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BCC gets Open Group Awards for Innovation, Excellence
DHAKA, Jan 22, 2018 (BSS)- Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) has been given ‘Open Group Awards for Innovation and Excellence-2018’ for developing Bangladesh National Enterprise Architecture (BNEA) aimed at making interoperable of government information and services.
The Open Group, a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through technology standards, has informed it to Deputy Director of Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC Tarique M Barkatullah on January 16 about conferring president’s award to BCC for Government Enterprise Architecture category for its innovation and excellence.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology of India Ravi Shankar Prasad is expected to formally hand over the award to representative of BCC on February 22 at Leela Palace, Bangalore of India, said Business Development Manager of Open Group Hetal Sompura in a letter.
The Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC of ICT Division and UK based Ernst and Young (EY) have developed BNEA for making interoperable of government information and services and available those from a single platform.
The Open Group gave award to organizations and individuals for innovations and excellence in categories including Enterprise Architecture, IT management, Security and Open Platform.
The Open Group Expert Panel selected BCC after a rigorous process and evaluating innovations of large number of governments, industries and academia from Asia, Australia, Africa and Middle East besides from various States of India.
The Open Group Awards for Innovation and Excellence is limited to two distinct levels and President’s awards goes to those nominations in which innovation and excellence were clearly demonstrated.
“The award of distinction goes to those nominations in which a clear path towards effective innovative and excellent use of technology has been taken, but the full benefits are yet to be realized,” said Sompura.
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