🏢 Civic tech & public services 20 verified entries

Technology aimed at public life: government portals, legal information, utility access and citizen services. The centrepiece is Bangla.gov.bd — the state's own Bangla-computing portal with AI assistants, OCR, corpus and fonts, and downloadable datasets and models on its Hugging Face organisation. Everything here is free to use; where a service is run by a government body we say so explicitly, and where a community project fills a gap the state has not, we say that too.

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• Bangla.gov.bd The Bangladesh government's Bangla-language computing portal from the ICT Division (BCC): Kagaj AI writing assistant, Jijnsha AI government-service assistant, Borno OCR, the National Corpus, a Bangla spell checker, MS Word add-ins and free Bangla fonts, plus downloadable datasets and models on its Hugging Face org (banGPT2, banBERT, banELECTRA, banT5 and the Ban-Sign-Sent-9K sign-language dataset — full details in the AI/ML section). The most consequential state investment in Bangla computing to date. Free to use; licence terms stated per tool BD org / for-BD
• protidhwani Community safety intelligence platform from a Khulna-based developer — collecting and mapping what is happening in a neighbourhood so residents can read the situation, a genre of civic tech that grew sharply after the 2024 upheaval. MIT BD-based
• nyayota Bangladeshi legal information platform: law references organised for citizens rather than lawyers, lowering the cost of knowing your rights. MIT ee list
• desco-prepaid-api Community-documented API for DESCO prepaid electricity meters — reverse-engineered documentation for checking balance and usage programmatically, something the utility itself never published. ⚠ No licence file ee list
• metrox-app Dhaka Metro Rail NFC card balance app — read your MRT pass balance and history from a phone instead of queuing at a machine. Built for the capital's newest transit system. MIT Diaspora
• ThrottleIQ Bangladesh-built bilingual (Bangla/English) GPS ride tracker for bikers, with an active community translation-review process and a public CLA ⚠ TSAL v1.1 source-available licence BD-based
• electric-bill-bd Electricity bill calculator for DESCO, DPDC, NESCO and other Bangladeshi utilities, published on npm — tariff slabs and VAT rules encoded once so every app does not have to re-derive them. MIT BD org / for-BD
• ESBC-AI Bilingual RAG assistant that answers questions on Bangladeshi government services with cited .gov.bd sources — a LangGraph agent retrieves passages from official .gov.bd pages with hybrid search ... Every answer shows its official source and the date I checked it. MIT BD-based
• OshudBot Offline Bangla/Banglish medicine info assistant over a 21,714-brand Bangladeshi drug database; Streamlit — ask it about a drug, a company, or a symptom in Bengali or English, and it answers in Bengali from a database of 21,714 brands; runs with no GPU. MIT BD-based
• BD Rail Ticket Alarm Brave/Chrome extension that alarms the moment Bangladesh Railway tickets go on sale on eticket.gov.bd — watches for your Bangladesh Railway train the second its tickets go on sale on eticket.railway.gov.bd, rings a loud alarm; EN/BN docs. MIT BD-based
• Fishing Women Bangladesh Bangla community reporting platform where Bangladesh's fishing women publish stories, photos and audio — bangla-language community reporting platform where fishing women in Bangladesh ... share stories, photos, videos, and audio; Laravel 12 + Filament. MIT BD-based
• bd-legal-rag Bilingual RAG over Bangladeshi statutes: cited section-level answers in Bangla, English or romanised Bangla — retrieval-augmented question answering system over the statutes of Bangladesh ... with the section cited - or an honest refusal when the corpus does not answer. MIT BD-based
• Tellwater Checks whether a garment factory's wastewater was really treated, cross-examining its meters, logbook photos and lab reports with AI. MIT BD-based
• Pother Bondhu (পথের বন্ধু) Animal-rescue network for Dhaka: post a street animal in trouble and volunteers respond; includes adoption, teams, vet map and PetPoints. proprietary (all-rights-reserved, view/run-only) BD-based
• Foundation Hisab Khata Digital hisab khata for a Bengali welfare foundation: joma entries with allocation preview, Bengali JPEG receipts with QR, member ledgers. MIT BD org / for-BD
• HireBangla Job-search platform aggregating seven Bangladeshi job boards with a resume builder, skill assessments and per-job match scoring — "aggregates listings from seven job boards... Scrapers for BDJobs, Shomvob, Impactpool, CareerJet, NextJobz, Skill.jobs and UNjobs" — Turborepo monorepo with CI.. MIT BD-based
• BillBoard Android app that aggregates NESCO, DESCO and PGCL prepaid electricity and gas meters: balances, payments and low-balance alerts — "A private electricity and gas dashboard for NESCO, DESCO, and PGCL. Track balances, payments, and low-balance alerts in one clear view" — Google Play listing com.butterflydevs.billboard.. ⚠ No licence file BD-based
• Bhumi Setu (ভূমি সেতু) Land-record ledger and title-deed verification platform: chain-of-title across CS/SA/RS/BS surveys, PostGIS overlap and unit conversion. ⚠ No licence file BD-based
• KrishiBangla (কৃষিবাংলা) Bangla-first agriculture site for all 64 districts: live weather, market prices, disaster alerts, crop guides and AI leaf-disease scan — "District desk for all 64 districts: live weather... Market prices... live cyclone, flood and drought alerts... Disease scan: photograph a leaf and the AI suggests the likely problem.". ⚠ No licence file BD-based
• PesticideNext (পেস্টিসাইডনেক্সট) Bilingual PWA holding 9,000+ DAE-registered pesticide formulations with live gov-API search and resistance-rotation guidance — "9,000+ formulations... merged with the 5,485-row AgriChem/MoA PTAC master... in-app live search proxy to ppw.krishi.gov.bd/pesticide-search" — live at pesticide.krishiai.live.. ⚠ No licence file BD-based

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