This is about the application of Management Information system on Information Technology to make the 7th Five Year Plan successful and achieve the vision 21 appropriately. Which is set through the Digital Bangladesh by 2021 challenge.

1. Juhair Anjum
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2. Digital Bangladesh
and application of
MIS in IT

3. Digital Bangladesh is a wonderful vision that is dreamt by the
government and the literate class for the technological
development of Bangladesh. Digitalization has become a
buzzword in the new era of information technology The
ambitious dream for a Digital Bangladesh will remain a
dream if the government can not equip the people with the
technology needed for establishing the digital era.
Digital Bangladesh

4. Management Information Systems (MIS) is the study
of people, technology, and organizations. Everyone
who works in business, from someone who pays the
bills to the person who hires and fires, uses
information systems. For example,“a supermarket
could use a computer database to keep track of
which products sell best. And a music store could
use a database to sell CDs over the Internet”.
Management Information Systems

5. Information Technology
Information technology (IT) is the use of any
computers, storage, networking and other physical
devices, infrastructure and processes to create,
process, store, secure and exchange all forms of
electronic data.

6. Digital Bangladesh by 2021
“Digital Bangladesh” is an integral part of the government’s Vision
2021—which promises a prosperous and equitable middle-income
Bangladesh by its golden jubilee of independence The Digital
Bangladesh vision, arguably, runs parallel to the Information Society
vision advocated by the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
The Honorable Finance Minister of Bangladesh elaborated on the
concept in his budget 2009-10 speech as a socio-economic
transformation process, enabled by information and communication
technologies (ICTs)

7. Present Status of Non-performing Loans:
The most important indicator intended to identify the asset
quality in the loan portfolio is the ratio of gross non-performing
loans (NPLs) to total loans. In 2012 Foreign Commercial
Banks(FCBs) have the lowest and State owned Development
Financial Institutions (DFIs)have the highest ratio of gross NPLs
to total loans. State owned commercial banks (SCBs)had a gross
NPLs to total loans of 23.9 percent, whereas Private Commercial
Banks(PCBs), FCBs , and DFIs, had ratios of 4.6,3.5 and 26.8
percent respectively at the end of December 2014.

8. Digital Bangladesh for the 7th Five Year Plan (7FYP)
General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning
Commission is in the process of preparing the 7th Five Year
Plan (2015-16 to 2019-20).
• Improving Access of the Poor to Financial Services
• Development of SME in Bangladesh
• Strategy for Education and Training Final Version
• Strategy for Tourism Development
• Mobilizing Foreign Resources
• Export Diversification
• Financial Market Developments and Challenges in
Bangladesh
• Strategy for Infrastructure Development
• Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
• Agriculture Sector Development Strategy

9. Bangladesh policies and regulatory framework
1. ICT Policy 2009
2. 2 Right to Information Act 2009
3. 3 Perspective Plan
4. ICT Act 2013 (amended)
5. Strategic Priorities of Digital Bangladesh
6. Cyber Security Policy 2010
7. Rural Connectivity Policy Guideline 2010
8. Proactive Information Disclosure Guidelines 2014

10. Objectives and methodology
It is to be pointed out that for realization of Digital
Bangladesh, a Perspective Plan has been
formulated . It is aimed at informing the
preparation of the Digital Bangladesh agendas for
the upcoming 7FYP through conducting a review
of the achievements and setbacks with regards to
the 6FYP. ED, 2012)

11. ICT and Economic Growth
Despite the absence of quantitative assessment ( iGDP
for Bangladesh) of contribution of digital economy to
Bangladesh’s GDP, there is a growing perception that
progress is being made to meet the e-business objective
of 6FYP to enable businesses, irrespective of their size,
to avail ICT for production and to gain market access
domestically and internationally.

12. Online transaction and payment infrastructure
Usage of ICT in e-transactions, e-commerce and e-
procurement have been made possible through the
amended ICT Act 2009. As noted in the preceding section,
Bangladesh Bank has already inaugurated NPS to support
online transactions.

13. Promotion of e-business and commerce
The capacity of local ICT industry plays an important role to
empower businesses and citizens. To support the
development of the ICT industry, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park
Act was passed in 2010. Subsequently, Bangladesh Hi-Tech
Park Authority (BHTPA) was established in 2010.

14. Agendas for 7FYP
IT/ITES industry in Bangladesh has gained prominence in recent
times. Nevertheless, measures need to be adopted to capitalize
its growing share in global outsourcing business, which is
becoming the largest employer of educated youth. Although a
significant number of educated and qualified entrepreneurs
have started ICT ventures during the last couple of decades,
most are trapped in the ‘small size-low growth’ situation
because of fund constraints.

15. Access to finance
Bangladesh Bank and Ministry of Finance should undertake
specialized program for enabling banking and financial
institutions to provide finance to IT and The IT component
of the government’s Equity Entrepreneurship Fund (EEF)
can be amended for easing access to capital.

16. High-tech Park
The government in collaboration with development
partners will build High-tech Park with complete facilities.
Upon successful piloting, the scale up may require a
remote facility like Kali akair.

17. PPP and local ownership
All ministries and various government agencies could
identify projects where ICTs can be mainstreamed as well as
projects related to building ICT infrastructure for
implementation where Bangladeshi companies will be given
preference.

18. A branding strategy
The Ministry of Commerce/Ministry of ICT in
collaboration with all ICT-related business associations
can consider developing a 10-year master plan for
promoting country brand, including specific actions
related to inclusion of Bangladesh in globally reputed
outsourcing ranking list.

19. Human resource development
A long term plan can be undertaken so that
current supply of 5,000 yearly IT graduates
can be d More industry involvement will be
ensured during academic programs. oubled in
next 2/3 years.

20. ICT and Education
The 6FYP envisaged restructuring the education system to
make it more attuned with the technologically evolving
global landscape. the first target has been met, significant
progress has been registered with regard to the latter.

21. Building e-learning infrastructure
The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) has set up computer
labs in 3,544 educational institutions in order to expand ICT
education . A model is being implemented meeting two
interrelated objectives:
(a) creation of smart/multimedia classrooms;
(b) training teachers to create digital contents for their use in
classrooms.

22. ICT education
The Bangladesh National Library Modernization
Project is working in the following areas: digital
library infrastructure, collect materials for full-text
digitization, permanent store, create digital data
storage, online data transfer, automatic binding
and conservation measures to scientific and
research.

23. Agendas for 7FYP
1. Interactive multimedia classrooms in every school
2. Incentives for teachers based on performance and
innovation
3. ICT literacy for students in tertiary education
4. Monitoring at the field level
5. Education TV or web TV
6. Financing ICT education
7. National Certifying Authority