NagorikBD was created to close a simple gap: citizens across Bangladesh often struggle to find timely, trustworthy information from a public service system spread across hundreds of disconnected websites and offices. It brings citizen services, climate and disaster intelligence, local government information, and an AI assistant into one coherent, district-by-district experience.
The platform is developed by Atlas AI Institute as a flagship demonstration of what responsible, applied AI governance can look like when it moves from research into daily civic life. Rather than treating artificial intelligence as an abstract policy subject, NagorikBD uses it as working infrastructure — answering citizen questions, surfacing weather and river data, and organizing public information into a form people can actually use.
Open data sits at the center of this approach. Wherever possible, NagorikBD sources, structures, and republishes public information transparently, so it can be verified, reused, and improved by others. Combined with an evidence-based approach to what gets built and where, this positions NagorikBD not as a single product, but as a growing layer of digital public infrastructure for the country — one that institutions, researchers, and citizens can build on together.