IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

In the present context of globalisation and development of information and communication technology, maintaining a website has become essential for every organisation. In our country, many people and organisations have developed their own websites to widen their areas of communication and carry all kinds of activities including personal contacts and businesses through the internet to make it timely and accurate. But unfortunately, the state organs remain behind due to not introducing e-governance properly.

Non-cooperation from some key government organs under different ministries in preparing and updating their respective websites has denied the government its entry into the era of e-governance.

The government organs include Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), National Board of Revenue (NBR), Economic Relations Division (ERD), Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD), Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and the Forest Department, which are neither maintaining nor updating their websites regularly, sources said.

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.

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.