Bangladesh Computer Council
Profile
- Head
- Md Abu Sayed
- Role
- Executive Director (Additional Charge) and Additional Secretary
- Annual budget
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- Staff
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- Established
- 1990
- Legal basis
- Bangladesh Computer Council Act, 1990 (Act No. IX of 1990 passed by the National Parliament); preceded by Bangladesh Computer Council Ordinance, 1989; evolved from the National Computer Committee established 1983
BCC is operating as Bangladesh's apex ICT implementation agency under the ICT Division, managing the country's only Tier-III certified government National Data Center, running BGD e-GOV CIRT as the national cybersecurity response team now formally empowered under the Cyber Safety Ordinance 2025, and implementing broadband connectivity to 2,600 underserved unions under the Connected Bangladesh programme; the agency faces ongoing reputational fallout from the December 2024 EC contract cancellation over NID data mishandling, and is pivoting toward AI and cybersecurity human resource development with new training programmes announced April 2026 under Smart Bangladesh.
Recent activity
- 2026-04-09 policy ICT Division announced that BCC will launch training programmes within six months in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, mobile app development using Flutter, Python programming, and AI-based digital marketing, as part of Smart Bangladesh human resource development. ↗↗
- 2026-03-11 scandal The Election Commission-BCC NID data controversy resurfaced in parliamentary discussion: BCC's December 2024 contract cancellation for breaching the October 2022 bilateral agreement (which barred BCC from transferring NID data to third parties) was cited as a governance failure; BCC had shared NID verification data with unauthorised parties in violation of the EC agreement. ↗↗
- 2026-02-26 policy BGD e-GOV CIRT (operating under BCC) issued a Cyber Security Alert urging all government agencies and Critical Information Infrastructure operators to maintain heightened cybersecurity vigilance during the Eid holiday period; the alert cited 600 vulnerable PRTG instances in Bangladesh affected by CVE-2018-19410 (CISA KEV-listed) across 434,022 exposed IP addresses. ↗↗
- 2025-11-13 other BCC/BKIICT concluded a five-day Training of Trainers (ToT) programme on Frontier Technologies (AI, robotics, blockchain, drones, 3D printing, nanotechnology, cybersecurity) for officials from the Department of ICT and Ministry of Education; 1,200 officials will be trained under the MoU to establish and operate digital labs in secondary schools nationwide. Inaugurated by Executive Director Md Abu Sayed. ↗
- 2025-05-21 regulation The Cyber Safety Ordinance 2025 came into effect on 21 May 2025, replacing the Cyber Security Act 2023; the ordinance formally designates BCC as the National Computer Emergency Response Team (NCERT) alongside BGD e-GOV CIRT and the National Security Operation Centre, with mandate for real-time cyber monitoring, threat detection, and coordinated response; organisations now legally required to report incidents to NCERT. ↗↗
Provenance & notes
BCC is Bangladesh's apex statutory ICT body, established under Act No. IX of 1990 (preceded by the 1989 Ordinance; the institution traces to the National Computer Committee formed in 1983). It sits under the ICT Division of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology; parent_id_ref = 'ICT Division'. Executive Director Md Abu Sayed (Additional Charge, rank: Additional Secretary) confirmed active in this role as of November 2025 per BSS News; precise appointment date not found in primary sources so head_since = null. staff_count = null: no publicly available sanctioned-post figure found; Banglapedia mentions approximately 106 executives at headquarters with seven regional training centres, but a verified total sanctioned-post count was not recoverable. annual_budget_bdt = null: BCC's individual budget is embedded in the ICT Division envelope (Tk 2,144 crore for FY2025-26 per Lightcastle Partners / CPD budget analysis) and is not separately published. National Data Center: the only Tier-III certified government data center in Bangladesh, located at ICT Tower E-14/X, Agargaon, Dhaka 1207; certified since 2010 (Uptime Institute award foil FOIL_BCC8642_NDC-Expansion_TIIICDD_190509); offers IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. BGD e-GOV CIRT: established after the 2016 Bangladesh Bank cyber heist; FIRST, OIC-CERT, and APCERT member; now governed by Cyber Safety Ordinance 2025 (effective 21 May 2025) which replaced the Cyber Security Act 2023. BCC held ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024 Tier-1 Role Model Country status. NID data controversy: EC cancelled BCC contract December 2024 for breaching the October 2022 bilateral agreement that barred NID data sharing with third parties. BdREN: Bangladesh Research and Education Network, a separate non-profit government trust (established 2009, trust formalised 2019) with 78 university members; managed under UGC/Ministry of Education but BCC provides some infrastructure support; classified as a separate entity from BCC in primary sources. Verification: all factual claims cross-checked against at least two independent primary or reputable secondary sources (Wikipedia, Banglapedia, BCC-CA official, BGD e-GOV CIRT official, BSS News, Mondaq, Daily Star, New Age).
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Computer_Council
- https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Bangladesh_Computer_Council
- https://www.bcc-ca.gov.bd/about
- https://www.cirt.gov.bd/who-we-are
- https://www.cirt.gov.bd/alerts
- https://ndc.bcc.gov.bd/
- https://ndc.bcc.gov.bd/?page_id=106
- https://www.bssnews.net/news/331528
- https://www.mondaq.com/new-technology/1659100/cyber-security-ordinance-2025-implications-for-businesses-in-bangladesh
- https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/ec-cancels-deal-bcc-nid-services-3782166
- https://www.newagebd.net/post/country/253457/bangladesh-ec-cancels-deal-with-bcc-for-nid-data-verification-service
- https://uptimeinstitute.com/uptime-institute-awards/datacenter/national-data-center-expansion-agargaon-/1044
- https://lict.gov.bd/main/pdetails/55
- https://connectedbangladesh.bcc.gov.bd/
- https://bkiict.bcc.gov.bd/