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Freitag, 22.11.2024
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  • Bangladesh: E-governance for good governance

    New theories and techniques are being evolved with the passage of time. E-governance is such an innovation, or rather eventuality with full of potentials. Many theories and techniques are hard to put in place everywhere owing to variations of societal settings and cultural norms. However, e-governance promises and seems to be the exception. Its acceptance is worldwide thanks to its in-built credentials. Thus, it can be safely remarked that this very phenomenon has come to stay and thrive.

  • Bangladesh: e-Governance for the people

    What is e-governance ? What are the benefits of e-governance? What can government do to make it work. Is it complementary to achieve goals of Digital Bangladesh-? These are questions which knock our imagination as we are on the road to 'Digital Bangladesh'.

    The public demand for online services and information has became a driving force to increase democratic participation and the developed world have already made a good start of e-governance to benefit their citizens. Developing countries have also drifting towards introducing e-governance to cope with the change Bangladesh could not be an exception to that.

  • Bangladesh: E-Governance in govt offices soon

    The offices of the Bangladesh Planning Commission Campus will be interconnected and then the connectivity will be extended to the important government offices.

    The ICT (Information Communication Technology) system will be built to automate some government process at the Planning Division, Economic Relations Division (ERD) and Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED).

  • Bangladesh: E-governance is service to all citizens

    The Principal Secretary to the Chief Adviser (CA) Ali Imam Majumder said e-governance should not be confined to a technology only. Rather it should be regarded as a service that can be provided to the citizens.

    He urged all concerned to focus on the hopes and aspiration of the people especially those who are poor and marginalised in conducting the activities of the e-governance cell.

  • Bangladesh: E-governance networking

    According to recent media reports, the government has initiated a move to bring under a computer networking system all offices of divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers. For the purpose, separate email addresses have been created for each official at the district and the upazila levels under division-wise email groups. With the implementation of the new system, electronic mails will replace the post in administrative offices down to upazila to expedite dispatch of official orders and get quick response from field level. The government, as part of the move, has decided to provide all deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers across the country with laptops to enable local administrators to accelerate their official communications with the ministries and all other tiers directly through the Internet.

  • Bangladesh: E-governance to help curb corruption

    Establishing e-governance in the country can help curb widespread corruption, speakers observed at a roundtable in Dhaka yesterday.

    At the roundtable styled 'Fight Against Corruption-Role of Information Technology' the speakers also said making available the details of all the activities of the ministries on internet can minimise ill practices.

  • Bangladesh: E-government can cut graft, up investment

    E-government can promote greater transparency in government activities, reduce the scope for corruption and attract investment, according to a study.

    As combating corruption is a top priority for all political parties, e-government can provide an effective tool in reducing corruption, the study said.

  • Bangladesh: e-GP to free public procurement from influence

    The government, under a broad-based reform programme, is carrying out a number of core tasks to make the public procurement system in Bangladesh well-functioning, transparent and accountable, according to official sources.

    Procurement or purchase of goods, works and services by any procuring entity (PE) using public funds is called public procurement.

  • Bangladesh: E-procurement system for transparency: Tamim

    Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Professor Dr M Tamim on Wednesday said the government would set up an e-procurement system to bring transparency and reduce corruption in handling public funds.

    "We will establish the e-governance in the procurement system to ensure transparency and accountability for using the public money," he said while speaking as the chief guest at the concluding session of a three-day international workshop at a city hotel.

  • Bangladesh: E-tender to be introduced soon to stop tender manipulation: PM

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday asked the Upazila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs) to work together with people's representatives, including Upazila chairmen, to ensure maximum welfare of the grassroots people, reports UNB.

    "No one in the world can do all the jobs alone. You (UNOs) have to work together with the Upazila chairmen and other people's representatives for ensuring people's welfare," she told them.

  • Bangladesh: E-tendering

    AT a time when the world is advancing fast by dint of technology, Bangladesh cannot stay behind and, therefore, the government has laid thrust on easy and quick delivery of public services.

    Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina deserves appreciation for declaring her government's vision for building a Digital Bangladesh by 2021. Nevertheless, the hurdles to achieving the goal are formidable.

  • Bangladesh: e-tendering by end of this year likely

    Planning Minister Air-Vice Marshal (Retd) AK Khandker on Sunday said the government is planning to introduce e-tendering by the end of this year and e-GP (electronic government procurement) in phases for making purchase accountable, dynamic and transparent.

    Digital signature is a basic requirement for e-GP, he said adding the government would also introduce e-signature and the process for that is going on.

    The Minister said this as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the workshop organized by the Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED).

  • Bangladesh: E-voting trial begins in Chittagong

    Trial of the country's first-ever electronic voting started on Friday in ward number 21 of Chittagong City Corporation.

    The two-day trial was organised for trouble-shooting before e-voting is formally introduced in the CCC elections scheduled for June 17.

    Votes will be cast through the electronic system at the 14 centres under ward number 21 in Jamalkhan area. In other wards, conventional system will be followed.

  • Bangladesh: EC Secretariat, Teletalk sign agreement

    The Election Commission Secretariat yesterday signed an agreement with mobile phone operator Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd to facilitate quick information for the people about the August 4 elections to four city corporations and nine municipalities.

    EC secretary M Humayun Kabir and Managing Director of Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd Mohammad Mujibur Rahman signed the agreement, on behalf of their respective sides, at the conference room of EC Secretariat.

  • Bangladesh: Empower poor through IT access: CA

    Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday called for empowering poor, disadvantaged and rural population through providing them with access to the information superhighway for building a prosperous Bangladesh.

    He made the call while formally declaring open a two-day launching programme of Mission 2011, organised by Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN) at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.

  • Bangladesh: Ensuring transparency and accountability

    Public-private partnership is expected to help develop sustainable and strategic planning for eGovernance.

    THE growing use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) through the assistance of informatics can help improve the quality of government services. It can also help institutionalise management systems that reduce the scope for rent-seeking activities.

  • Bangladesh: Exporters get e-access to buyers

    From now on, the country's exporters don't have to wait for long to know about the detailed queries from the importers' end, instead they can go to Export Promotion Bureau to contact buyers directly through video conferencing.

    Exporters have to spend only Tk 30 for an hour video conferencing and Tk 1,000 for annual membership to be in regular contact with their potential buyers, said Ashraf Momtaz, official of the Trade Information Centre of Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).

  • Bangladesh: Facilitating progress in IT sector

    A previous government did acquire 230 acres of lands at Kaliakair near Dhaka to set up an information technology (IT) park. It was to give this sector a big leap forward. The park was to be built with uninterrupted power supply and high speed Internet connectivity round the clock among other indispensables for such an establishment. Although about a decade has passed since the acquisition of land, actual activities to get the park going has progressed very little. The immediate past caretaker government allocated the pittance of taka 60 million for the development of the park. But that was spent in only erecting a boundary wall around the site.

  • Bangladesh: Getting more from Internet

    Internet access still remains far below demand in Bangladesh. The challenge is to much widen access among users who would make best use of it. For Bangladesh, the priority should be to provide Internet access to academic institutions and intellectual communities. Having an Internet account is the primary thing, but not all. Using the Internet for productive purposes and real benefits is the main issue. The high service charged by the providers, a weak telecommunication system, deficient government policies and low buying power of potential clients are major barriers.

  • Bangladesh: Gov't to introduce e-governance to make its functions transparent

    The government has taken a fresh move to establish e-governance in its routine functions aiming to reduce operational costs and also make the functions more transparent and smooth.

    The latest move will also serve as a tool to enhance productivity and improve the quality of government services.

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