Digital Bangladesh And Good Governance

The world is becoming a Digital Planet. Almost every state is running to become a knowledge based society by 2021. Digital society focuses on a technology based society where information must be available to all classes of people. It is obviously a forward thinking one especially for a poverty ridden and developing country like Bangladesh. Each and every sector of a society should be interconnected through ICT. Connecting people and ensuring good governance is core prerequisite to digital Bangladesh. Good governance includes different indicators like accountability of the government, transparency of the government, effective parliament, effective democratic system, freedom of print and mass media, independence of the judiciary, rule of law, and access to information etc. Effective implementation of the above indicators can be possible when society gets adaptation with ICT. Information should be exposed to mass people that can only ensure true communication. Connecting people depends on open access of information.

Bangladesh is resounding with the target of achieving digital Bangladesh. It is truly our dream to see digital Bangladesh by the year 2021. To me education is the top most requirement of digital Bangladesh. In Bangladesh education rate is definitely low than other developed countries. Our government has taken different policies in order to provide light of education to every sphere of people in our society. English literacy rate is comparatively poorer that certainly deserves top priority to see our country digitalised.

Only few people of our country know how to use computer and the Internet. Our country is a rural based one. High digital distance exists between rural and urban areas. Internet facility is merely seen in some organisations in urban areas. Digital Bangladesh must ensure Internet facility to all organisations in our society so that people could do their daily activities like banking, shopping, paying income tax, electricity bill, water bill, paper bill etc via internet. Everyday activities need to be digitalised and technology driven. If people wants to know any information relating to any sector they just need computer and Internet. So, all information needs to be available on web-page. Thus good governance and e-governance can be ensured which is compulsory to achieve the millennium development goal.

Digitalisation with telecommunication sector must deserve appreciation as they are helping our country to adapt. Mobile phones are getting cheaper and easily accessible for mass people. In rural areas farmers can acquire agricultural information through mobile phones. Doctors used to prescribe patients through mobile phones. Banglalink and GP are providing these technologies driven facility to our people.

Information and communication technological sectors must be given most priority otherwise we won’t be able to attain our cherished ‘Digital Bangladesh’.

A very first step for ‘Digital Bangladesh’ would be to spread the ICT education trough out the country. We must build a Digital Bangladesh and establish a knowledge based society. Lets work for this achievement. Lets build Digital Bangladesh. Are You Ready?