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Dienstag, 2.12.2025
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BD: Bangladesch / Bangladesh

  • Digital Bangladesh

    Each day for Bangladesh should be part of a well-crafted national strategy, but the point is, who is there to make this strategy? More pertinently, will the masses buy into this grandiose plan of action? It is hard to tell, but many efforts dot the Bangladeshi landscape for coming to a common platform on which to sketch our collective future.

    I despair of the fact that truth and justice seem to have fallen into a bad state in Bangladesh due to bitter political rivalry and ineffective judicial systems. Absence of good governance and lack of political will have played their nasty roles for sure.

  • Digital Bangladesh

    After the agricultural and industrial revolution, the new millennium has been celebrating another revolution which entirely different kind is taking place across the globe. It is nothing but Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The wave of the revaluation has also touched the developing countries like Bangladesh with massive changes.

    The Awami League led ruling government had pledged to turn the country as a Digital Bangladesh during there election campaign in last year. ICT is the main tool of the government to fulfill their commitment of changing the old days and bringing new in that place. They have lots of opportunities to do in this field.

  • Digital Bangladesh aims to create efficient citizens

    Digital Bangladesh aims to facilitate people's communication activities through email or cell phones. Internet, which is a global system of interconnected computer networks, is designed to make faster communication and receive any information instantly from hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (www). Before using the internet, people must have some knowledge in English, on computer operating system or cell phones and ability to get access to the Internet. People use information and communications technology to enrich their lives and realise their social, cultural and economic ambitions.

  • Digital Bangladesh aims to give the citizens a modern identity

    The Bangalee nation had a dream, which was conveyed by the greatest Bengali of all times — the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

    We achieved our independence through a war of liberation after a long stretch of movements and struggle in order to realize that dream.

    Half of that dream has now materialized, but our struggle for freedom or economic emancipation is yet to be crowned with success.

  • Digital Bangladesh Bank

    Bangladesh Bank (BB) has adopted advanced ICT to be digitised in all spheres of its functions including monetary policy, banking supervision and internal management. BB has already introduced e-commerce, e-banking, automated clearing house etc.; a historic move towards achieving higher productivity across all economic sectors including agriculture and SME through use of ICTs. Engineers could be pioneers innovating new applications of ICT, and reaching them to the doorstep of the common people.

    The universal role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is vital for socio-economic development of a developing country like Bangladesh. Availability of information helps increase productivity, ensures fair and competitive market and empowers marginal people. Digital technology makes doing things easily from any place -- using mobile phone as a medium of money transfer and payment of utility bills, for example.

  • Digital Bangladesh pledge rings again

    Govt purchases may go online

    Stakeholders of the ICT industry breathed a sigh of relief, as government high-ups yesterday reiterated their commitment to do whatever needed for the development of the sector.

    Two ministers and one state minister promised before the sector people to develop the industry by any means and execute their election pledge of creating a 'Digital Bangladesh'. The guests, attending the inauguration of the BASIS Softexpo-2009, lauded the announcement.

  • Digital Bangladesh: A grassroots approach - how the state can use technology to help its constituent

    The term e-governance is not new in Bangladesh. Since the 80s, we have been automating the functions of our government offices.

    Many government organisations boast success stories of automating internal processes such as human resource management and payroll processing, inventory management system, library management system, among several others.

    Millions of dollars of hardware was procured to set up server rooms, some of them state-of-the-art rivalling those in developed countries. Software has also added to the ICT arsenal used for automating our government business processes.

  • Digital Bangladesh: Goal or slogan?

    We shall turn our country into 'Digital Bangladesh' " has become a slogan of the present government. Since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that, everyone belonging to the grand alliance has been echoing the slogan, like in a chorus. As a result, it has spread to the remotest corners of Bangladesh.

    Does the general public understand the term "digital"? Here are some examples to show what ordinary people mean by digital. Last year, I went to a village mosque to offer Jumah prayers. While announcing the time of the Eid prayer, the imam of the mosque said: "The Eid prayer will be held at 8 in the morning according to the old time and at 9 according to the 'digital time.' "

  • Digital Bangladesh: Going beyond the rhetoric

    In the lead up to the 2008 election, Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia seemed to be on a race to promise a Digital Bangladesh to the citizens. Khaleda went on to promise the "delivery of a Digital Bangladesh" much before 2021, the AL-proposed date, as if the concept is something tangible like a bridge or a highway!

  • Digital Public Innovation Fair-2010 in Bangladesh

    In order to make the government policy, administration and service delivery more efficient, effective, transparent and accountable ,Information and communication technologies have proven to play an increasingly prominent role not only in developed parts of the world but also in developing countries. ICTs such as mobile phones, TV, radio in addition to computers and internet have been able to reach traditionally excluded communities, and allow a much larger participation in national decision making than had hitherto been possible. The Fair will take place during 4-6 March 2010.

    The vision Of “Digital Bangladesh” is unique as it proposes ICTs as a pro-poor tool. In regard to this vision, Access to Information Programme is an e-governance umbrella initiative which plans and coordinates the ongoing and future activities across various ministries and agencies of the government to utilize ICTs as a tool to make government services hassle-free, faster,cheaper, more inclusive and at citizens doorsteps.

  • Digital security certificates now in Bangladesh

    Bangladesh has entered into the digital era. Different government and non-government organisations are now eying to electronic money transaction and data transfer in a safer way. But the internet chaos ensues when websites are not encrypted with secure socket layer (SSL) technology -- the digital security.

