e-Governance Initiatives in Bangladesh: Progress and Prospects

Among the political leadership of all complexions in Bangladesh, there has developed a sense of consensus as to building a knowledge-based society. A country-wide information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure has been and is being developed to ensure access to information by every citizen so as to facilitate empowerment of people and enhance democratic values and norms for sustainable economic development by using ICT-facilities. Currently, a good number of e-Governance initiatives are in place in Bangladesh. Among them, some have taken off nicely while some are still at the very initial stages. This paper is an attempt to collate the major e-Governance initiatives of Bangladesh and to look into their immediate and indented impact so as to have ideas as to their suitability as well as utility in the context of Bangladesh.