Four Lankans get merit awards at APICTA
The winners of the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2009
won special merit awards at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA)
Awards competition held from December 14-17 2009, in Melbourne,
Australia. This competition is annually held at one of the member
countries to identify and showcase the best ICT products in the Asia
Pacific region.
Nominees among the winners at the NBQSA competition are eligible to
participate at the APICTA Awards. NBQSA competition is organized by the
Sri Lanka Section of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT since 1998.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT is a professional body and a learned
society that represents those working in Information Technology. This
NBQSA competition is open for any Sri Lankan individual, groups or
organisations that have innovative ICT products developed in the
country. These ICT products could be Software, Hardware or a combination
both developed for local and global use.
APICTA Awards competition is conducted under sixteen categories and
each member country is eligible to nominate maximum of three products
for each category. After a rigorous judging process the winner of each
category is awarded a trophy and the 2nd placed product is awarded the
Merit Award if the difference of the points received by the 2nd is not
more than 5% of that of the winner.
Four Sri Lankan participants won Merit awards at the APICTA 2009
which is one of the highest number of merit awards won by any country
that participated APICTA 2009.
The officials and the judges who participated at the APICTA 2009
commented on the high level of quality achieved by the Sri Lankan ICT
products over the years.
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