Union Digital Center (UDC)
Bangladesh
Established in 2010, The Union Digital Center (UDC) is a national initiative to bring government services and private-public information at the doorsetsp pf the citizens. and connecting all citizens with the modern system of information flow. 6,790 digital centers are set up across the country to provide services. THe CDC is part of a long strategy establishing a knowledge-based country. Over 200 public and private services are being provided from these centers. Examples of services include: Landfill, life insurance, payment of rural electricity bill, government forms, results of public examinations, online university admission, online birth-death registration, VGF-VGD list, citizen charter, citizen application, agricultural information, Health advice etc. Private services include Mobile Banking, Computer Training, Photography, Internet Browsing, Email, Job Information, Compose, British Council English Education, Visa Application and Tracking, Conferencing in Video, Printing, Scanning, Photocopy, Leminating etc. UDC also includes the ICTD initiative "Mygov" app, which has eased access to 334 services and over 50 services listed related to agriculture.
Lead (category)
Government agency
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Ministry of Local Government
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
E-Government Services
Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)
Digital Agriculture
Digital Rural Services
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
DI ICT-deliverables format
Web-based platform
Mobile applications
Cloud-based
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
General public/rural areas populations
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Bangladesh
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution