APICTA 2015:

Team Pakistan bags four awards

Team Pakistan won three Golds and one Silver at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2015 in Colombo on Monday.

Minister for Telecom and Digital Infrastructure, Harin Fernando was the chief guest. The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Maj Gen (Retd) Syed Shakeel Hussain was also present.

The Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA) delegation (Team Pakistan) comprised 50 members with 22 technology products, and competed for the APICTA awards against 197 products from 17 countries in the region.

Leading the way with the Gold was the team from Eyedeus Labs for its new product 'Ingrain', Evamp and Sanga for mobile audio streaming service and students from the NUST College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering for the research project on intelligent ankle foot prosthesis for trans-tibial amputees.

The Silver Award was won by a young team from The Nest i/o - P@SHA's Technology Incubator in Karachi for its project Teddict.

With the support of Samsung and Google for Entrepreneurs, P@SHA brought to Colombo, a number of young teams comprising Pakistani IT professionals to meet representatives of the best technology companies, professionals and students in the Asia Pacific, form potential partnerships with each other and to attract business and possible investment.

President, P@SHA, Jehan Ara said, "The P@SHA ICT Awards - a P@SHA signature event for the past 12 years, has provided a platform to show the world what technology companies and young people in Pakistan are capable of."

Immediate Past Chairman of P@SHA and a judge at the APICTA event, Dr. Shoab A. Khan said, "The standard of competition is improving each year."

The Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA) was founded in 1992. Today its membership includes over 450 of the country's largest software houses, product development centres, BPO companies, animation and new media studios and consulting and system integration companies.