Anir Chowdhury: Orchestrating national digital transformation in Bangladesh

For the last few decades, the role of digital orchestrator, in which one focal organization coordinates and catalyzes a digital ecosystem, has dominated digital technology success stories.  From Apple to Amazon to Alibaba, tech giants have demonstrated the scalability of this approach, building an underlying technology platform, sharing common rules and governance structures, and working with innovators to create new services and applications on top of underlying infrastructure. From mobile banking to video games, this orchestration role has created new services the early Internet founders could only imagine.  But what does this look like when a government versus a company drives the change?  This episode goes behind the scenes with Anir Chowdhury, Executive Director of a2i on Bangladesh’s national digital transformation journey and the role of digital technology in building a more inclusive society.