At the 10th International Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Pakistan team had seven reasons to smile. Out of 16 APICTA categories the P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES) delegation picked up 7 Merit Awards (the APICTA Silver equivalent).
These included Merit Awards in Security Applications, E-Inclusion and E-Community, Financial Applications, Communications, E-Government and E-Health categories. In the last three years P@SHA delegations to APICTA have been making their presence felt but this is the first year in the history of the APICTA Awards that the Pakistan name was called 7 times across 6 diverse categories. The Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) won the Merit Award in E-Government, Security and Communications with Avanza winning the Merit in the highly competitive Financial Category and CureMD winning the Merit in the E-Health Category. Aerocar and Solotech showed that Pakistani software companies are also looking at the unserved markets. They both won the Merit Award in the E-Inclusion & E-Community Category.
“We have always known that Pakistani technology companies are doing great work for customers in Pakistan and globally so this simply is an acknowledgement of their hard work and credentials at an international level by an international panel of respected judges”, said Jehan Ara, President P@SHA at the closing ceremony of the APICTA Awards in Kuala Lumpur. There were a total of 180 nominations across 16 categories for this year’s APICTA Awards.
Given below is the list of Asia Pacific ICT Awards Merit Awards from Pakistan from the Kula Lumpur event where Dr. Mahatir Mohammed was the Chief Guest and the recipient of the first ever APICTA Life Time Achievement Award.
Security Application – Silver, Merit
Product: 10G VoIP Monitoring Solution
CARE (Center for Advanced Research in Engineering)
e-Health Application – Silver, Merit
Product: CureMD
Cure MD Pvt Ltd
E-Inclusion and E-Community – Silver, Merit
Product: Automated Business Machines
Aerocar Transaction Machines
E-Inclusion and E-Community Application – Silver, Merit
Product: Touch XS
Solo Tech
Financial Industry Applications – Silver, Merit
Product: Rendezvous 4.0
Avanza Solutions
Communications – Silver, Merit
Product: Software Defined Radio
CARE (Center for Advanced Research in Engineering)
E-Government – Silver, Merit
Product: CARE Digital Radio Surveillance Equipment
CARE (Center for Advanced Research in Engineering)
The email acknowledges the judges who represented Pakistan at APICTA:
- Jawwad Ahmed Farid, CEO, Alchemy Technologies
- Zafar Khan, Co-Founder, Sofizar
- Yusuf Jan, Co-Founder, Mixit Technologies
- Badar Khushnood, Pakistan Consultant, Google
If you could have seen the amount of work these mentors and judges put into preparing the candidates for their presentations, you would have felt very proud. We must also acknowledge the following people who helped with the initial training in Pakistan:
- Zia Imran, MD, PSEB
- Nadeem Aslam Malik, VP, Infotech
- Adnan Agboatwalla, Co-Founder, PixSense (and twice APICTA winner)
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