“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.
“Especially, Sri Lanka’s ICT capacity building programme for public servants, use of local languages in e-government implementations and appointing a dedicated officer in each and every government department are best practices we also can apply here in Bangladeshi e-governance projects,” he said.
Mr. Taifur made his comments just after Sri Lankan official shared their experience on e-government implementations, especially with respect to challenges and best practices.
In his keynote address to the Bangladeshi policymakers, Mr. Athula Pushpakumara of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) stressed the need to ‘re-engineer’ the entire government process rather than simply automating the present inefficient public sector system.
“When you automate an inefficient system, the result is an equally inefficient but automated system. When we are looking at e-government, the first thing that we need to look at is re-engineering the process to make it efficient and then look at automation. This way the process would take more time, but we can be sure of achieving the desired goals,” he said in his presentation at the packed conference at the Chinese Friendship Conference Hall in Dhaka.
UNDP Bangladesh together with the National ICT Task Force and Software Association organized the annual ICT exhibition and national conference.
Autor: Irfan Nasaruulah
Quelle: Colombo Page, 02.12.2005
