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Published on June 23, 2014
He said this during the launching ceremony of Bangladesh National Portal today at Karabi Hall of Prime Minister’s Office.
The PM’s adviser said the current government in its previous term had established over 4,500 Union information and service centres and web portals in all the districts in just two years of its tenure ahead of the targeted three years.
He said, “The National Web Portal of Bangladesh having over 25,000 websites is now the biggest in the world as no other country has such number of websites in a public portal.”
Joy said that the main objective of the web portal is to remove digital divide in the country as well as to ensure that the common people are benefitted through this digital revolution.
“Our target was not to let it happen that only the rich would be benefitted through Digital Bangladesh while the poor and the rural people would be left out.”
This portal is a unique example of e-governance as it has connected 25,043 websites of government organisations to a same stint. These include 4,550 websites of unions, 14,640 websites of sub-districts, 4,032 websites of districts, 455 of divisions, 64 of district councils, 488 of sub-district councils, 55 of ministries and divisions, 345 of directorates and 414 of city corporations and municipalities.
This portal is developed by Access to Information (a2i) programme with the assistance of the UNDP and the USAID.
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