Publishing Bangladesh Government Information via the Web

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

[from developmentgateway.org]


Publishing Bangladesh Government Information via the Web

URL: 	http://www.egov4dev.org/banglaweb.htm

Description: 	As a part of introducing e-governance, the Ministry of 
Communication in Bangladesh launched four websites of its major 
departments to enable citizen access to government information. The 
websites provide information in English about the organisation, 
personnel and activities of the agencies. The Roads and Highways 
Department (RHD) website is the most advanced in terms of 
transparency, and has started to move beyond the simple publication 
of basic information. It provides details of employment vacancies – 
information not easily available in one place for other government 
departments. It also contains details of planned road projects for 
the year ahead sufficient to enable vendors and contractors to 
identify major opportunities. It goes beyond just the basics of 
publication by opening up some of the internal departmental processes 
to public scrutiny. Project information is updated on a monthly basis 
to detail progress on all 182 infrastructural projects.