Pakistan Wins 2 Gold, 5 Silver Awards at APICTA 2011

By Yasir Ameen

Pakistan ICT companies were declared winner for seven categories with securing two gold and five silver awards in Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards.

Pakistan walked away with two golds in the e-Health and e-Logistics & SCM categories and 5 silvers in the Communication, Financial, Security, E-Inclusion & E-Community and E-Government categories.

The Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) once again swept the Awards with the gold in e-Health and the silver in Communication, Security and E-Government categories. Lumensoft Technologies went for gold in the e-Logistics category with Infotech Group taking the silver in the Financial Apps category and Engro-Orix taking the silver in the E-Inclusion & E-Community category.

Pakistan was amongst the leaders at the APICTA event this evening. It left behind countries like Hong Kong, Australia and Malaysia.

Team Pakistan comprised of 18 products which were benchmarking themselves with 162 competing products from the Asia Pacific region. 48 judges spent two long days evaluating and assessing the “best of the best” from the region.

Pakistan’s 13 ICT companies and 2 universities are contesting for 17 different categories of Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards being held in (Pattaya) Thailand.

The name of participating companies and categories they were contesting are

- GeniTeam Pvt Limited for Digital Media & Entertainment Applications Category

- Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) for E-Government Applications, Communications, e-Health Applications, Tools & Infrastructure Applications and Security Applications Categories

-TunaCode Pvt Ltd. For Research & Development Applications Category

-Cloud BPO Pvt Ltd for Research & Development Applications Category

-Evamp & Saanga for  Industrial Applications Category

- Lumensoft Pvt Ltd for E-Logistics & Supply Chain Management Applications

- Toffee TV for E-Learning Applications Category

­ -Infotech Pvt Limited for Financial Applications Category

- Engro Foods & Orix Leasing Pakistan for 12.  e-Inclusion & E-Community  Applications Category

-Farhan Masood for e-Inclusion & E-Community Applications Category

-Five Rivers Technologies – Pepper.pk for Best Mobile Application Category

-Institute of Space & Technology – Syed Akhlaq Hussain Shah for Best in Tertiary Student Project Category

- NED University – Moneeb Ahmed Usmani & team for Best in Tertiary Student Project Category