In a letter on Tuesday, the authorities of the Open Group informed the BCC about the winning of the two prestigious awards.

The ‘Open Group Kochi Awards 2019’ was given for developing e-recruitment system while the `Open Group Award for Innovation and Excellence-2019’ for developing GeoDASH platform to share and collaborate geospatial data for government agencies,” the letter reads.

It says Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Pinarayi Vijayan is expected to formally hand over the awards to BCC representative on February 14 next at Grand Hyatt Kochi Bolgatty, India.

The Open Group Expert Panel selected BCC’s two innovative platforms 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 Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of BCC of ICT Division developed the e-recruitment system for making the recruitment process of all government agencies online.

The geospatial data sharing platform GeoDASH for government agencies was also developed by BCC in collaboration with World Bank.

Last year BCC was awarded Open Group President Award 2018 for developing Bangladesh National Enterprise Architecture to make interoperable of government’s information and date from a single platform.