Dhaka: Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser (CA), has affirmed the Ministry of Information and Technology’s commitment to delivering smooth and efficient services to citizens through digital governance and optimal use of resources to bolster administration. He articulated these goals while serving as the chief guest at a view-exchange meeting with officials from the Postal Department, BTCL, BCC, Teletalk, and the ICT Division held at the Circuit House conference room.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Taiyeb emphasized the government’s efforts to make services readily accessible online, enabling citizens both domestically and internationally to avail themselves of government services from their homes. Although not all services have been integrated into the National Single Window, considerable advancement is being achieved in linking services through API integrations. Additionally, the government is placing a strong emphasis on data security and addressing related issues to create a secure ecosystem for data operations and to resolve data-quality problems using digital tools.
Taiyeb noted that despite the country having a relatively small number of IT professionals, there are approximately 500 seasoned IT engineers. He remarked on international practices, stating that companies can evolve into billion-dollar enterprises with as few as 50 engineers. However, he acknowledged that due to limited training and experience within the country, reaching such levels of success is currently unattainable.
Furthermore, Taiyeb highlighted ongoing legal reforms for data governance, which are progressing with guidance and support from the World Bank. The ministry is actively coordinating services across governmental and private sectors to establish National EPR, national connectivity, and a National Service Bus. He also underscored plans to adopt a fibre-optic strategy, focusing on training programs, legal reforms, postal services upgrades, ICT and BTCL cooperation, CLTP activities, and the transition to digital addressing in the postal department.
In discussing Britain’s coded addressing system, Taiyeb pointed out that such street-coding simplifies locating addresses, noting that implementing a coded addressing system through postal digital services is challenging yet achievable. Additional Deputy Commissioner (General) Md Sharif Uddin presided over the meeting, which included participation from Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education and ICT) Pathan Md. Saiduzzaman and officials from the Postal Department, BTCL, BCC, Teletalk, and the ICT Division.