Bangladesh has ranked up to 115th in the latest E-Government Development Survey, thanks to its progress in the Information and Communication Technology sector over the last six years.
Access to Information (a2i) programme published the index at a press conference today. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) evaluates the ranking every two years.
Out of 193 countries, Bangladesh scored 0.4862 in the latest survey. The country has advanced 35 steps since the 2012 survey. Bangladesh ranked 124th, 148th and 150th in the surveys done in 2016, 2014 and 2012 respectively.
While it stayed behind after Sri Lanka (94), India (96) and Maldives (97) within the region, it fared better than Nepal (117), Bhutan (126), Pakistan (148) and Afghanistan (177).
In the press conference, the government expressed its satisfactions with the consecutive improvement and also with discomfort that the ranking could be much smarter.
“We are now in the highest position in all the indexes, however our improvement might not be reflected in all the studies,” said Mustafa Jabbar, minister for Telecom and ICT.
In the latest index, Denmark secured top position. Australia was placed second.