    There are so many instances of being tapped in phone lines and have conversations on monitoring an extended period of time with no detection. The internet is no different. So, someone may tap and record the internet usage, capture passwords, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card information and confidential documents. Without encryption, the internet is an unusable resource for financial and data transaction.

  • Digitalising land registration in Bangladesh

    Finance Minister A M A Muhith said: "Our land registration system is at the core of corruption. Bribes are exchanged openly in the land registration offices. Digitalising such organisations is urgent because massive use of information technology can curb corruption and expedite development." He further said that the government had taken up the challenge to digitalise the land registration system, though the progress so far had not been remarkable. The finance minister came up with this observation while addressing as chief guest the inaugural ceremony of the four-day BCS-ICT World Fair-2010 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre recently. Finance Minister in the same function said that Bangladesh is a land of impossible attainments.

  • E-commerce in Bangladesh: Where are we headed?

    E-commerce involves buying and selling of products and services by businesses and consumers through an electronic medium. Broadly, e-commerce is classified into four categories: business to business or B2B (Cisco), business to consumer or B2C (Amazon), consumer to consumer or C2C (eBay) and Business-to-Government (B2G).

    Business-to-business e-commerce involves agreements between the businesses and businesses. Distribution management, inventory management, channel management, supplier management and payment management are some of the areas in which B2B applications are widely used. In Bangladesh, bgmea.com.bd, bizbangladesh.com are examples of B2B platforms.

  • e-Governance Discourse: Reality in Bangladesh

    Introduction: In 1999, during my way back to Bangladesh from the UK, the immigration officer at Heathrow while checking my passport looked at his computer screen and suddenly asked me “Did you lost your passport?... anyway, you got it afterward.” Instantly, I could not remember the event. However, in one or two minutes I could recall that once I put my passport in a bag inside the boot of my uncle’s car and later I forgot to collect it duly.

    After a few days, when I needed the passport, my memory completely betrayed me to locate the passport. In despair, I phoned the Home Office (immigration department) that I lost my passport. Luckily, within few days, my passport was discovered from the boot while the car was being cleaned. Accordingly, I informed the Home Office immigration department that my passport was found. The very objective of sharing my personal experience is just to shed light on how effective and efficient Information storing and retrieval systems could be implemented and operated by the government organ to deal with its client.

  • e-Government status in Bangladesh

    A policy document of the Ministry of Planning

    With the direction of the National Information Communication Technology (ICT) policy 2002 an ICT Task Force was formed with the objective to make use of ICT systems within the public administration, improve efficiency, ensure effective use of resources, enhance planning, raise the quality of services, promote civic engagement by enabling public interaction with government systems through entending public services to the remotest corner.

  • E-Parliament for Bangladesh

    E-Parliament means providing better service delivery of Parliaments to citizens of the respective country. For Bangladesh Parliament, ICT can be tool for greater transparency and accountability and a platform for public consultation and interaction with the citizens. A survey conducted by an international organisation about e-Parliaments and use of technology finds that Parliaments are increasingly using new technologies to reach people mostly in a passive way - making more information available in different formats. Of the 90 countries surveyed, 77 stated they use ICT in some way to improve their works. They found disparity between the work done in developing world and developed world, but the hunger and desire for using new technologies is very strong in most of the developing countries.

  • E-parliament for Bangladesh

    E-parliaments provide better service delivery of parliaments to citizens of their respective country. For the Bangladesh Parliament, ICT can be used as a tool for greater transparency and accountability, and a platform for public consultation and interaction with citizens. A survey conducted by an international organisation, about e-parliaments and use of technology, finds that parliaments are increasingly using new technologies to reach people mostly in a passive way -- making more information available in different formats. Of the 90 countries surveyed, 77 stated they use ICT in some way to improve their work. They found disparity between the work done in the developing world and the developed world, but the hunger and desire for using new technologies is very strong in most of the developing countries.

  • EEE DAY-2023: Sustainable Development towards Smart Bangladesh at Uttara University

    On December 1, the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at Uttara University organised a day-long event titled "EEE DAY-2023" with the motto "Sustainable Development towards Smart Bangladesh." The event was held at the Central Auditorium of Uttara University's state-of-the-art permanent campus.

    Prof. Dr Eaysmin Ara Lekha, the Vice-Chancellor of Uttara University, inaugurated the ceremony as the chief guest.

  • From Digital Bangladesh to Smart Bangladesh: Charting the path to an advanced nation

    According to the Information and Communication Technologies Division (ICTD), Smart Bangladesh will be built on four main pillars: Smart Citizens, Smart Government, Smart Economy, and Smart Society

    As Bangladesh transitions from the vision of a Digital Bangladesh to the ambitious goal of becoming a Smart Bangladesh by 2041, the nation stands on the cusp of a transformative journey. This evolution aims to leverage advanced technologies, foster innovation, and enhance connectivity to create a more inclusive and sustainable society.

  • Glasfaser für Bangladesch

    Heute an Unterseekabel angebunden

    Mit den Worten "Heute beginnen wir eine neue Reise, denn Bangladesch fährt auf den Informations-Superhighway" eröffnete Premierminister Khaleda Zia die neue Glasfaserleitung.

    Das Glas-Backbone mit einer Datentransferrate von zehn Gigabit/s erstreckt sich innerhalb von Bangladesch über 1.265 Kilometer. Bis jetzt waren die 155 Mbit/s des staatlichen "Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board" das höchste der Gefühle, ebenso viel schneller angebunden ist man nun international.

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