NBQSA-Sri Lanka

By Vajeendra S Kandegamage - Chairman, NBQSA 2009

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 fulfils a much needed requirement of the software industry in this highly competitive globalist 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.

Sri Lanka won 5 awards at the Asia Pacific Information Communication Technology Alliances (APICTA) Annual Competition and Awards 2008 at the awarding ceremony held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 15th November, bringing great honour to Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka stood the test of not only the highest calibre of the contestants placed before this prestigious international competition, but also proved the excellent judging and selection process as five out of the 11 nominees from Sri Lanka were placed at the APICTA in the same order of ranking as was awarded at the national event.

by Vajeendra S Kandegamage, Chairman-NBQSA 2008

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 globalised 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.
 

The final round of judging is to happen on the 5th of September, 2008 at the ADTMC Lab, 3rd Floor - University of Colombo School of Computing.

If you are among the selected groups for this round, please make a note of the following guidelines.

You need to be present 30 minutes before your scheduled presentation time.

1. The criteria used for evaluation will be the APICTA criteria.

NBQSA 2008 judging process is to commence shortly starting from the 2nd of September 2008. The list of tertiary teams/participants and the schedule for demonstrating to the judging panel can be found in the attached pdf document.

If your a participant, then you should also download the Tertiary Rules and Instructions pdf document.

The Application closing deadline for BCS NBQSA 2008 has been extended till the 5th of August 2008, 12:30pm. This decision was made due to the security situation put in place during the SAARC conference.

The National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition,being the only National competition of its type in Sri Lanka recognizing exceptional local ICT achievements, will mark its Tenth Anniversary this year.

Articles are now invited from individuals and institutions, in related topics, for the the special souvenir booklet of NBQSA 2008.

Who Can Submit?

o BCS Members
o Academia and Professionals from the ICT Industry
o Any other interested parties

Criteria and Selection

o A maximum 2000 words.
o Articles are subject to review and approval

Application closing deadline for BCS NBQSA 2008 has been extended till the 31st of July.

The British Computer Society Sri Lanka Section is pleased to announce that applications are called for the National Best Quality Software Awards - 2008 competition. The NBQSA 2008 marks its 10^th Anniversary this year and will be held on 17^th October 2008. The application closing date is 15^th July 2008.

Winners of NBQSA 2008 will be eligible to participate in APICTA 2008 competition in November 2008.

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.