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Title-5: Technology driven Terrorism in Bangladesh: emerging patterns, factors affecting the usages and responses to the misuse of new technologies. Background: The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has increased the opportunities to the terrorist and violent extremist groups and networks to advance their criminal activities. These groups are increasingly using new technologies to organize, plan, finance, perpetrate and broadcast attacks. Council of Europe (2025) studied the emerging patterns of the misuse of new technology and found that social media platforms, terrorist-hosted websites, the decentralized web, the dark web, generative Artificial Intelligence (Al) are all playing critical roles in the radicalisation and recruitment process of terrorist activities.
During the Dhaka attack in 2016 which was perpetrated by the IS supported neo-JMB, Bangladesh witnessed how the terrorists did do live streaming of attacks and sharing of manifestos online before and aftermath of the attack. Although many of these technologies provide benefits in the field of counter-terrorism to the government, their actual or potential misuse by terrorist/extremist actors often slow integration of new technologies within policy and operational responses leading to becoming major concerns for practitioners, policy makers and the broad array of entities involved in counter-terrorism today not only in Bangladesh but across the globe. In effect, these remain threatening to our national security and democratic system.
In this backdrop, it is imperative to identify the main usage patterns of terrorists' misuse of technology, and vulnerabilities and risks associated with these developments, the findings. of which will inform the policy makers in Bangladesh to formulate a framework on how to monitor, disrupt, and intercept terrorist activity and mitigate these risks in a holistic way.
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Experience, Resources and
delivery capacity required : |
1. The organization and Chief Researcher must have a minimum of 3 (three) years of research experience.
2. Research experience as the Chief Executive of a firm; Educational qualifications of the Chief Executive of the firm as per Bangladesh Police Gobeshona Nitimala, 2018.
3. Experience Certificate & Resumes of the Chief Researcher(s), Researcher(s) & Research Associate(s) must be attached along with Letters of Consent to participate in and conduct the research.
4.Relevant Publications of the firm & Researcher must be attached, including references (books, articles, and research papers).
5. Capacity of the firm, including infrastructure, logistics and transportation facilities, office equipment (e.g., photocopiers and scanners), and the number of researchers and supporting personnel.
6. Attested copies of all relevant documents mentioned above must be submitted in e-GP System.
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| Other details (if applicable) : |
Research proposals, prepared in English, must include the following components:
(I) Title of the Research;(II) Abstract/Executive Summary;(III) Introduction; (IV) Problem Statement;(V) Research Rationale;(VI) Research Question(s) and Objective(s);(VII) Scope of the Research;(VIII) Literature Review;(IX) Research Methodology;(X) Chapter Outline;(XI) Timeline ;(XII) Conclusion; and (XIII) References.
(a) EoI proposals must be accompanied by a cover letter addressed to the official inviting this Expression of Interest (EoI) (please see the details provided below).
(b) A separate title page and the curriculum vitae (CV) of the researcher(s) must be attached to the research proposal.
(c) The proposed Expression of Interest (EoI) must correspond to one of the research titles specified above.
(d) Incomplete EoIs shall not be considered.
(e) The Research firm & EoIs shall be reviewed, shortlisted, selected in accordance with the provisions of the PPA-2006, PPR-2025 and Bangladesh Police Gobeshona Nitimala, 2018
(f) Shortlisted research firms shall be required to present their proposed research before the selection committee through the designated researcher(s) prior to final selection and Chief Researcher presence is msndatory during presentation.
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