The government is going to launch a national portal today for around 25,000 of its websites, in a bid to reduce confusion and protect the sites from being hacked.
The portal would give a common design and layout to all the websites which are each currently being hosted and maintained individually.
Prime minister’s Information and Communication Technology Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy would formally inaugurate the portal at a ceremony at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), sources of the PMO said.
Access to Information (A2I) project under the PMO has claimed the portal would be the world’s largest national web portal.
The A2I developed the portal, also called National Portal or the NP, with the Information and Communication Division under Post, Telecommunication and Information Communication Ministry.
Sources said around 24,000 websites which host the government’s upazila and union departments; would be brought under one platform to minimise hacking attempts and enable authorities to maintain the sites easily.
The other websites from different ministries and their departments and wings will also be under this common platform.
“We want each and every government website to come under a common design which will be user-friendly and also reduce the unnecessary hazards,” Md Nazrul Islam Khan, secretary of the ICT Division, told the Dhaka Tribune.
Currently, the ministries, divisions and other wings of the government has individual layouts for their respective websites which sometimes creates confusion among users and disrupts smooth browsing of the sites.
Sources at the ministry said the new design would also be implemented on union to secretariat-level websites, bringing all the websites under a common platform.
In September 2013, the ICT Ministry set up more than 24,000 websites, with the claim that it was the world’s biggest national web network. However, they were unable to launch the sites formally as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not give a schedule for the inauguration programme, sources said.
The Cabinet Division has reportedly trained IT officials in every ministry for detailing the sites.