Investigations into corruption allegations against them are going on

Though the government allocates Tk 100 crore in the national budget every year for the development of women entrepreneurship, not a single penny of this money gets used as the entrepreneurs lack awareness on how to ensure optimum utilisation of the fund.

Two initiatives of Aspire to Innovate-a2i named ‘National Intelligence Employment and Entrepreneurship (NISE)’ and ‘Muktopaath’ have recently won the WITSA 2023 Global Innovation and Technology Excellence Award from the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), an alliance of information technology sector organisations from various countries.

An initiative of Aspire to Innovate (a2i) called 'ekShop' has recently won the United Nations ‘SDG Digital GameChangers Award’. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) jointly awarded ekShop the winner of the 'Game Changer for Prosperity' category.

The Aspire to Innovate (a2i) programme of ICT Division and Zaytoon Business Solutions today joined hands to launch “village digital booths” across the country, enabling marginalised people to avail a number of financial services right from their neighbourhoods.