“Building Horizontal Partnerships with Shared
Ownership & Mutual Accountability” –
Bangladesh-Korea ICT Training Centre
Partners:
KOICA -Government of the Republic of
Korea
Bangladesh Bureau of Education
Information and Statistics (BANBEIS)Government of Bangladesh
Presidency University-Bangladesh
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Bangladesh-Korea ICT Training Centre
Background
With the adoption of “Digital Bangladesh” as an
unprecedented lever for economic emancipation as
well as an enabler for poverty reduction & human
development, Bangladesh embarked on a new ICTbased human development landscape through
implementation of ICT Policy 2002. KOICA
extended its already matured expertise in ICT to
embracing Education sector as vehicle for ICT
knowledge & skill transformation as part of
National Development Strategy and assisted
BANBEIS to transform it as an institution par
excellence for creating computer literate government
staff to enhance ICT use in every sphere of national
life starting with its existing Educational
Information Management System (EIMS) &
Geographical Information System (GIS) school
mapping involving secondary and higher
secondary school teachers.
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Objectives
•Establishing ICT Training
Center to promote ICT skills of
secondary & higher secondary
level school teachers to quickly
spread IT education up-to grass
root level.
•Transforming the existing
EIMS of BANBEIS into an
State-of-the-Art network to
link all offices of the Ministry
of Education with Web based
EIMS database & GIS school
mapping for management
decision making.
•Enhancing quality of training
& creating master trainer with
Korean-design curriculum &
Korean-led practicum.
Innovation
•Ground-breaking matching of “Digital Bangladesh” agenda
with Korea’s development cooperation agenda-“the provision
for Basic Human Needs & Human Resources Development”
focusing on neighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
•Anchoring ICT Policy 2002 in Education sector to embrace
Korean foreign assistance to promote regional cooperation
through KOICA to establish state-of-the-art ICT training
centre to contribute in creating knowledge & skill-based
human resources at both master trainer level & grass-roots
level.
•Establishment of five ICT labs in the renovated & remodeled
BANBEIS computer division as the center of excellence under
‘Bangladesh-Korea ICT Training Center for Education
(BKITCE) project' orchestrated the design of an appropriate
IT infrastructure in the Government system.
•SSC compatibility through promotion of national ownership
over development policy, alignment with national
development strategy, harmonization with country systems,
managing for results & mutual accountability-all the
principles of aid effectiveness were practiced by both the
Government of Korea & Government of Bangladesh (GoB) by
jointly taking responsibility for managing the project
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activities & monitoring the results
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Results
•Establishment of an state-of-the-art ICT training centre in the education sector
to transfer Korean expertise in ICT training and courseware for institutional
capacity development.
•Enhancement of ICT knowledge for implementing e-governance in the country
to establish ‘Digital Bangladesh’.
•Demand driven training on e-application in daily official works;
•Involvement of women in ICT management through training & participation;
•Adaptation of a framework of joint leadership within regional cooperation that
works best for Bangladesh.
Applicability
The success story promoted complementarities in this sector & encouraged both
host government/institution & Donor to expand their horizontal association &
undertake another project for the establishment of Upazila (Sub-district) ICT
Training & Resource Centre for Education (UITRCE). The project is expected to
facilitate ICT training of grass-root level education office staff in 128 Upazila by
using the expertise of master trainers already developed in BANBEIS.
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