Scale-up plans of Public Access Centre and challenges in Bangladesh in rural internet Presented By Mohammad Ashraful Amin National Consultant e-Service , a2i, PMO
Leapfrogging Digital Bangladesh Development
Key Initiatives Digital Center Digital Financial Inclusion Service Innovation Fund Innovation Fair Challenge Fund National Portal Online Dashboard Digital Land Services Key Initiatives Human Development Media Multimedia Classrooms Teachers’ Portal Digital Judiciary Education for Employment CRVS Service Process Simplification Information Repositories Open Government Data E-file Judicial Portal Muktopaath
Bangladesh Experience Services to the Citizens’ Doorsteps through Digital Centers Bangladesh Experience Education Police Welfare Transport Tax Electricity Environnent Municipal Body Revenue DC Office Joined-up government Improved service Digital Centre Time, cost & visit savings Connected Citizens One-Stop Shop
Developed Business Model Underserved communities have better and simplified access to public services 5,286 Digital Centre 84.3 M Services Provided Developed Business Model 2212 Agent Banking and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) among 2500 Digital Centres 97k Citizens Opened Bank Account Transaction – US$ 49 M Remittance - US$ 9.49 M US $ 8.3 M earning by Entreprenues. # of Financial Services introduced - 7 76.8 M beneficiaries received Services 4,554 UDCs 325 PDCs 407 CDCs 64 DESC Financial Services Data from Team
(All services in one address for entrepreneur) EkSheba (All services in one address for entrepreneur) “Virtual one stop service platform” of entrepreneurs for providing services ( Government & Private) ; 136+ ( Government & Private) services integrated and increasing; Rural e-Commerce Platform “EKSHOP” integrated; Real time reporting about services provided by entrepreneurs:
Scale- Up Plan
Scale- Up Plan
Underserved communities have better and simplified access to public services 70 TCV Studies Health service Financial Inclusion Education Agricultural service Assisted Rural e-Commerce Local Govt. Private & Public services from Digital Centre Livestock Land service Saved in 2016 Projection for 2023 996.79 M Man days US$ 1.51 B 394.42 M visit 7.56 B Man days US$ 11.51 B 2.99 B visit Data from Team
Alignment with Development Goals and Targets 7th Five Year Plan 12.3.5 ICT for greater transparency, good governance and service delivery 12.3.6 Pro- Citizen civil service 12.4.1 Strengthening the enabling environment through ICT infrastructure and service capacities Sustainable Development Goals
Visible Challenges Lack of adequate infrastructure facility; Ensuring high speed internet connectivity for exapnsion centres; Slow paced domestic transmission network; Insufficient broadband wireless access; Expensive 2G/3G wireless internet services from Telcos; Instability of wirless/broadband connectivity; Adequate domestic online contents and ICT services and increasing; Insufficient power supply;
Look Forward How can fundamental Infrastructure Development instead Ad- Hoc connectivity will be ensured; How digital centers' entrepreneurs will be facilitated as community broadband service provider by own or partnership? How low cost internet connectivity will be ensured for centers? How Public Internet Service Points/zones will be ensured? How prioritize on Wireless Data Services (4G/5G/LTE) will be done? What partnership with relevant national & International communities required? How security of transmission will be ensured?