Scribd
Upload
13 views22 pages

ICT Policy

The National ICT Policy 2015 aims to enhance social equity, develop skilled human resources, and ensure cost-effective citizen services while supporting Bangladesh's goal of becoming a middle-income country. Key features include promoting universal access to ICT, improving education and research, generating employment, and strengthening exports. Challenges include ensuring power supply, building an inclusive information system, and promoting e-business and e-commerce.

Uploaded by

leon saifullah
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
13 views22 pages

ICT Policy

The National ICT Policy 2015 aims to enhance social equity, develop skilled human resources, and ensure cost-effective citizen services while supporting Bangladesh's goal of becoming a middle-income country. Key features include promoting universal access to ICT, improving education and research, generating employment, and strengthening exports. Challenges include ensuring power supply, building an inclusive information system, and promoting e-business and e-commerce.

Uploaded by

leon saifullah
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 22

National ICT Policy 2015:

Key features and


challenges

DHAKA Date: 16 May 2018


Preamble
 Rationale
 Equality of opportunity

Article:19. (1) The State shall endeavour to ensure equality of


opportunity to all citizens.

(2) The State shall adopt effective measures to remove social and
economic inequality between man and man and to ensure the
equitable distribution of wealth among citizens, and of opportunities in
order to attain a uniform level of economic development throughout
the Republic.
1
[(3)The State Shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity
and participation of women in all spheres of national life.] (Added by
the Constitution (Fifteenth Amendment) Act, 2011)
Preamble (Cont.)
 Present Context and Future Trends
Preamble (Cont.)
 Policy Structure and Conventions
Policies Related to Science and
Technology
 In 1997 the government of Bangladesh officially recognized that
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can make an
important development impact

 In 2002, the Ministry of Science and Technology was renamed as


the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication
Technology (MOICT)

 The existing science and technology policy of the country was


adopted 24 years ago, in 1986.

 The vision of the policy was to meet the basic needs of human
beings by harnessing the potential of science and technology .
ICT Policy of
Bangladesh

 The first ICT Policy of Bangladesh was


formulated in 2002

 The ICT Policy has been revised in 2008

 The revised ICT Policy has been adopted


by the government in April 2015

 The last revision was gazette at 05 Aug


2015
Vision of ICT Policy 2015
 Expand and diversify the use of ICTs to establish a
transparent, responsive and accountable government
 Develop skilled human resources
 Enhance social equity
 Ensure cost-effective delivery of citizen-services
through public-private partnerships
 Support the national goal of becoming a middle-income
country within ten years and join the ranks of the
developed countries of the world within thirty years.
Key feature of ICT Policy
2015:
The ICT Policy 2015 appropriately identified the objectives of ICT in development

Social Equity
Integrity
Universal Access
Education and Research
Employment Generation
Strengthening Exports
Supports to ICTs
Healthcare
Environment, Climate and Disaster Management

Productivity
Key feature of ICT
policy 2015: Social
equity
 Mainstream social advancement opportunities
for disadvantaged groups as an immediate
priority to minimize economic disparity and
bridge the digital divide for (a) lower income
groups, (b) ethnic minorities, (c) women, and (d)
persons with disabilities and special needs

 Facilitate citizens’ participation in local and


national government, and policy making as a
broad national agenda

 Provide incentives to the private sector and


NGO/CSO/CBOs to generate and share locally
relevant and local language digital content and
online services
 Bring into focus children's issues, including
protection of children from harmful digital
Key feature of ICT policy
2015: Integrity
Ensure the use of Bangla in all ICT activities

 Reduce harassment, time and cost to the public


and ensure transparency and accountability in
government service delivery by monitoring citizens'
charter and making service delivery results public

 Establish interconnectivity across government


offices for effective data sharing

 Build capacity of public functionaries and foster


leadership for electronic service delivery

 Mandate availability of all public information


through electronic means and ensure sustainability
of ICT-based citizens’ services delivery

 Introduce ICT-based monitoring of planning,


implementation and effectiveness of development
projects
Key feature of ICT policy 2015:
Universal Access

 Extend universal connectivity to all citizens


as a public service obligation within 5 years

 Extend internet backbone infrastructure to


all district headquarters immediately at the
same access cost as in the capital

 Extend Internet and IP telephony services


to all parts of the country within 5 years
through providing incentives as stipulated
in the national telecom policy

 Make IP-based telecommunications


ubiquitous and affordable by all through
aggressive adoption of NGN and license-
free regime
Key Feature of ICT policy
2015: Education and
Research
 Assess skills of ICT professionals and meet gaps with
targeted trainings.

