Bangladesh wins WSIS Award fourth time in a row

Staff Correspondent: For the fourth consecutive year, Bangladesh has won the world’s most prestigious award for excellence in information technology - the “World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)” award – for innovative initiatives of Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office supported by UNDP & USAID.

Kabir Bin Anwar, director of the Prime Minister Office (PMO), also project director of a2i programme, received the award at the headquarters of International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva of Switzerland on Tuesday.

Kabir Bin Anwar himself confirmed the news on Wednesday.

Every year, WSIS honors the ICT-based technological innovations and related services that promote basic and human welfare.


risingbd/Dhaka/June 14, 2017/Hassan/A K Azad