APICTA 2012: ADAcode takes coveted 'best of the best' award
- Themed ‘Stimulating Creativity, Innovation and Excellence in ICT,’ 39% growth in submissions from final year
- Winners and benefit recipients to represent Malaysia at International APICTA Awards in Brunei on Dec five
MOBILE telecommunications answers company ADAcode Systems Sdn Bhd beat out 31 different category contenders to win the coveted Best of the Best, Prime Minister Award at this year’s MSC Malaysia Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) awards.
With the subject matter ‘Stimulating Creativity, Innovation and Excellence in ICT’ once more, the 2012 ICT Awards saw 342 entries submitted, a 39% growth over final yr. With 18 categories representing numerous additives of ICT (statistics and communications technology), the awards are opened now not simplest to local ICT agencies, but also people and students.
This yr also saw a brand new class, “Best of Sustainability and Green IT,” MDeC stated in a assertion.
Beyond 14 character category winners, 18 participants were also chosen as Merit recipients within their respective categories.
“The MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards is the appropriate platform to domesticate a steady circulate of innovators, technopreneurs, thinkers, and visionaries,” Datuk Seri Maximus Johnity Ongkili, Malaysia’s Minister of Science, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI), said on the awards presentation rite.
“These individuals are capable of appearance beyond the kingdom of the kingdom’s ICT enterprise and execute projects for themselves, their groups and their community, on the way to make Malaysia a pressure to be reckoned with globally,” he stated.
MDeC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali stated that “The APICTA Awards stay the nice opportunity for neighborhood ICT heroes to showcase their answers and recognize the capability they maintain not only for themselves, however for the nation as a whole.
“The APICTA Awards is … additionally a renowned worldwide degree for Malaysians to be diagnosed for their innovation, creativity and capacity to take wonderful ideas and turn them into answers and offerings of outstanding nice,” he brought.
ADAcode became based through serial marketers Azli Paat and Stephen Chia. Its patented ADAcode mobile generation platform has been in development for beyond 365 days and has due to the fact that garnered over 315,000+ customers (with unique cell numbers) and has been piloted via various government groups for specific packages and answers, consistent with MDeC.
Azli become previously the founding father of Dapat Vista Sdn Bhd, winner of the APICTA 2008 e-Community & Prime Minister’s Choice Awards for his RakanCop SMS e-network assignment, which has over 650,000 registered users. He also championed the implementation of the unified shortcode 15888 for all Malaysian authorities businesses.
The tremendous winners have been as follows: -
• Best of E-Government – ADAcode (ADAcode Systems Sdn Bhd). Also recipient of the ‘Best of the Best’ Prime Minister’s Award
• Best of Sustainability and Green IT – High Precise Forest Monitoring (Cube Global Sdn Bhd)
• Best of Media and Entertainment – Masatu (Agmo Studio Sdn Bhd)
• Best of Start-Up Companies – Piktochart Sdn Bhd
- Best of Tertiary Student Project- Software/Hardware – Asia Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI)
• Best of Primary Student Projects – Urban Landscape of Putrajaya (SK Putrajaya Presint 11[1])
Piktochart turned into the grand winner of StartupMalaysia.org’s entrepreneurship program that started out with the Silicon Valley Comes To Malaysia conference and pitching contest that kicked off on October remaining 12 months.
The APICTA winners and benefit recipients were decided on by a panel of judges such as local industry experts and ICT thought leaders.
Leading the judging panel was Stan Singh-Jit, chairman of the judging committee and handling director of Wincor Nixdorf Retail Solutions (M) Sdn Bhd; Niran Noor, co-chairman and vice chairman of MDeC; Burhanuddin Md. Radzi, handling director of Les' Copaque Production Sdn Bhd; Chu Hong Keong, leader facts officer (Information Technology) at HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad; Assoc. Prof. Datin Dr Norizan Abdul Razak, head, e-Community Research Center of Excellence Bridging Digital Divide (CoE-BDD), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; and others.
Nominees of the MSC Malaysia APICTA Awards were educated via the MDeC-Cradle Collaboration, Coach and Grow Program (CGP) which makes a speciality of established education via marketers, which is then personalised to each corporation, character or college, MDeC stated.
This is achieved to raise the great level of pitches by way of individuals and ultimately increase their chances of winning. Only the pinnacle 30% of the nominees will receive in addition coaching wherein their solutions are then tagged directly to KPIs (key performance indicators) and approaches to enable easier monitoring and guide during the implementation method.
All MSC Malaysia APICTA winners will cross on to represent Malaysia at this 12 months’s International APICTA Awards so one can be held in Brunei Darussalam on Dec five.
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