1. 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

2. Leapfrogging Digital Bangladesh Development

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. (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:

9. Scale- Up Plan

10. Scale- Up Plan

11. 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
M Man days
US$ 1.51 B
M visit
7.56 B Man days
US$ B
2.99 B visit
Data from Team

12. Alignment with Development Goals and Targets
7th Five Year Plan
ICT for greater transparency, good governance and service delivery
Pro- Citizen civil service
Strengthening the enabling environment through ICT infrastructure and service capacities
Sustainable Development Goals

13. 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;

14. 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?