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Q: What is the Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation (BdDGF)?
A:
Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation (BdDGF) is an independent not
for profit organization owned and managed by public-private partnerships
focuses on community development aiming at poverty alleviation at the
country level by developing an effective and self sustainable website
of Bangladesh for knowledge sharing and to disseminate information through
partnership alliance.
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Q: What is the relationship between the Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation
(BdDGF) and Development Gateway Foundation (DGF)?
A:
Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation (BdDGF) in collaboration
with Development Gateway Foundation, Inc. (DGF), Washington, USA, maintains
and developed an interactive web site for the benefit of users. BdDGF
is the country-level components of the DGF and the website is being developed
under financial support from DGF.
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Q: What is the basic mission of BdDGF?
A:
The basic mission is to facilitate innovative and effective use of the
Internet and to disseminate information, increase knowledge sharing, improving
the quality life of the people and to enhance development in the country
aiming at poverty alleviation and to promote sustainable development.
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Q: What are the Bangladesh Development Gateway Foundation’s main programs
and services offer?
A: To maintain
and develop an interactive website enriched with country level information
as well as sharing global knowledge to foster development of the country.
Services and activities include:
- Up dated country level information
directory.
- Information on Government,
Development,
Health, Education,
Legal Aid,
Agriculture,
ICT, Industry
and Commerce, Arts
& Culture of Bangladesh
- E-learning
- Link to Development Gateway Foundation (DGF)
- Link to other Country
Gateways -55 countries is now operational
- Link to directory of development projects (AiDA)
- Link to public tender (dgMarket)
- Link to Networks of Research and IT Training Centers.
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Q: What is Bangladesh Development Gateway Portal?
A:
Bangladesh Development Gateway Portal is an interactive website of country
level information directory as well as information on development issues
aiming at capacity building for elimination of poverty from the country.
The portal provides space for communities to share experiences on development
issues and efforts, information of local project database linking to directory
of development project (AiDA),
procurement market (dgMarket),
DGF
and network of country-level initiatives Country
Gateways.
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Q: What technology platform does the Bangladesh Development Gateway use?
A:
The Bangladesh Development Gateway portal uses an open-source approach
to technology and information standards, which enables greater accessibility,
scalability, reliability, collaboration, and innovation. BdDGF has installed
3 (three) Servers, one server at USA (commercial web hosting center) and
two servers at Dhaka, one for development and Database backend purposes
and other for time-based backup.
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Q: Who are the Bangladesh Development Gateways’ Partners?
A:
BdDGF is managed by public-private partnerships focuses on community development
aiming at poverty alleviation as such our partners and users can be from
all sectors both local and global that support development. We invite
partnership from all sectors: -
- Individual
- Government / non-government organizations
- Civil society
- NGOs
- Donors agencies / Individuals
- Local community
- Entrepreneurs
- Private companies
- Foundations
- Academics
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Q: What are the benefits of the partners /donors?
A: The Bangladesh Development Gateway portal has been
developed through partnership alliances and using the portal services,
partners get important information and resources readily available combining
their own information that ultimate improves development effectiveness.
Donors shall be benefited from the project database and related information
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Q: Who are the beneficiaries of Country Gateways?
A: BdDGF
portal contains all country level information and also focuses important
national issues of development. All sections of users shall be benefited
that includes:
• Individuals,
various user groups, civil society, NGOs, academia, consumers, professional
communities, researchers, students.
• Private sector
• Government officials.
• Business communities, Investors.
• International development agencies.
• Various types of communities (professional, youth, etc.)
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