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Friday, 6.02.2026
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The government is set to launch service and information centres in all union Parishads by December next aiming to materialise its vision for digital Bangladesh.

It will also start introducing Bangla 'unicode' in all ministries and conduct a digital innovative fair by December.

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) in a review meeting of 'digital Bangladesh initiatives' taken the decisions.

Read more: Bangladesh: Information centres at Union Parishads by Dec next

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.

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

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.

Read more: Bangladesh: E-voting trial begins in Chittagong

The government has launched an initiative for extending e-service to people at the upazila level under Access to Information (A2I) programme of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The people at the upazila level would get up-to-date information on the activities of various departments and ministries through the e-service programme, said field level expert of the A2I project Mostafizur Rahman.

About 22 ministries/departments have their offices at the upazila level and under the programme steps would be taken to provide information of those ministries and departments to the people through one-stop service center, he said.

Read more: Bangladesh: Govt to introduce e-service at upazila level

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said e-Health schemes should be focused on providing healthcare to general public rather than using technology in ways that would not be of any help to them.

Emphasis should be on ideas that would make healthcare more accessible to the general people above everything else, they added.

The roundtable on 'Future of e-Health in Bangladesh' was organised by Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) at its conference room in the city.

Read more: Bangladesh: 'Use e-Health for masses'

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