BD: Enhancing Digital Government & Economy Project

The objective of the Enhancing Digital Government and Economy Project for Bangladesh is to improve the efficiency and cybersecurity of digital government, and increase digitally enabled employment and raise revenues of IT industry firms supported by the Project. The Project has four components. 1. Enabling Environment for Digital Government and Digital Economy component has three subcomponents. 1.1. Legal and Regulatory Enabling Environment for Digital Government and the Digital Economy subcomponent will provide (i) support for review, development and implementation of the policy, legal and regulatory frameworks; (ii) establishment and strengthening of data protection safeguards; (iii) support for BCC for implementation of organization changes; and support (iv) development and implementation of business plan for integrated digital platform. 1.2. Change and Stakeholder Management subcomponent will support development and implementation of a change and stakeholder management program for selected Government of Bangladesh (GoB) agencies. 1.3. GOB Digital Capacity Development subcomponent will support (i) establishment of a digital leadership academy (DLA) under Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) as a center of excellence for knowledge or disruptive/emerging technologies; and (ii) establishment of a digital intellectual property agency under BCC as a center of excellence for digital-related intellectual property issues and activities. 2. Transforming Digital Government component has three subcomponents. 2.1. Integrated Digital Platform (IDP) for Digital Government and Digital Economy subcomponent will support the establishment of an integrated digital platform as a shared, cloud-computing platform for use by any GoB agency to build, operate and maintain its sector-specific systems, applications and services. 2.2. Cybersecurity Strengthening for BCC subcomponent will scale up of BCC cybersecurity activities to enhance GoB internal network security. 2.3. Mainstreaming...