The government has decided to introduce a common design and layout for all its 25,000 websites to reduce confusion and searching hazards since every site is currently hosted and maintained individually.
Of these, 24,000 websites which host the government’s upazila and union departments will be brought under one platform to minimise hacking attempts and enable authorities to maintain the sites easily.
According to high officials of the ICT ministry, the newly designed government websites will be launched within the next three months.
“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 ministry, told the Dhaka Tribune recently.
He said the ministry had already started to finalise the design of the websites with all 25,000 having a similar home page view.
Currently, the ministries, divisions and other wings of the government has individual layouts for its respective websites which sometimes create 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.
Recently, the Cabinet Division had formed a seven-member committee on web portal management and the same committee would also coordinate with the ICT ministry on this project, the sources added.
Golam Mostafa, assistant system annalist of the Cabinet Division, said: “Every website will consist of different information, data, pictures and messages, ensuring its individuality but it will run under a common design.”
The committee had already completed the training of IT officials in 10 ministries and the rest would be trained within the next couple of months, the sources said.
Earlier on September, the ICT ministry established more than 24,000 websites, claiming it to be biggest web network of the world but they were unable to launch the sites formally as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not give a schedule for the inauguration programme.
However, the government this time wants to launch the sites with the new design through a gala programme.
