Developing a Model of E-governance for Urban and Rural Areas of Bangladesh

Several developing countries including Bangladesh are realizing the role ICT (Information & Communication Technology) can play in the governance sector, and are putting into practice innovative e-governance models that may be technologically simple but are drastically changing the way information is distributed in the society. This paper depicts and implements a model of e-governance for urban and rural areas in Bangladesh. The project deeply considered existing ICT infrastructure in Bangladesh and put effort to implement the model in a cost effective and flexible manner. A clear, comprehensive layout and network architecture for rural and city areas is given separately. We also described complementary tasks such as database implementation, system development, web related task etc. for e-governance. The main objective of the project is to implement e-governance in an easy and cost effective way to suit with existing ICT infrastructure in Bangladesh to provide better information and service delivery of government to the people.