Supporting women in ICTs: A step toward achieving e-governance in Bangladesh

Abstract

E- Governance is a strategic issue that includes reshaping public administration process of a country mostly at policy making level to make the governance more transparent, accountable to people, efficient and service- oriented. Like other developing countries, Bangladesh is also stepping ahead to achieve E-Governance through usage of Information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study will try to identify the potentialities of women’s participation in ICTs for achieving E-Governance in Bangladesh. It also looks at the real scenario of women involvement in ICTs both at urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. Besides these, this study will try to address major problems of supporting women’s access to ICT and provide a set of specific recommendations. In Bangladesh, it is very important to facilitate access to ICT because it is one of the major concerns of E- Governance. Government initiatives for making ICT facilities available at grass root levels and vast campaigning for learning usage of ICT, recruitment of women in ICT related jobs and arranging trainings may increase women involvement in ICTs which is obviously a step toward achieving E- Governance. In this study, supporting women in ICT refers to encouraging women for proper usage of information and Communication technology and to provide guideline for availing these privileges. The study is being arranged with some chapters like Introduction, rationale for the study, research objectives, research questions, research hypothesis, theoretical and conceptual framework, analysis of research findings, recommendation and conclusion.