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OBJECTIVES

All the objectives will be implemented after obtaining the necessary permission from theGovernment/concerned authority/competent authority. The objectives for which the Online News Portal Association of Bangladesh (ONAB) is established are: 1. To protect the interests of registered online news portals.

2. To protect the professional standards and interests of the members.

3. To organize literary cultural sports programs and other competitions and distribution of prizes for the entertainment of the members.

4. To help, support, and honor talented journalists in developing their creative creations.

5. To collect, store, and disburse books and papers required for professional reasons.

6. To set up own library, and make arrangements to store magazines and documents.

7. To arrange educational and recreational tours at home and abroad.

8. To provide emergency assistance to all permanent category members.

9. To arrange for the collection and preservation of permanent and temporary resources necessary for the development of the members.

10. To develop fraternal and cordial relations with other organizations / press clubs related to newspapers and conduct joint activities on necessary issues.

11. To take a firm stand and take necessary action in favor of justice and against injustice.

12. To create a common platform for online news portals to interact and network, in ways that are meaningful and affordable.

13. To raise awareness among online new portals about existing laws, policies, regulations, and related systems to abide by to ensure lawful and appropriate operations.

14. To protect the interests of online news portals and to foster friendly relationships between online news portals and stakeholders, bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues relating to online news portals, including those with policy-making power in both the public and private sectors, and to discuss, exchange information, address opportunities, risks, and challenges, and share good practices.

15. To interface with appropriate inter-governmental organizations, Government, Policy Makers, UN, CSOs, Industries, Academia, Technical Communities, Media, and other institutions on matters under their purview, and facilitate the exchange of information and best practices, and in this regard make full use of the expertise of the academic, scientific, and technical communities.

16. To identify emerging issues, bring them to the attention of the relevant bodies and the public, and, where appropriate, make recommendations, and regularly contribute to capacity building for online news portal governance, drawing fully on local, regional, and international sources of knowledge and expertise.

17. To promote and assess, on an ongoing basis, the harmonization with the national and global relevant bodies, discuss, inter alia, issues relating to critical resources, and help to find solutions to the issues arising from the use and misuse of the online news portal, of particular concern to everyday users.

18. To advance global knowledge and the sharing of best practices regarding online news portal to serve as a catalyst for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

19. To use its efforts to ensure that the online news portal is available to and resourced to all who wish to participate regardless of gender or age.

20. To promote integrity, and ethics, and institute strong measures and campaigns against wrongdoings.

21. To raise funds to finance activities of ONAB, purchase, hold or otherwise acquire any real property or any interest in the same which shall be for the benefit of ONAB, or calculated to promote or assist in the promotion of any of the objects of ONAB, improve, develop, manage, mortgage, lease, let or sell any real or personal property of the ONAB and turn the same to profit and advantage for the objects of ONAB, and do such things and apply such funds as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the above objects.

22. To strengthen cooperation across Governments, industry, experts, and civil society to elaborate and implement norms, guidelines, and principles relating to the responsible use of online news portal, and develop robust accountability criteria and standards for digital platforms and users to address disinformation and other harmful online content.

23. To collect and receive fees, honorarium, or other forms of payments for any service offered by the ONAB to accomplish any of its objects, pay money as fees, honorarium, remuneration, salary or in any other form for interventions or any other service received from individuals and organizations at home and abroad, receive grants, aid, or other assistance from any person(s), corporate body, development partners including-without limitation from private and public limited companies, societies and trusts registered by any law at home and abroad which may be conducive to the attainment of the objectives of the ONAB, give grants, aid or other assistance to person(s), co-operative societies, undertaking or associations of persons and local development agencies.

24.To promote and advance charity, welfare and well-being in and among communities and peoples of Bangladesh and other countries of the world, engage in charitable and welfare activities strictly on a non-profit basis and also take over similar projects from other organizations, carrying on such or similar objects, establish, undertake, superintend, administer, control, and contribute to any provident, benevolent or charitable funds, establish pension/provident fund/benevolent fund/group insurance and/or any other fund for the benefit of the employees of the ONAB and provide other amenities and facilities to them.

25.To nominate persons of high eminence in the society from Bangladesh and abroad as advisers to the ONAB Advisory Committee which shall advise the ONAB in furtherance of the mission and vision of the ONAB.