Bangladesh wins WSIS award for ICT, innovation

Bangladesh has won the world’s most prestigious IT and Innovation award ‘World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Prize-2018’ for fifth time for the Muktopaath (www.muktopaath.gov.bd), the national platform for e-Learning.

Muktopaath is aimed at imparting education to youth, women, professionals and expatriate workers online.

In addition, Access to Information (a2i) Programme and Dhaka Metropolitan Police have jointly won the WSIS Award for Online Police Clearance initiative funded by a2i’s Service Innovation Fund and implemented by DMP. Project Director of Access to Information (a2i) Programme Kabir Bin Anwar received the award from ITU’s Secretary General Houlin Zhao at the United Nation’s ICT-focused agency the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday. Harun Ar Rashid, Deputy Inspector General, and Md Ruhul Amin, Additional DIG (ICT), Bangladesh Police, received the WSIS Award for Online Police Clearance initiative.

Among Bangladesh delegates, Anir Chowdhury, Policy Advisor, a2i, Afzal Hossain Sarwar, Policy Specialist (Education Innovation), a2i, Dr Ramiz Uddin, Head of Results Management and Data, a2i, and Shahanur Sabbir, Policy Associate, a2i, were also present on the occasion.