Blogs for govt officials mulled
The government is planning to introduce departmental blog, an online platform, under its different ministries to enable information sharing and interaction among officials from lower to upper tier of the administration with an aim to get solutions to various issues, said officials of Access to Information (A2I) Programme.
They said the departmental blogs of the Ministries of Health and Population Welfare; Social Welfare; and Women and Children Affairs have already been developed by A2I Programme and are now on test run.
The same blog would be replicated for other ministries after successful completion of the test run, they added.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Secretary and National Project Director Md Nazrul Islam Khan said all officials and employees would be soon using the blogs for writing about various issues, making their respective websites virtual networks of interactive communication.
The blogs are being designed following the model of the Union Information Service Centre (UISC) that has emerged as an effective platform to troubleshoot various types of issues, including technical, official, socio- economic and employment issues, he said.
Nazrul said currently more than 10,000 entrepreneurs of different UISCs and officials of government are regularly writing for the blogs, offering the public necessary information and solutions to various issues.
A2I Local Development Expert Manik Mahmud said different ministries and departments could post notices and annual reports on their respective online blogs to share with others that would save both time and money of the government.
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