Bangladesh bags 4 prizes including Silver in IIBCOL 2021

Bangladesh successfully concluded the 3-day "International Blockchain Olympiad 2021 (IBCOL 2021)". The much-anticipated Olympiad, which started in Hong Kong was held in Bangladesh for the first time outside of Hong Kong. In this year's event, Bangladesh won a total of 4 awards in 1 silver, 2 categories and 1 prototype category. In the Identity & Privacy category, Hong Kong's "HelpProof" Gold Medal winner won 10,000 US Dollars. In addition, Bangladesh's "Hopefully Hypothetically Theoretically" in the FinTech category received 7,500 US Dollars in the Silver Medal Award and Vietnam's "VifaChain" in the Supply chain category received 5,000 US Dollars in the Bronze Medal Award. Other categories include Rocket of Bangladesh in e-Governance, Brogrammers of Bangladesh in Document Authentication, Fidello of Hong Kong in FinTech, LifeLink of Vietnam in HealthTech, KidKat of Vietnam in Identity & Privacy, Adarna of Philippines in EduTech, 2Lux of Hong Kong in Supply Chain and DU Nimbus of Bangladesh in the Prototype at FinTech category the name is announced. Each of these 8 category-based projects will receive a prize of 2,500 US Dollars.

Silver prize winners Hopefully Hypothetically Theoretically team members are Mr. Fahim Murshed, Mr. Tasin Ishmam, Mr. Aftarul Islam and Mr. Aniruddha Ganguly. Silver prize winners Hopefully Hypothetically Theoretically team members are Mr. Fahim Murshed, Mr. Tasin Ishmam, Mr. Aftarul Islam and Mr. Aniruddha Ganguly. Rocket team members are Mr. Naweed Kabir, Afnan Faruk, Mr. Tahsinur Rahman and Baha Uddin Khan Sayem. Brogrammers members are Mr. Md. Ataur Rahman, Ms. Mst. Sadia Afrin, Mr. Mahabub Alah and Mr. Md. Abul Hasan. DU Nimbus team members are Mr. Tahlil, Mr. Md. Atiquer Rahman, Mr. Mridha MD. Nafis Fuad and Mr. Mohammad Sohrawardy

The Olympiad started its journey with an inaugural ceremony on 8 October and continued till 10 October 2021. This year, among other events, a total of 4 seminars on CBDC and Cryptocurrency, e-Governance, Identity and Privacy and Fintech were organized. A total of 12 countries participated in this global competition. Over the last 3 days, many national and international blockchain experts have joined the event as judges and speakers. Finally, the International Blockchain Olympiad 2021 concluded with an excellent musical performance by the popular Bangladeshi band "Miles" on Sunday night, October 10, 2021. In the end, State Minister for ICT Division Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak officially handed over the prizes among the winners of "IBCOL 2021". Prizes figuring more than 40,000 US Dollars were awarded to the winners. Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards were given as thematic prizes along with 8 categories of prizes. The Executive Director and Additional Secretary of BCC Dr. Md Abdul Mannan presided over the program while the Chairman of IBCOL 2021 Organizing Committee and the Founder & CEO of Technohaven Company Ltd. Mr. Habibibullah N Karim, The Convener of the BCOLBD & Distinguished Professor of CSE of BRAC University Dr. Mohammad Kaykobad was also present at the program as a guest.