UDC

What is UDC and why?

Union Digital Center is a state-of-the-art information and knowledge center (telecentre) set up in the Union Council, which aims to ensure digital services at the doorstep of grassroots people. From this center, people of rural areas get life and livelihood information and necessary services in their home environment very easily.

On November 11, 2010, the Prime Minister inaugurated all the Union Digital Centers (UDCs) across the country through video conferences from the Prime Minister's Office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and former New Zealand Miss Helen Clark Bhola district Char Kakrimukuri Union. It was then named Union Information and Service Centers (UISC), later changed its name to Union Digital Center. About 40 lakh people are receiving digital services from these service centers in the month. Through the easy, rapid and low cost of UDC, public and private services have started getting a lot of positive change in the lives of the local people.

UDC's journey begins with 'People at the service of Doorsteps' in front of the slogan. With the establishment of UDC, it has been possible to create a free flow of information in every respect of the society and the state system, where people are not going to door to door to serve them, but the service is reaching the doorstep of the people at the doorstep of the people. Free flow of information is one of the prerequisites for empowering the public. With the establishment of a digital center in the country's 4,501 union parishad, it has facilitated access to information and services at the earliest with participation of rural people's free flow of information.

Materials:

A UDC has several computers and related materials to ensure improved information services for the public, which has been phased in and is being phased out. UDC's necessary materials are from entrepreneurial investment and union council funds (revenue and LGSP projects). A computer with a minimum stabilizer, a sophisticated printer, a color printer, a modem for online connection, a scanner, a digital camera can be started initially in a UDC program. But for the full UDC management, the following materials are needed -

    Multiple computers (desktop and laptop)
    1 multimedia projector with large screen
    1 laser printer
    1 color printer
    1 modem
    1 scanner machine
    1 laminating machine
    1 photocopier machine
    1 digital camera
    1 webcam
    1 generator

Upgrading to a UDC on the basis of local demand can be less than or equal to.

Union Digital Center has been established based on PPPP (Public-Private-People's Partnership) model. There are two local youth entrepreneurs in each UDC, among them a man and a woman. These entrepreneurs manage UDC. In some centers, a woman and a male entrepreneur are working as a 'alternative entrepreneur' as well as a woman and a woman. The merchants are not UDC's salaried workers, income of every UDC is earned by the entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur is also an investor in UDC.

Partnership or Partnership:

UDCs are being led by local government departments. Under the guidance of the Cabinet Division and the management of the local administration, other activities including the supervision of UDC are conducted. From the LGD and Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), the funds for training of UDC's required ICT equipment and entrepreneurship have increased. BCC also provided solar panels in 1013 uninterrupted unions and brought all the Union Parishads under electricity. Apart from this, many institutions like BANK-insurance, mobile companies, NGOs, education-research institutes, hardware-software associations are involved with UDC with their services, new skills and technical support.

UMAs or UDC Activity Management System:

UDC program management or 'UMS' (http://www.e-service.gov.bd/uams/), an online software designed to help UDC entrepreneur's income calculation and follow-up of local administration, has been created. UDC entrepreneurs upload their daily income information here.

Ekseba: All services for the entrepreneur at one address:

Ekseba is a platform for entrepreneurs through which the entrepreneurs provide all types of services to the general public. This is an advanced version of 'OneSTop Service'. (http://eksheba.gov.bd/)

Blog (uiscbd.ning.com):

The UDC blog (uiscbd.ning.com) has been created to instil entrepreneurs with their interaction, inter-relations and facilitate quick communication with the entrepreneurs and local administration officials. This blog is a powerful online platform for 4,501 UDC's 9,002 entrepreneurs spread across the country, where the entrepreneurs interact with their experiences, identify problems and find solutions, take initiative, work with shoulder shoulders with local administration , Even getting the opportunity to discuss with policymakers.

 

--Manwar Hossain Jahangir

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