Here you will find links to most of the country specific information provided by this site regarding Bangladesh. You may also want to do a search by clicking on "ICT search" in the sidebar, or a search in one of our databases. Note that most of the projects have a regional impact and therefore are not necessarily listed here.

Information about Bangladesh

• Ministry of Education: Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
• General Objectives of Education for Bangladesh
• Bangladesh: Report on ICT Use in Education
• ICT in Education for Bangladesh Policy Workshop
• Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Bangladesh
• Ministry of Science and ICT in Education

Projects

• Current Status and Prospects for ICT in Bangladesh
  The e-learning is widely used in most of the developed countries to promote distance education (DE) and life-long learning. It can be defined as an innovative approach for delivering electronically mediated, well-designed, learner-centered, and interactive learning environments to anyone, anyplace, anytime by utilizing the internet and digital technologies in concern with instructional design principles.
  
  
• Bangladesh is going to formulate ICT in Education Masterplan
  Bangladesh is moving one step ahead in making digital Bangladesh – master plan for ICT in education is going to be prepared soon. The government, stakeholders and development partners began a journey of formulating the ICT in Education Master Plan of Bangladesh through the first step- the Capacity Building Workshop on Using the ICT in Education Toolkit for Policymakers, Planners and Practitioners, started on 27th and will finish on 30 April 2009.
  
  
• Improving Management and Delivery of Technical and Vocational Education Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) is concerned with the preparation of learners for employment, through the provision of knowledge, skills and attitudes desirable in the world of work. With our working world now being permeated with ICT, it is logical that TVE should include training in ICT applications.
  
  
• ICTs for the Promotion of Literacy, especially in E-9 Countries
  According to the EFA Monitoring Report 2002, the greatest EFA challenge lies in South Asia. A wide range of initiatives have emerged to address this, including a cross-cutting project “ICTs for the promotion of literacy, especially in E-9 countries.”

Further resources

• ICT for Development Observatory: UNDP 
  The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $21.2 million for the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal by enhancing the availability of affordable broadband Internet connections, skilled manpower and local content and Internet applications in line with efforts to promote inclusive growth and reduce poverty.
  
  
• Distance education in the E9 countries
  In 1993, the world's nine high-population countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and Pakistan) committed themselves to using distance education as one means of addressing some of their needs in basic education. This paper reports their progress.
  
  
• ASPBAE Research on ICT in Bangladesh
  The challenge Bangladesh faces is how to become a learning society and to ensure that its citizens are equipped with the knowledge, skills and qualifications on information and communication technology (ICT) they will need in the next century. ICT revolution imposes particular challenges on education systems in Bangladesh.
  
  
• ICT based education- Bangladesh Perspective  2008
  Question arises, in a country like Bangladesh where the number of students in each year is increasing more than the number the universities can accommodate, how ICT could help to provide education to this growing number of students.