Belize wins digital champion award at World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2023

Published by BBNTEAM at March 15, 2023

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Posted: Wednesday, March 15, 2023. 1:46 pm CST.

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Belize has won a digital champion’s award at the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland.

On November 28, 2022, Belize launched the Online Business Registry System (OBRS), which was selected as the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) 2023 Champion in category 7 – E-Business-ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life.

The WSIS Prizes 2023 ceremony for Champions took place earlier today at the Geneva International Congress Center.

OBRS was created with the vision to digitally transform business registration, thereby enhancing the accessibility of business registration services, modernizing business registration products, improving data integrity and raising the awareness of the value of business creation to the economy.

Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Economic Development, Dr. Osmond Martinez, Director General/Registrar of the Financial Services Commission of Belize, Claude Haylock and Project Manager at FSC, Yuri Alpuche received the award.

The Ministry of Economic Development noted that winning the Champion award is a major accomplishment for Belize and stakeholders involved in the execution of the project.

WSIS represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ICT for development communities and creates an effective mechanism to evaluate projects and activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development.

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