“It is very clear that we can apply some of the key strategies already identified by Sri Lanka’s authorities in the e-government implementations,” S.A.S.M. Taifur, Project Director of the Bangladesh Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Task Force, told reporters just after the national conference on e-government at the SOFTEXPO 2005 in Dhaka.
Weiterlesen: Bangladesh to follow Sri Lanka's 'e-governance' model
Mentioning that open source technology is very much suitable for introducing e-governance in poor countries like Bangladesh, they said the government needs to adopt a policy right now to procure open source software in implementing e-government projects considering the cost effectiveness of this technology.
Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: Use of open source software in govt offices, e-govt projects suggested
The minister for posts and telecommunications, Aminul Haque, on Monday launched the e-governance application software developed by the Business Automation Limited.
The Business Automation also provided necessary hardware and network and trained concerned personnel for the project implemented with the technical and financial assistance of Support to ICT Task Force Programme, a government project to implement e-government in government offices.
Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: E-governance at telephone exchange in capital
Address of the website is www.forms.gov.bd.
Weiterlesen: Bangladesh: Govt goes online-PM opens CD, website of digitized forms
According to a recent study presented at a meeting of the executive committee of National Taskforce on Information and Communication Technologies (NTICT), only 28 per cent of government administrators can operate a computer, despite US$13.6 million spent to date on the national e-government project since 2002.