Dr Imran is one of the leaders of a project to build e-government capacity and knowledge in Bangladesh.
The project team has developed a five-year e-government strategy for Bangladesh. They have also produced an e-government management handbook for government officials, delivered training to more than 100 high-ranking and mid-ranking officials and developed a rigorous curriculum for e-government management to be run at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC). The group is also developing a text book that will be first of its kind for developing countries.
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Local newspaper The Daily Star reported Monday that these sites will be developed and hosted by the government under the National Portal Framework (NPF) in districts, subdistricts, divisions, ministries and directorates, according to Anir Chowdhury, policy adviser for Access to Information (A2I) at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
Scheduled to launch in July this year, the NPF is being developed both by the government and the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) to extend e-services and information to citizens, the report stated.
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Recently, he encountered some problems in his brinjal cultivation.
“I visited the Union Information Service Centre (UISC) in Mohajanpur looking for a remedy to my problem,” Billal said.
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.
"To achieve economic improvement by removing all these constraints the government has taken the plan to digitalise the country by 2021," a senior official of the ministry of information and communication technology (MICT) told the FE.
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