Sri Lankan delegation secures second place at Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) awards
The delegation that represented Sri Lankan had secured the second place overall at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) awards 2019 held from 19th to 22nd November at Ha Long Bay in Vietnam.
APICTA is an alliance of national ICT organisations to build and enhance a mutually cooperative network to promote ICT across the Asia Pacific region with 16 member economies.
BCS Sri Lanka Section and FITIS (Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka) Software Chapter have jointly represented Sri Lanka at APICTA since 2003.
A total of 36 products were selected to represent Sri Lanka this year.
The entries had comprised of 30 products nominated by the BCS Sri Lanka Section in Commercial and Tertiary Student categories and 06 products nominated by the FITIS Software Chapter in Secondary Student Category.
The nominees from BCS Sri Lanka section were selected out of the winners of the NBQSA National ICT Awards 2019.
According to reports, Sri Lanka had won a total of 11 medals – 2 Golds and 5 Merits from the Commercial Categories, 1 Gold and 2 Merits from Tertiary Student Category and 1 Merit from Secondary Student Category.
The Gold awards were won by Arimac Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Epic Lanka (Pvt) Ltd and University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Arimac Lanka (Pvt) Ltd had further won three merits, along with merits from Omibio Pvt Ltd, ITX 360, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and Rahula College, Anuradhapura.
The event also saw APICTA honour one of its founders and former Chairpersons, Dr. Dileepa De Silva from Sri Lanka.
OSL take:
Sri Lanka’s ICT and digital infrastructure development sectors have been on a growth path during the past few years and the economic policies adopted by the government of Sri Lanka to further boost the sectors would undoubtedly have a positive impact on the country’s ICT sector. All these have resulted in the expansion of business/investment opportunities in Sri Lanka’s ICT and digital infrastructure development sectors.
| Article Code : | VBS/AT/03122019/Z_4 |