Pakistan has won two gold and five silver awards at the 11th annual Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) in Pattaya, Thailand.
ICT firms from Pakistan secured two gold awards in the e-Health and e-Logistics & SCM categories, and five silver awards in the Communication, Financial, Security, e-Inclusion & e-Community and e-Government categories.
The Pakistani team had 18 products competing with 162 products from the Asia Pacific region.
The Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) once again swept the awards with gold in e-Health and silver in the Communication, Security and e-Government categories.
Lumensoft Technologies went for gold in the e-Logistics category, with the Infotech Group taking silver in the Financial Apps category and Engro-Orix taking silver in the e-Inclusion & e-Community category.
This is the second consecutive year that Pakistan’s ICT firms have stunned the world with their innovative and creative products and apps in different fields of life and businesses.
Pakistan ICT firms had grabbed seven awards out of 16 categories at the APICTA 2011 held in Malaysia. These included Runners up Awards in Security Applications, e-Inclusion and e-Community, Financial Applications, Communications, e-Government and e-Health categories.
Pakistan had been making their presence felt at APICTA for three years but had failed to make a mark in the renowned regional event.
The APICTA 2011 awards were announced by the Association of Thai ICT Industry and supported by the Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA).
Here is the list of APICTA Award winners from Pakistan:
Gold Awards:
Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) for e-Health Applications Category
Lumensoft Pvt Ltd for e-Logistics category
Silver Awards:
Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) for Security Applications Category
Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) for e-Government Category
Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE) for Communication Category
Infotech Pvt Limited for Financial Applications Category
Engro Foods & Orix Leasing Pakistan for e-Inclusion & e-Community Applications Category
The APICTA Awards were initiated to increase ICT awareness in the international community and to assist in bridging the digital divide.
The APICTA network has 16 member economies and provides an international awards program to showcase innovation, creativity and excellence in ICT in the Asia-Pacific region. APICTA’s member-economies include Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.
APICTA provides the region’s ICT entrepreneurs with valuable networking and product benchmarking opportunities, fosters ICT innovation and creativity, promotes economic and trade relations and facilitates technology transfer.
A version of this post originally appeared on ProPakistani.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکِستان) is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a 1,046-kilometre (650 mi) coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west,India in the east and China in the far northeast.[7] Tajikistan also lies very close to Pakistan but is separated by the narrow Wakhan Corridor. Strategically, Pakistan is located in a position between the important regions of South Asia, Central Asia and the greater Middle East.[8]
The region forming modern Pakistan was the site of several ancient cultures including theneolithic Mehrgarh and the bronze era Indus Valley Civilisation. Subsequently it was the recipient of Hindu, Persian, Indo-Greek, Islamic, Turco-Mongol, and Sikh cultures through several invasions and/or settlements. As a result the area has remained a part of numerous empires and dynasties including the Indian empires, Persian empires, Arab caliphates, Mongol,Mughal, Sikh and British Empire. Pakistan gained independence from the British Empire in 1947 after a struggle for independence, led by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, that sought the partition of India and the creation of an independent state for the Muslim majority populations of the eastern and western regions of British India.[9] With the adoption of its constitution in 1956, Pakistan became an Islamic republic.[10] In 1971, an armed conflict in East Pakistan resulted in the creation of Bangladesh.[11]
Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic consisting of four provinces and four federal territories. With over 170 million people, it is the sixth most populous country in the world[2] and has the second largest Muslim population after Indonesia.[12] It is an ethnically andlinguistically diverse country with a similar variation in its geography and wildlife. With a semi-industrialized economy, it is the 27th largest in the world in terms of purchasing power. Since gaining independence, Pakistan's history has been characterised by periods of military rule,political instability and conflicts with neighbouring India. The country faces challenging problems including terrorism, poverty, illiteracy and corruption.
Pakistan has the seventh largest standing armed force and is the only Muslim-majority nation to possess nuclear weapons. It is designated as a major non-NATO ally of the United States and a strategic ally of China.[13][14] It is a founding member of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation)[15] and a member of the United Nations,[16] Commonwealth of Nations,[17] Next Eleven economies and the G20 developing nations.
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