BD awarded ‘WSIS Prize’
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Bangladesh has been awarded the prestigious ‘World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 2014 Prize’ at the WSIS+10 high-level event of International Telecommunication Union (ITU). State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak received the prize at the ITU headquarters in Geneva in a grand ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. Ministers and heads of UN organisations and civil society members were also present, said a Foreign Ministry media release on Tuesday. This award is a tribute to the government’s outstanding achievements within a short span of five years in bringing fundamental changes in providing services to citizen’s doorsteps towards the pursuit of good governance, according to UNB.