The tertiary student project of Nuwan Senaratna from University of Colombo won the gold at NBQSA 2006, surpassing 78 entries that included those from the University of Moratuwa, the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and the Informatics Institute of Technology. As a result, it was selected to represent Sri Lanka in the same category at APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) 2006 in Taipa, Macao which consisted of 18 entries from 15 countries, including tech-giants like Australia, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
The National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition is an annual event organized by the British Computer Society Sri Lanka (BCSSL) Section.
The avowed objectives of the NBQSA competition are threefold : To provide recognition to outstanding achievements of individuals and organizations in Sri Lanka who/which have contributed to the development of ICT, to create a window to gain international recognition for locally developed ICT products and to improve standards and the quality of local ICT products and services to be able to compete in the international market place.
The Showcase of ICT Products of Sri Lanka
The British Computer Society Sri Lanka Section is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the National Best Quality Software Awards 2007 competition. This is an invitation for you to enter the competition.
The competition is open to organisations, groups and individuals in Sri Lanka having Software products developed in the country. Download application forms and apply before the closing date.
The competition is being conducted for sixteen Award Categories ranging from Applications and Infrastructure Tools to In-House Applications.
National Best Quality Software Awards 2007
By
Suresh Hettiarachchi
The National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition is an annual event organized by the British Computer Society Sri Lanka (BCSSL) Section. The competition serves to showcase and benchmark Sri Lankan ICT products, which fulfills a much needed requirement of the software industry in this highly competitive globalized economic structure. The competition has been conducted by the BCS Sri Lanka Section since 1998 to recognize and honor significant technological developments in the software industry.
NBQSA 2007 Winners for the APICTA 2007 in Singapore
By Suresh Hettiarachchi – Chairman, NBQSA 2007 Organizing Committee
Winners of the National Best Quality Software Awards competition 2007 conducted by the Sri Lanka Section of the British Computer Society will be eligible to compete in the Asia Pacific ICT (APICTA) Awards competition to be held in Singapore from 26th to 29th November, 2007.
