The journey of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication has been recognized by United Nations World Summit on the Information Society. BNNRC has been chosen for the prizes on account of its high standard of program, innovation and strong leadership exceptional commitments for promoting media development/community media/community radio development/ICT4D/building knowledge society for contributing towards voices of the voiceless people & voices to be heard.

The UN General Assembly Resolution 56/183 (21 December 2001) endorsed the holding of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in two phases. The first phase took place in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003 and the second phase took place in Tunis, from 16 to 18 November 2005.

The WSIS Prizes contest was developed in response to requests from the WSIS stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate projects and activities that leverage the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to advance sustainable development. Since its inception, the contest of WSIS Prizes has attracted more than 300,000 stakeholders.

Following the outcomes of the United Nations General Assembly Overall Review on WSIS (Res. A/70/125) that called for a close alignment between the WSIS Process and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Res. A/70/1), the WSIS Prizes is the unique global platform to identify and showcase success stories in the implementation of the WSIS Action Lines and SDGs.

We are so grateful to BNNRC Board of Trust, Ministry of Information, NGO-Affairs Bureau, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Information Commission, Development Partners, Community Radio Initiating organization, Academia, Media, Politics and 1000 youth and youth women broadcasters & our beloved family members.

We reiterate our commitment to strive even harder to serve and create platform for the voices of the voiceless people through promoting community media/media development in Bangladesh.