Introduction with Digital Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Author's name:
Access to Information Programme Prime Minister's Office
Digital
Bangladesh
Concept Note
Access to Information Programme
Prime Minister’s Office
5/11/2009
DIGITAL BANGLADESH
BA C K GR O U N D
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are recognized as a powerful tool for socio-economic development. With appropriate policies, supplemented by realistic strategies, ICTs are known to have brought tremendous welfare to people in terms of better access to information, job creation, and enhanced public services through efficient governance and diversification of economic opportunities.
Today, the adaptation and usage of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly being linked to the national economic development and subsequent human development for the countries of the world. Countries are using ICTs to participate in the international economy, to exploit emerging technologies for the betterment of their citizens, to modernize institutions and markets. Bangladesh, like most developing countries, recognizes the potential of ICTs as an unprecedented lever for economic emancipation as well as an enabler for poverty reduction and human development – both of which are of equal importance.
E A R L Y E F F O R T S : I CT AS A S E C T O R
The realization that ICTs can be an important enabler for Bangladesh’s development is not new. The early efforts in this regard were directed towards developing ICT as an export sector and a potential area of employment generation for ICT graduates. As early as 1991, the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Trade Centre (ITC) undertook an initiative to explore market potential of ICTs. Through a series of meetings and seminars, the key issues were identified and corrective measures were suggested. Another project of Ministry of Science and Technology with support from UNDP and United Nations
Author's name:
Access to Information Programme Prime Minister's Office
Digital
Bangladesh
Concept Note
Access to Information Programme
Prime Minister’s Office
5/11/2009
DIGITAL BANGLADESH
BA C K GR O U N D
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are recognized as a powerful tool for socio-economic development. With appropriate policies, supplemented by realistic strategies, ICTs are known to have brought tremendous welfare to people in terms of better access to information, job creation, and enhanced public services through efficient governance and diversification of economic opportunities.
Today, the adaptation and usage of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly being linked to the national economic development and subsequent human development for the countries of the world. Countries are using ICTs to participate in the international economy, to exploit emerging technologies for the betterment of their citizens, to modernize institutions and markets. Bangladesh, like most developing countries, recognizes the potential of ICTs as an unprecedented lever for economic emancipation as well as an enabler for poverty reduction and human development – both of which are of equal importance.
E A R L Y E F F O R T S : I CT AS A S E C T O R
The realization that ICTs can be an important enabler for Bangladesh’s development is not new. The early efforts in this regard were directed towards developing ICT as an export sector and a potential area of employment generation for ICT graduates. As early as 1991, the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Trade Centre (ITC) undertook an initiative to explore market potential of ICTs. Through a series of meetings and seminars, the key issues were identified and corrective measures were suggested. Another project of Ministry of Science and Technology with support from UNDP and United Nations