Difficulties and Possibilities of Implementing E-governance in Bangladesh: A Critical Assessment for Justifiable Progress

Abstract

E-governance is a much talk issue in the present days or even last two decade as a policy to removing corruption, ensuing involvement of mass people, providing eminence and smooth service at minimum costs, ensuring transparent and pro-people administration, improve government efficiency and better service and also for the accountability of government. Though, Bangladesh government took the initiative to appliance e-governance for last two decades but the implementation of e-Governance in Bangladesh is not up to the a remarkable till today and the government is not getting the full benefits of e-Governance yet for many reasons.This paper attempts to discover the activities and achievements of e-governance in Bangladesh as well as identify the obstacles and also propose some counteractive actions to implement e-governance. The observation result indicates that the main obstacles arise from the government policy, inadequate skilled and well-trained human resource, insufficient fund, lack of strategic plan, social and educational background of the nation, and many more. But the situation can be changed by taking necessary steps like political consensus, development of human resource, ICT penetration, and taking proper long-term plan implementing e-government in Bangladesh. After this, the paper suggests some ways to overcome the present situation and bringing it in the expected level of the implementation of e-governance in Bangladesh.

Keywords: E-governance, SMART Governance, Good governance, ICT, Bangladesh.