BSS-45 Bangladesh’s blockchain platform wins int’l award

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Bangladesh’s blockchain platform wins int’l award

DHAKA, April 16, 2019 (BSS)-A government blockchain platform has been selected for

prestigious Enterprise Blockchain Award in services, platforms and solutions category

in an international competition held in the first week of April in Toronto, Canada.

Informing this to Executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC)

Parthapratim Deb through e-mail Blockchain Revolution Global (BRG), a worldwide

enterprise leadership community for blockchain, has invited BCC to attend the

blockchain conference and prize distribution programme to be held in Toronto of Canada

on April 24-25, said a press release here today.

The blockchain platform, developed by BCC, an affiliated organization of ICT

Division to preserve the online systems and services more securely, has been selected

for the award facing a competition with internationally reputed IT giants like IBM,

Accenture, Microsoft, HCL Technologies.

“Nomination for international award about the activities on emerging technologies

like blockchain proves Bangladesh’s capability to face the challenges and utilize

prospects of fourth industrial revolution,” said Parthapratim.

He said blockchain is being considered as most secured technology in the world and

BCC has successfully developed the blockchain platform to connect the online systems

and services with it aimed at preserving the documents more securely.

“The BCC’s blockchain platform will primarily check the use of fake certificates,

admit cards,” Parthapartim said, adding that steps will be taken to encourage the

public and private universities and the government organizations to preserve their

certificates in the blockchain platform.

A Bangladesh National Digital Architecture (BNDA) team of Leveraging ICT for Growth,

Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC provided technical cooperation to

develop the blockchain platform.

“Initially two systems/services — training management system of BKIICT and Online

Recruitment System of BCC have been connected with the blockchain platform,” Deputy

Director of LICT project Tarique M Barkatullah said, adding that the certificates of

training programmes and admit cards for recruitment exams are being preserved with

foolproof security.

He said the authenticity of information of certificates and admit cards can be

verified through mobile phone. The e-pension system of Primary and Mass Education

Directorate is being connected to the blockchain platform of BCC, Tarique added.

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