The government has launched a national portal for around 25,000 of its websites, in a bid to reduce confusion and protect the sites from being hacked.
Prime Minister’s Information and Communication Technology Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy formally inaugurated the portal in a ceremony at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Monday afternoon.
“We have the information that it is the largest web portal and there is no confusion about it,” Joy said.
Addressing the function as the chief guest, he said: "The country is now half way to becoming 'Digital Bangladesh' and we can cross the rest of the way before 2021.
“Not only a middle-income generating country, we want to be a modern and developed country and it will be possible in our lifetime,” he hoped.
The portal will give a common design and layout to all the websites which are each currently being hosted and maintained individually.
Access to Information (A2I) project under the PMO has developed the site which will now be maintained by respective ministries, divisions and wings of government offices.
For maintaining the web portal already 50,000 officials have been trained up.
Sources said around 24,000 websites which host the government’s upazila- and union-level departments would be brought under one platform to minimise hacking attempts and enable the authorities to maintain the sites easily.
The other websites from different ministries and their departments and wings will also be under this common platform.
Currently, the ministries, divisions and other wings of the government have individual layouts for their 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, bringing all the websites under a common platform.
