ICTA promotes quality software

14-Oct-2009

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has taken steps to promote the development of quality software at national level.

As part of this move ICTA will partner at national level with the National Best Quality Software Award (NBQSA) competition.

The National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) competition is an annual event organised by the British Computer Society Sri Lanka (BCSSL) Section.

ICTA, being the apex body mandated for making the benefits of ICT accrue to the people under the e-Sri Lanka initiative realises the role of quality software. In implementing 'e-Sri Lanka' as a national development initiative, ICTA tries to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to make people's lives more comfortable and quality software is pivotal in this endeavour.

The objective of the e-Sri Lanka initiative is to help people by developing the economy of Sri Lanka by the use of ICT. This leads to the reduction of poverty and improvement of the quality of people's lives. ICTA aims at carrying out its role in the 'e-Sri Lanka' development initiative by harnessing ICT as a lever for economic and social advancement and taking the dividends of ICT to every village, citizen and business and to re-engineer the way Government thinks and works.

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.

This year the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) will be presented to the winners of the NBQSA 2009 competition at a ceremony at the Waters' Edge Hotel on October 16. The objectives of NBQSA competition come within the scope of the e-Sri Lanka initiative.