For the first time, a wing of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is going to appoint an agency for social media maintenance.
The agency will be tasked with maintaining a Facebook fan page, Twitter account and YouTube channel, all to be used to publicise the government’s achievements. This is the first time that any government office is hiring a professional agency for online publicity, said sources.
The Access to Information (A2I) programme, an UNDP and USAID supported project with its office at the PMO, recently published a circular to appoint an agency for a year under a project titled “E-service Delivery for Transparency and Responsiveness.”
Twenty-six tenders have already been submitted, and A2I will shortly scrutinise those to select an agency within two months, said Hasan Md Benaul Islam, a communication expert of the A2I Programme.
He said they wanted to appoint a professional organisation working in the area of digital media for promoting the government’s accomplishments.