 Shahida Sultana

 Deputy Secretary
 A2I Program
 ICT Division,
 Bangladesh
 shahida21bcs@gmail.com
 Shahida_sultana@yahoo.com
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01 Leveraging rapid expansion of technology and E-
services

Prime Facilitator of Digital Bangladesh

Building Innovation Ecosystem

Paradigm Shift in Service
Decentralization: Digital Centres

 Government
5000+ Digital Centres services
2014
 Innovative
10,000+ entrepreneurs Financial
Products
110+ services  ‘Assisted’
Rural e-
5 million+ citizens/month Commerce
 Fostering To create Seed money
Grassroots Empathy
Innovations Grant
Ministry of Science And
Technology

ICT Division & A2I

IDEA PROJECT
Providing Encouraging
Research
Other ministries Training work

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Innovation Fund to facilitate breakthrough innovation

Empathy-based Innovation Triggering

Cultivating new seeds of innovation by empowering the youth

Transformation of Ideas
Review by
Groom Technical Impact Nationwide
Call for Review Pilot the Scale-up of
with Expert Panel Analysis
applicatio and ideas for a the
expert and fund the
year And Further potential
n shortlist winning R&D
mentors ideas
projects

6500+ proposals in 5 years 63 Projects successfully

completed
230 ideas funded
30 Projects scaled up
To Promote grassroot innovation

Funding innovative solutions to solve Platform for accelerating

national problems through competition innovation culture through
- Implemented 3 projected engaging all citizens'
- Funding for inclusive University especially student and
teachers'

Challenge
Fund

Empathy
Since 2016, empowering
training Of Civil servants
Innovation women for solving
Fund national and their own
• Funded 230 projects Innovation With a Women Innovation problems by themselves
• 63 projects completed Camp
Special focus on
• 30 projects successfully • Awarded 22 ideas till now
scaled up
Accessibility
 University: grassroot innovation

Area of Collaboration

Research to end line Incorporate private

product & upscale body/ industry

Research support
Internship
BANSDOC
AREA OF
National CO L L A B O R AT I O National Problem
Problem N Solving Challenge
A2i and
Identification Universities

Students Project Innovation

Funding Competition

Yearly conference
R&D , IP
on Local problem
Protection
 Empathy-based Innovation

Execution
• Empathy Training
for government • Impact Analysis
officers and field • Replication and
level executives • Partnership with nationwide
• Designing solution relevant implementation
for the identified ministries and
problems departments
• Piloting for a year

Initiation Implementation
 Empathy-based Innovation Journey
100 million
Citizens will be
served by 2021
Innovation
Replicated
127

Citizens served till 2018

Innovation 18.86 million
Prototype initiated
Prototype
1896 completed
541
 Women’s Innovation Camp (WIC)

Collaborative initiative of Access to Information Programme (a2i) and Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
(MOWCA) to support the parity issues of women and involving the society in several women empowerment
activities.
Purpose of this camp is to identify some significant problems in the society and bring feasible solution but
through women innovators.

Call for Groom with Review by Pilot the Nationwide

Review and Impact
application expert mentors Technical Expert
shortlist the ideas for a Scale-up of the
from all over
submitted ideas
to brush up the Panel and fund Analysis potential projects
the country ideas the winning ideas year

WIC 2016: 1 project was funded to pilot

WIC 2017: 4 projects were funded to pilot
WIC 2018: 5 projects were funded to pilot
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 Agriculture Extension Portal (AEP)
Krishok Bandhu Phone Seba

Agriculture Extension Portal

3331
krishi.gov.bd Krishok Bandhu
Phone Seba
Portal User: 12,290

Farmer Info

Knowledge Sharing) Monitoring tool for Head

Office,

120 Crop, 780 Crop Variety,

4,494 Market Info
1010 Pest & its Management
Citizen centric

Prison Link Krishoker Janala

Notable Projects of Innovation Fund
 C O M PETI TO R A N A LY SI S

Talk Tablet Talking Device PRIO-mini

$80 $65 $3995

Icons and
messages BDT 5,500 IOS based
cannot be and not
customized customizabl
or added e
 Competitor Analysis

Victor Reader Stratus12 HVPro Player

M Daisy MP3 player $130
Multimedia Book Reader
$455
$65
BDT 5500 Customization
Customization and
and modification modification not
not possible. possible.
Bangla TTS not Bangla TTS not
available available
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 Smart Blind Stick

Project Brief:
A blind stick equipped with
developed system, which is provide
hepatic feedback whenever there are
obstacles nearby. Therefore, blind
people will get alert easily about the
obstacles ahead them.

Per Unit Cost: 5,000 BDT

Approximately 62$
Smart Blind Stick

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Central Nebulizer
A centrally controlled nebulizing system to serve multiple patients using
a single cylinder.
Each nebulizer can have up to 30 nebulizing pipes attached with
diff erent hospital beds and the doses will be centrally controlled by the
device using a switch.
PILOTIN G
The system is currently
installed in National
Institute of Diseases of
the Chest and Hospital
with 6 nebulizing pipes
attached with 6 different
hospital beds serving a t
the emergency room.

Price: BDT 2 Lac for 6 nozzles

Max- 2400 $
 Problems Faced to Execute the Innovation Journey

1. Development of global standard product and

ensuring quality
2. Lack of investment for commercialization
3. Some archaic national policies
4. Limited partnership between government and
private sector, and between government and
citizens, to solve problems
Innovation: Policy formulated/ reformed

• Procurement from single source for the innovative products from

grass root innovators for the scale up purpose

• Budget allocation for the maintenance of scaled up grass root

innovations

• Integration of innovation with the annual performance

agreement of every ministry
• Space allocation/lab facilities for innovators in the developing
stage
 Collaboration: SCOPE FOR ESCAP

Mentor collaboration Lab Sharing Investors’ Platform Global Scale up

(For true Collaboration (for handshaking (To ensure the actual
transformation of (For Finished product between investors benefit from the
Ideas) or outputs) and innovators) innovation)
Thanks to
you all

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