E-Governance and E-Government in Bangladesh: Performance, Challenges and Remedies

The essence of good governance lies in successful implementation of e-governance in wide range of government activities. In current days of digital and ICT based environment, it is impossible to have good government without e-government. The purpose of this study is to discuss the performance of Bangladesh in e-government implementation, identify some of the challenges and suggest some of the remedial measures. As per UN e-government survey Bangladesh performed worse in 2012 than 2010. The challenges arise from change in government policy with change in government, lack of sufficient skilled well-trained human resource, supply of sufficient fund for implementing such capital intensive project, etc. But the situation can be changed by taking necessary steps like political consensus, development of human resource, ICT penetration, and taking proper long-term plan implementing e-government in Bangladesh.