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Achia Nila
Achia Nila is the founder, Women In Digital – Empowerment through Technology. She is a Computer engineer. More than 15 years she has been working in the IT industry. She was working for different multinational companies and now she is running her own IT company with 25 women engineers.
She has served in some of the internationally recognized organizations such as Dell, Microsoft, HP, Epson, Colgate, HillsPet, J&J, HTC, HSBC, Vodafone, Sony, Unilever, Betfair and Nokia etc. As a local product, she has successfully launched Maya apa Mobile application. Her expertise are IT product development (like, web, mobile app, AI Data Science and game) and Product management, project management, team lead etc.
Besides her Tech business, she has joined as an international IT expert for the International Telecommunication Union She is also working as a consultant for government projects and donor agencies and Women Who Code as a Country Director.
She has arranged the “National Hackathon for Women” 1st time in Bangladesh and so many tech competitions for women. Her organization run an accelerator program for women named “Digital Innovation Challenge for Women”
In 2019 She has been selected for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in the U.S. The International Visitor Leadership Program is designed to provide foreign leaders and scholars with the opportunity to meet American colleagues and become better acquainted with the United States.
2020 & Achievement’s
- Received Acumen fellowship
- Attended WOW festival by British Council
- Award Received from
- World Pulse #SheTransformsTech Featured Changemaker!
- International Telecommunication Union EQUALS – Innovation Challenge 2020, Project: Empowering girls and women through technology and making them financial empower through mobile internet
- Women Who Code Honorary Global Changemaker
- Director-General, Bangladesh, GCPIT
She is Hon. Director-General, Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Bangladesh