Those are ‘digital natives’ – those who have born in the age of internet, ‘digital adaptors’ – those who have increasingly adopted themselves with internet usage and ‘digital outliers’ – who remain outside of the internet domain and are uninterested to use the internet.
He said bringing those “outliers” within the internet service realm is the “biggest challenge for us”.
Read more: Bangladesh targets three groups for e-services: Palak
We need to outwit the graft-taker, outsmart him. In fact, we should try to be one step ahead of him so we can beat him in his own game! The reason why I am suggesting such an unconventional, even a little surrealistic method is simple and easy to understand.
A little realised rule of thumb is making a cake-walk into our society: “If you can't resist or overpower the corrupt, join him.” In other words, give in to his pressure for bribe, otherwise your file will not move from his desk.
The government plans to deliver all digital services through mobile phone by 2021, but in reality, they have increased customs duty on mobile handsets in the four consecutive fiscal years including the proposed budget for 2017-18.
According to the country's seventh five-year plan, all e-governance services will be available on mobile platform. Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget presentation also reiterated the government's importance on digitisation.
'The bank and the Bangladesh government will work jointly to implement both the health sector and the government procurement standard development projects'
The World Bank (WB) has decided to provide $570 million to help improve the Bangaldesh’s health sector and upgrade the standard of procurement for different projects under the sector.
Read more: BD: World Bank to provide of $570m loan for health sector
The World Bank has signed $74m in two financing deals for Bangladesh to improve the country’s e-governance services and air quality.
A total of $29 million was allocated for the Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project, which will be spent to develop a shared technology infrastructure for government agencies. The money will go to improving efficiency, reducing IT risks and promoting e-government efforts.
Read more: Bangladesh gets $74m for e-governance, clean air from World Bank