Ponno Aalap: An Interactive Web Portal for Improving Consumer Experience

Hoque, Sanzida; Sharmee, Sharmin Sultana; Islam, Muhammad Nazrul; Shahrin, Diana; Kabir, Farhana

doi:10.1109/tensymp50017.2020.9230954

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“…Karim et al (2017) depicted the overall picture of mobile health applications developed in Bangladesh, while the use of e-government websites of Bangladesh were analyzed by Islam et al (2020a); Bouwman et al (2020) and Islam et al (2017). Some other studies focused on the development of new ICT-based product to be used explicitly in the context of Bangladesh like automated electricity bill monitoring (Sharif, Muaz, et al, 2018), cloud-based e-commerce application (Rukhsara et al, 2016), web portal to share the left-over medicines to poor or low-income people (Islam et al, 2017), a wearable system for women safety (Islam et al, 2018), interactive web portal “PonnoAalap” for sharing the consumer experience about a specific product to promote the online business (Hoque et al, 2020), secure mobile money transfer system for the small-medium enterprises (Islam et al, 2019), mobile applications for mental health care during COVID-19 pandemic (Islam et al, 2021), and the like.…”

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Exploring the Fundamental Factors of Digital Inequality in Bangladesh

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2021

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Digital inequality is imperative to combat the perpetuation of national development and significantly exists in developing countries. Thus, the purpose of this article is to provide the underlying factors of creating digital inequality in Bangladesh. A mixed-method research approach was followed where both the qualitative and quantitative data were collected using focus group discussion (FGD), semi-structured interviews, and survey. The FGD and interviews were replicated with a total of 60 participants (each study with 30 participants), while 326 respondents participated in the survey study. The content analysis, word cloud, affinity diagram, and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. As an outcome, the studies revealed 23 factors that create digital inequality in Bangladesh. The factors were clustered into five groups (referred as elements) of digital inequality through an affinity diagram. The resultant elements of digital inequality were educational, infrastructural, social, economic, and usable design. The results reflect on what factors should consider ensuring the inclusion, adoption, and contributions of information and communications technology in Bangladesh, which in turn contributes to reducing the digital inequality in Bangladesh. As a practical contribution, this research provides an in-depth scenario of digital inclusion and exclusion in Bangladesh, and the underline factors of creating digital inequality, so that nongovernmental organizations and government organizations may take necessary initiatives toward each dimension of digital inequality. The results also include identification of future research agenda toward reducing digital inequality.

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