IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

The target of establishing a Digital Bangladesh will remain 'illusive' if the government machinery is not properly digitised as felt by experts who consider e-governance as an integral part of digitisation. According to a government report as appeared in the press, more than 88 per cent of public offices have no manpower to deal with ICT (information and communication technology) operations and 70 per cent of the employees in government offices do not use computers. The situation is the worst in departments, corporations and commissions as 95 per cent of such offices have no ICT professionals who are needed to make e-governance initiatives successful.

In a sample survey conducted by the planning ministry, it was found that government offices have 28 personal computers for every 100 employees. Though a government project with the objectives has been implemented since 2003, lack of sincere efforts in the administration has kept the e-government status in a pitiable and poor shape. Successive governments have failed to give due recognition to ICT professionals in carrying forward any e-governance move; rather strangely non-professional experts are getting the privilege in ICT projects. The computer science and technology department of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has produced many qualified ICT experts in 25 years, but the policymakers did not keep track of them.

The unfortunate aspect is that most of such young ICT professionals had no alternative but to take up overseas jobs while others find berth in the expanding mobile phone providers in the country. However, there is realisation now in the administration and so a new project is underway to absorb ICT professionals for public offices. The Bangladesh Computer Council would be able to play a vital role for recruitment of ICT professionals in the public offices to promote digitisation.

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Quelle/Source: The New Nation, 30.09.2009

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