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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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