Through internet, the new system will provide unprecedented information access to public examination records, and also hold various educational statistics for researchers and academicians.

SASM Taifur, project director, SICT, who is also an additional secretary at the ministry of planning, and Shafqat Ullah, chief technology officer, GMS, signed the contract on behalf of their respective organisations.

Under the contract, SICT will act as the implementing agency, while the Ministry of Education stands as the client and GMS the contractor. "Once working, this project is hoped to act as a role model for such other citizen-access componential projects, which will allow accessibility from the citizen-end," stated Ullah, while he mentioning the need for a further enhanced web-network working on every corner of the country.

SM Sajedul Munir, who worked at Unisys USA for three years developing one of the world's largest distributed airlines reservation systems, will lead the project under the banner of GMS.

"Through this, SSC and HSC results can be published online, a process that takes forever to be executed," Ullah said. He also mentioned how the policy-makers can benefit from the new system at the instance the project starts working.

"Currently we will have to wait at least two years before educational data from all sixty-four districts reach the country's central database at Bangladesh Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics (BANBEIS), located in the capital, where it is entered manually," Ullah cited, referring how the whole process of sending-in updated data from every districts is being done through manual post till present time.

The promised software enhancement project will allow district education officers (DEO) to directly enter all current data from their ends using a distributed information system, which his will reduce the current delay for the of availability of updated information and education statistics from over two years to a single day, enabling the country's education sectors to act on real-time situation.

Under the new system, schools will send data to their local DEOs, who in turn will upload information on the central network server under BANDEIS. It is hoped that eventually school administration will act upon upgrading these information to the base. "Once internet reaches the remote corners the country, the school-officials will be able to upload all necessary data to the main data-base by themselves," hopes Ullah. "We are also looking into developing a personal-identification-number (PIN) for each case, which will allow access to data under the certain PIN," he cited. Such validation will also allow any correction, or in that case, any necessary changes required to be made to a particular client-record.

GMS is assigned to provide software development services, hardware installation and maintenance, wireless network and internet connectivity establishment, training, and other system integration aspects towards the project.