Bangladesh Enterprise Institute organized a workshop for sharing findings of the strategy paper on Public Information Role of Law-enforcement and Intelligence Agencies in Bangladesh held on Sunday, 18 July 2010 from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the BEI Conference Room (House-20, Road-05, Gulshan-1, Dhaka-1212) .

The strategy paper had been developed on the basis of a field-based research. The primary objective of the strategy paper was to address the research and policy gap so that the people could play an effective role in sharing information with the agencies for countering terrorism in Bangladesh.

For further information, Please feel free to contact Ms. Zohra, Senior Research Associate, BEI at zohra@bei-bd.org or Mr. Ashish Banik, Research Assistant, BEI at ashish@bei-bd.org , Phone:+88 02 9892662-3, Extn:116

The Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) organized a round-table on “Realizing the vision of Digital Bangladesh through e-Government” on July 15, 2010 from 4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M. at the BEI conference room (House 20, Road 5, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh). In this roundtable, a report on ‘Realizing the Vision of Digital Bangladesh through e-Government’ was launched.

This round-table was the final part of a BEI-initiated comprehensive study on the current state and opportunities of e-Governance in Bangladesh. The study aimed to assist the Government of Bangladesh in realizing the vision of establishing a ‘Digital Bangladesh’.  Bangladesh has made significant progress in health sector and in achieving the MDGs (goal 4, 5 and 6). Bangladesh is also a role model in developing countries with respect to incorporating information systems in...

A BEI-led team of four members, consisting of Mr. Humayun Kabir, Senior Research Director, BEI and Mr. Faiz Sobhan, Research Director, BEI, and two senior law enforcement officials from the Government of Bangladesh, undertook a very successful trip to Singapore and Indonesia from 13 to 18 June 2010.  The objective of the visit to both countries was to learn the successes of the Counter-Terrorism strategy adopted by both countries. 

The delegation had a number of meetings with senior government officials and counter-terrorism experts from both Singapore and Indonesia.  In Singapore, the delegation also had a roundtable meeting organized by the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang University.   In Indonesia, the delegation had meetings with the Jakarta Centre for Law...

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