Bangladesh, June 28 -- The platform, bridgetobd.org, was launched at an event hosted by Oxfam at a hotel in Dhaka, attended by senior government officials, diplomats, development partners, representatives of UN agencies, civil society leaders, academics, private sector representatives, and members of the diaspora.

Describing it as the country's first institutionally anchored diaspora engagement platform, Oxfam said Bridge to Bangladesh serves as a digital ecosystem-accessible via both a website and mobile application-that seeks to convert informal diaspora contributions into structured, transparent, and long-term collaboration.

The platform is expected to connect more than 2.4 million Bangladeshis living abroad with verified organizati...