a2i, a multinational digital transformation organization founded in Bangladesh, accelerates the inclusive digitization of public services thereby widening access and decentralizes delivery. It evolved from the flagship Aspire to Innovate program of the government’s Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021 initiative, supported by UNDP. Bangladesh’s now aspires to become a prosperous, developed, poverty-free and equitable nation with its bold ‘SMART Bangladesh Vision 2041’ – an aspirational strategic plan to transform the economy to reach High-Income Country status by 2041 and achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals along the way.

Vision 2041 builds on Bangladesh’s remarkable journey towards mass, citizen-centric digitization over the past 13 years. At the heart of this development journey lies a simple yet powerful idea: that creating shared prosperity isn’t possible unless administrative, financial, and political power is decentralized at the grassroots level. That is, unless all citizens are truly empowered.

a2i, a multinational digital transformation organization founded in Bangladesh, accelerates the inclusive digitization of public services thereby widening access and decentralizes delivery. It evolved from the flagship Aspire to Innovate program of the government’s Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021 initiative, supported by UNDP. Bangladesh’s now aspires to become a prosperous, developed, poverty-free and equitable nation with its bold ‘SMART Bangladesh Vision 2041’ – an aspirational strategic plan to transform the economy to reach High-Income Country status by 2041 and achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals along the way.