State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak received the award on behalf of Joy, who is also the ICT affairs adviser to the Prime Minister, at the World Congress on Information Technology in Dhaka on Thursday.
Sheikh Hasina won the award in 2010. The others who won the award include former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in 1997 and former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization, or ASOCIO, is a federation of ICT associations representing 24 economies throughout the Asia Pacific.