on ICT at a workshop underscored the need for adopting some key elements to ensure, secure and authenticate the online based activities in the country.

    They discussed about digital signature, digital certificate and public-key infrastructure (PKI) which are key elements for promoting e-procurement, e-transaction, e-commerce, online income tax return and confidential data transfer.

    Controller of Certifying Authority arranged the workshop on e-Governance and Digital Signiture at the auditorium of Bangladesh Computer Council on Monday. The workshop was divided into two parts-inaugural and technical.

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