1) The document discusses Bangladesh's Service Innovation Fund (SIF), which provides seed funding for innovative projects to improve public service delivery.
2) Notable SIF-funded projects included expanding e-purchase orders from 2 sugar mills to 15, establishing 4,500+ rural e-service centers, and increasing multimedia classrooms in schools from 7 to 20,500.
3) The SIF supports a wide range of innovations focused on improving services for underserved groups in areas like rural development, gender empowerment, and use of low-cost technologies.
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Service Innovation Fund A2I
1. Facilitating Improvement in
Service Delivery:
Service Innovation Fund
Md. Asad-Ur-Rahman Nile
Corporate Outreach Expert
Access to Information Programme
Prime Minister’s Office
7. Why Service Innovation Fund?
Provide seed funding to pioneering
and creative innovations for better
public service delivery
Enhance capacity of small-medium
initiatives working to improve service
delivery
8. What are the focus areas for 2013?
Within the broader context of
service delivery for the underserved
Service
decentralization
Gender
empowerment
Low cost
devices/technologie
s
Right to Information
Rural Development
Green Initiatives
Bangla Language
Tools
9. What is the size of the fund?
Think big, start small, scale up fast!
For 3 years
Tk. 80 Crore
Category
Small
Medium
Large
For 2013
Tk. 1.5 Crore
Fund range
< Tk. 5 lac
Tk. 5-15 lac
Tk. 15-25 lac
10. Realization 6: Blend Private Sector
Innovation
Public
agencies
Private sector organizations
NGOs
Academia & research
organizations
Individuals
YOU
11. SIF Process
Policy makers,
academia,
industry experts
Submission
Administrative
check
4806
554
Midterm
review
First
Installment
Technical
Expert’s
Evaluation
Innovation
Check
71
20
Fund
Disbursement
EC Approval
7
Second
Installment
Deliverables
check
Final
Installment
a2i Steering
Committee
12. Award
Organization/ Person
Title
Soil Resource
Development Institute
Online Fertilizer Recommendation: Automation of
data processing and data updating
JBC
JBC’s Cell Phone Insurance Claim Payment Service
Young Power in Social
Action (YPSA)
Production of Multi-media Digital Talking Book
UIU
Development of a Bangla Optical Character
Recognizer (OCR)
13. SIF Timeline 2013
Activity
Launch by Hon’ble Finance
Minister
Submission Deadline
Award by Hon’ble Speaker
2nd Round Open
2nd Round Submission
Deadline
Date
March 28, 2013
June 30, 2013
September 25,
2013
October 20, 2013
December 21,
2013