 Encourage closer collaboration between academia and


industry.

 Extend the reach of ICT literacy throughout the country


by incorporating ICT courses in secondary education and
technical and vocational education.

 Enhance the quality and reach of education at all levels


with a special focus on Mathematics, Science and
English

 Ensure ICT Literacy for all in public service

 Boost use of ICT tools in all levels of education.

 Ensure that all universities provide global standard ICT


education.
Key feature of ICT policy
2015: Employment
Generation

 Provide incentives for investment in local


ICT industry

 Build institutional capacity for producing


greater number of IT professionals in line
with domestic and global demands for
knowledge workers

 Standardize skills for local ICT industry

 Facilitate global employment of skilled ICT


workforce

 Provide financial assistance to ICT


professionals for skills development
Key feature of ICT policy
2015: Strengthening Exports

 Develop strong marketing, promotion and


branding for Bangladeshi ICT products and
services in global markets

 Ensure access to finance for promising software


and ITES companies

 Develop and maintain reliable ICT infrastructure

 Provide incentives to increase export and create


industry friendly policy and enabling environment

 Foster innovation through research and


development to improve quality, process,
technology, domain, value chain and niche
markets
Key feature of ICT policy
2015: Supports to ICTs

 Ensure reliable and cost-effective power

 Create supportive legal framework for IPR


protection, online document sharing, transactions
and payments

 Establish a Government Interoperability


Framework to be adhered to by all government ICT
projects
 Promote the use of cost-effective, open source and
open architecture solutions
 Build ICT infrastructure facilities in educational
institutions

 Decentralize ICT growth outside the capital

 Improve education quality in IT, Mathematics and


English
 Improve Internet availability and reliability
Key feature of ICT policy
2015: Healthcare

 Improve management of healthcare


delivery system

 Improve community awareness and


access to health care facilities for all
including difficult to access areas,
with a special emphasis on child and
maternal health

 Ensure Quality Assurance of health


care services

 Enhance capacity of National Health


Service Delivery System
Feature of ICT policy 2015:
Environment, Climate and
Disaster Management

 Promote environmental preservation by


adopting environment-friendly green
technologies

 Promote environmental protection


through the use of ICT tools

 Protect citizens from natural disasters


through ICT-based disaster warning and
management technologies

 Ensure safe disposal of toxic wastes


resulting from use of ICTs

 Promote efficient relief management and


post disaster activities monitoring
 Key feature of ICT policy 2015:
Productivity

 Encourage maximum utilisation of ICT services


nationwide to boost productivity of small, medium and
micro enterprises and agriculture sector, and focus on
innovation and competitiveness

 Ensure dissemination and utilisation of latest know-


how and market information to increase production
capability and supply chain management of
agriculture through ICT applications

 Ensure better monitoring, skills gap determination,


appropriate training and modern enterprise operations
to enhance productivity of large enterprises by
encouraging immediate implementation of end to end
applications (ERP)

 Ensure sustainable productivity in the service sector


through increased automation of operations and
management information systems

 Encourage e-commerce, e-payments, and e-


transactions in general bringing in a new dimension of
productivity to the economy at the earliest
Institutional Arrangements

 Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology


 Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC)

 Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MoPT)


 Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)

 Support to ICT Task Force (SICT) Programme

 Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS)


 Information and Communication Technology Division
Challenges:
 Ensuring power supply
 Building inclusive information and knowledge system
 Intellectual Property Rights
 Absence of Universal access policy
 Building E-learning Infrastructure
 Digital Government
 Access to Government Information
 Online transaction and payment infrastructure
 Promotion of e-business and e-commerce
 Automation of financial industry
Digital Bangladesh and ICT Policy 2015

 ICT Policy 2015 has specific


direction and guidelines
reflecting most of the priorities
of the Digital Bangladesh agenda
of current government of
Bangladesh.
“There’s nothing wrong with reading a book
you love over and over.”
–Gail Carson
Levine

You might also like