The 7th Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) 2011

Monday, 3rd October 2011 – The 7th Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) 2011 was held at the Empire Hotel & Country Club and graced by Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Hamzah Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Abdullah bin Begawan Mudim Dato Paduka Haji Bakar, Minister of Communications. Also attending the event were the Deputy Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Permanent Secretary.

 

The opening remark was delivered by Yang Mulia Dato Paduka Awang Haji Alaihuddin BIN POKDG Haji Mohd Taha, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Chairman of BICTA Steering Committee. Following the opening remarks, the BICTA 2011 video and the “BICTA - The Journey” powerpoint presentation were shown to the attendees. The event was also furnished with a judges’ report by the Chief Judge of the BICTA competition, Dr Yong Chee Tuan, UBD Senior Lecturer, where he outlined the findings of this years’ participants’ presentations. The panel of judges was represented by AITI, IFB, iCentre, Zimac, UNISSA, UBD and DST.

Following the judges’ report, the BICTA participants profile slides were shown which showcased all 24 of the participants who went through to the judging process. Coming to the close of the ceremony, the Minister of Communications presented certificates to all participating judges.

The Minister then presented awards to the participants. Under the ICT INDUSTRIES category, Merit Award was awarded to Iplussoft Technology “Brunei Lifestyle Mobile Application”, SocialBuzz Advertising “Social Deal Brunei” and Crescent Sdn Bhd “Islamic Brunei Educators”. 3rd Place for the ICT Industries category was given to Indera Sejahtera Development Services Sdn Bhd “Where2kerja.com”. Whilst for the TERTIARY category was won by Sultan Saiful Rijal Technical College “Brunei Experience Multimedia Project” which a cheque for $7,000 was granted to the winning Institution. Institute Technology Brunei “Simple pay” was awarded with a Merit award. Merit awards and 3rd place was awarded to Chung Hwa Middle School, BSB “Waseven Resource Reservation” and Sekolah Menengah Masin “Easy Text Book” respectively under the SECONDARY Category.

All of the awarded participants will be brought over to present their products to the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2011. This years’ APICTA will be held on November 8 – 11, 2011 in Dusit Thani Pattaya, Pattaya, Thailand. Special Awards was presented to 2 participants for the contribution of their product to concept of Islamic principle and moving towards the direction of Green intiative respectively to Crescent Sdn Bhd “Islamic Brunei Educators” and Megamas Training Company Sdn Bhd “Brunei Carbon Footprint Calculator.

The primary objective of BICTA is to stimulate innovation and creativity in ICT industry amongst individual and associations including SME; to be the benchmark for local company to compete amongst each other and to be nominated in the annually held APICTA. 

Brunei Darussalam is one of the participating countries for the APICTA event which was held annually in a selected participant's country. The other countries participating for the APICTA event are Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand & Vietnam.

APICTA is a collaborative network which is not only focusing on knowledge sharing and innovative benchmarking, but also on business facilitation between business communities from the member countries.

For more information on BICTA please visit www.bicta.gov.bn