Nat'l digital architecture, AI-ready workforce at the core

FE Team | Published: November 26, 2025 23:09:45

FE Report
Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser on Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb on Wednesday outlined an ambitious digital reform agenda aimed at reshaping Bangladesh's legal, infrastructural, and human capital foundations for a rapidly evolving digital economy.
Speaking virtually at the inauguration of Bangladesh TechConnect 2025, jointly organised by Huawei and the ICT Division, he said Bangladesh's foundational work for a "digital economic fly" was nearing completion, with sweeping legal reforms, a national digital architecture, and an AI-ready workforce at the heart of the next phase.
He acknowledged that Bangladesh's legal foundation for the digital sector had long been inadequate, but said the government had now initiated a comprehensive overhaul.
Taiyeb said the next decade would see a "complete reshaping of the legal foundation", including amendments to the Television Act and the development of policies on AI, cloud, data exchange, and growth-oriented digital regulations.
Under the new data-sharing mandate, ministries will exchange data for need-based activities to improve service delivery and enable industries to deploy AI applications.
However, he stressed that stringent compliance and safety measures would be enforced in all cases.
Emphasising that more than 750 ministries and departments currently operate in silos, he announced a landmark initiative to break decades of fragmentation through the Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA).
A new development project proposal, prepared with support from the World Bank, will connect all ministries and departments through a unified national digital highway.
To address long-standing challenges in data fragmentation, the government will also deploy an "additional authentication layer" to synchronise data fields across agencies.
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