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.

Deadline for the application submission has been extended to 16th July 2010

Due to popular demand the committee has decided to extend the deadline for submission of applications to the 16th of July 2010. Please note this will be the final extension and we kindly advice you to get applications in on time to avoid disappointed.

NBQSA 2010 Call for Applications


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National Best Quality Software Awards 2010

By Vajeendra S Kandegamage, Chairman - NBQSA 2010 Organizing Committee

12th National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition is planning to be held during the first week of October this year. It has been identified as the only outstanding ICT event in Sri Lanka which recognizes, benchmarks, evaluates innovative Sri Lankan ICT products. NBQSA is organized annually by BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT - Sri Lanka section.

NBQSA winners bring recognition to Sri Lanka at APICTA 2009

NBQSA 2009 winners won special merit awards at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards competition held from 14 - 17 December 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

NBQSA 2009 - 11 Years of Recognising Local ICT Innovation

By : Nilu Rajapakse

NBQSA 2009 Awards Night and Gala Dinner was held at grand scale on 16th October 2009, at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla. Starting with only a few participants back in 1998, today NBQSA features forty innovative ICT products competing in fourteen categories and seventy tertiary student projects, all competing to win the overall Gold trophy.

NBQSA 2009 Today!

NBQSA 2009 Awards Night and Gala Dinner will be held today at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla. This is the 11th time NBQSA is being held after starting with only a few participants back in 1998.

Today NBQSA features forty innovative ICT products competing in fourteen categories and seventy tertiary student projects, all competing to win the overall Gold trophy. NBQSA is the only national event which enables ICT professionals and companies to showcase their products in the National arena and obtain the NBQSA seal of excellence.

IMPORTANT: Tertiary Student Projects Judging

Tertiary Student Projects Category judging will commence on 7th September 2009 and continue on 8th. The venue is ADMTC Lab, 3rd Floor, University of Colombo School of Computing. The list of projects shortlisted are available here. The time schedule and instructions for participants are available here.

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NBQSA Showcases Sri Lankan ICT Talent

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.