National Portal (Reaching the information-have-nots through National Portal)

Details of the organization
Prime Minister's Office
Bangladesh
http://www.pmo.gov.bd
Governments
  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
National Portal (Reaching the information-have-nots through National Portal)
NP
The National Portal is a whole-of-government initiative consisting of over 25,000 websites designed to reach the entire citizenry, especially the information have-nots. This portal has grown to generate an average of 1 million hits per day. The single architecture, look and feel and the use of vernacular make information provision by government officials extraordinarily simple and seamless, lowering the technology bar. A crowdsourcing approach was employed to equip 70,000 government officials to populate and update the content. The massive portal deployment was supplemented by establishing over 5000 ICT access centers across the country and formulating/ reforming necessary policies.
http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd
National implementation: Bangladesh
Ongoing from 10/12/2007 to 30/06/2016
Cabinet Division, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, UNDP, USAID, All Ministries of Government.

WSIS information
* Access to information and knowledge
  • Goal 1: Eradicate poverty and hunger
  • Goal 3: Promote gender equality & empower women
  • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
  • Project
  • Website
  • Database