Introduction

LSB is the official link shortener for the Bangladesh government. This guide contains detailed information about LSB.

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What is LSB?

LSB is the official Bangladesh government link shortener, built by the Open Government Products team in GovTech and modified by a2i, Bangladesh.

There are multiple reasons why we built an official government link shortener:

• URLs are too long to fit into tweets or SMSes, and difficult to remember

• Email clients might block other commercial link shorteners if they are listed as spam on their site

• Citizens are afraid of phishing when receiving a shortened link and unsure of where it goes

• With LSB, citizens are safe in the knowledge that the links are official. Any public officer can log in with their government emails and immediately create short links with the official gov.bd domain.

Who can use LSB?

Any public officer with an email ending in .gov.bd can login with their email. They will receive a One Time Password that is sent to that email.