Bangladesh has begun work on AI-powered Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) which it aims to launch within 18 to 24 months, according to the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Telecommunications and ICT speaking in New York last week. Key to its implementation will be a central digital ID as the main means of accessing various government services. Digital inclusion, however, depends on the human and institutional arrangements that make such online systems usable. Currently, digital centres in Bangladesh can be powerful bridges between analogue citizens and the digital state, but only where the bridge is strong enough on both sides.
Bangladesh has begun work on AI-powered Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) which it aims to launch within 18 to 24 months, according to the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Telecommunications and ICT speaking in New York last week. Key to its implementation will be a central digital ID as the main means of accessing various government services. Digital inclusion, however, depends on the human and institutional arrangements that make such online systems usable. Currently, digital centres in Bangladesh can be powerful bridges between analogue citizens and the digital state, but only where the bridge is strong enough on both sides.
