Govt to introduce Nat'l e-Service Bus

The government is going to introduce National e-Service Bus to ensure sharing of digital information, improve e-services accessibility and facilitate interoperability of inter-government agencies.

The e-Service will be a software driven middleware platform, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak told the news agency.

The UK based Ernst and Young, appointed by the World Bank financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Government (LICT) of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), has been providing technical support to establish the e-Service under Bangladesh National Enterprise Architecture (BNEA). "This will not only remove hassle to access e-services but also help reducing cost of an organisation or individual to develop software, data and statistics," said Palak.

Executive Director of BCC SM Ashraful Islam said some government organisations spent huge amount of money to gather information and develop database separately. If they established connection with National e-Service Bus, there is no further necessity of re-developing the same database.

LICT project sources said as part of introducing National e-Service Bus, NEA portal has been launched to make it knowledge repository of the government ministries, divisions and agencies, academia and industry.

"The portal is intended to include  principles, standards, specifications, reference models, architecture design guidelines, e-Services, tools, and roadmaps for organisations in-line with digital Bangladesh vision," said LICT Deputy Project Director Tarique M Barkatullah. LICT project has initiated a twelve-day knowledge sharing and training programme on National e-Service Bus from February 3, Tarique added.