A New Beginning with True and Timely Data: Reform, Reverse, Rebuild Bangladesh’s Future!
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Bangladesh has embarked on a new journey.
The aspiration is to make Bangladesh 2.0 based upon principles of democracy, transparency, accountability and equity.
One of our priorities is to develop an ecosystem of policy-making with evidence, comprising both qualitative and quantitative data.
The priority must include the following:
- Formation of a Commission and detection of anomalies in national demographic, socioeconomic, and other data for systemic factors and political factors
- Development of data architecture for generation, processing, and access to data of economic, social, and political activities.
- Restructuring of institutions including the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) for producing quality and timely data for making key economic decisions.
- Developing a comprehensive data interoperability system for maximum benefit for citizens and business services.
- Creating a system of data generation and access with maximum pre-caution of data privacy and data protection from the citizen’s perspective.
- Engaging professionals from home and abroad for the execution of the roadmap for implementation of the data architecture with short-term, mid-term, and long-term action items.
True data can facilitate a system of accountability with freedom of speech, which has been largely missing.
Let the new chapter for Bangladesh be based on transparency which will fuel trust, accountability, and progress.
