Ms. Aishath Malika Ibrahim Receives the National Award for Special Achievement


The President of the Republic of Maldives, H. E. Maumoon Abdul Qayoom has awarded Ms. Aishath Malika Ibrahim, the National Award for Special Achievement.

The Award was presented to her on November 17, 2003, at the official function held to commemorate the Republic Day 2003, where the President gave away Government's Awards for Outstanding Service to the Public and for Special Achievement’. The National Award for Special achievement is awarded to those who achieve distinction for the country from abroad.

Ms. Malika received this award in recognition of her achieving the first place on the MSc Information Systems Management Course at South Bank University for the academic year 2000/01.

Her dissertation and research was based, predominantly on electronic government, in which she has proposed a structural model for e-government for Maldives – a model which could be emulated to transform a small island nation like Maldives from a ‘paper’ government to a ‘paperless’ or a ‘modern’ electronic government.

Ms. Aishath Malika Ibrahim joined the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology (MCST) on April 27, 1999 as a Program Officer. Under MCST’s capacity building programme, she was awarded this fellowship under a grant aid received from ADB. She left for her masters studies on September 13, 2000.

After successful completion of her studies, Ms. Mailka returned to Maldives on 24 October 2001, and is presently employed at MCST as the Assistant Director in charge of Information Technology. She is currently leading the team that is working on formulating the National ICT Policy.