Awards Categories
The APICTA Awards are divided into categories as follows:
Sustainability and Green IT
The Sustainability and Green IT award is presented to the most innovative ICT solution that addresses sustainability issues and offers value on economy, environment and society.
Product Definition:
The application of software and/or hardware and/or processes and/or related products or services which addresses sustainability issues inclusive of but not limited to climate change, environmental conservation and impact and/or Green IT initiatives such as life-cycle management, resource management, carbon emission reduction , environmental performance monitoring or renewable energy management. Sustainability is measuring metrics based on economic, environmental and social outcomes.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a high level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Value to society at large |
Triple Bottom Line |
The product provides value along these three aspects: a) economic - ability to do things faster, better, cheaper b) environmental - whole of life cycle from cradle to grave (including eWaste) and ability to offset carbon emissions c) social - ability to generate new jobs and facilitate economic growth and career development |
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Environment Metrics |
Environmental performance metrics address the existing environmental impact of the industry, service and/or process the product addresses OR, the actual and/or potential environmental benefits of implementing the product. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product fulfill all user requirements; shows good evidence of implementation from the customer; empowers most users to accomplish their tasks easily/efficiently; and the design provides scalability and expandability for changing technologies and approaches. |
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market, easy to maintain and fulfills all the basic user requirements for a secured system. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product has a good deployment of latest technology; satisfies the standard of CMM/ISO; provides some degree of compliance to target usage requirement; and/or has won awards locally/regionally/ |
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Product Stability & Reliability |
The product has been proven to be a stable and reliable product by end-users consistently. |
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Presentation |
Organization of Presentation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Tourism and Hospitality
This award recognises outstanding ICT innovation designed to deliver superior outcomes in the tourism or hospitality industries. It may be any application of software, hardware or its combination that supports service based industry comprising a number of tangible and intangible components such as transport, food and beverages, tours, souvenirs and accommodation, health-tourism, culture, adventure or simply escape and relaxation.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
| Uniqueness | Technologies & Innovation | Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
| Trend Setting | Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. | |
| Market Potential | Market Share & Potential | The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
| Business & Financial Model/Strategy | Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. | |
| Functionalities/Features | User Requirements | The features of the product:
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| Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security | The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. | |
| Quality/Application of Technology | Content & Standards | The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
| Product stability & Reliability | The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. | |
| Presentation | Organisation | The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
| Enquiries | Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Tools and Infrastructure
This award is presented to the most innovative nomination for an ICT solution that provides tools for the management or creation of hardware or software infrastructure. It may be any software program designed to operate hardware through basic operating systems and programming languages, increase the efficiency of systems personnel through system performance measurement tools, improve the operating capabilities of the hardware system by routing the flow of data among machine units, handle data entry and delivery, to insure program integrity through maintenance, convert programs from one language to another, organize data resources through sort/merge products, or monitor machine usage.
In addition it may also be any software program designed to allow users to retrieve, organize, manage and manipulate data and databases. This group is divided into four sub-categories: data access/retrieval, data management, data manipulation, and program design, development. It includes all database management system (DBSM) software; decision-support and executive information system (EIS) programs; spreadsheet programs; front-end and back-end CASE tools; and emerging areas like cooperative processing and/or object management application development tools.
Furthermore the entry may be any software program designed as a software tools to develop another application or database or operating systems or any software program designed to monitor integrated Information Technology System operation, improve systems performance and increase reliability of systems.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
| Uniqueness | Technologies & Innovation | Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
| Trend Setting | Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. | |
| Market Potential | Market Share & Potential | The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
| Business & Financial Model/Strategy | Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. | |
| Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements | The features of the product:
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| Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security | The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. | |
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Application of Technology |
Content & Standards | The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
| Product stability & Reliability | The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. | |
| Presentation | Organisation | The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
| Enquiries | Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Tertiary Student Project
This award recognises the most outstanding project undertaken by a tertiary (undergraduate) student or group of students. It may be any Information and Communication Technology project or research performed by a student or a group of students who are registered as active undergraduate student in higher-learning institution, such as college or university.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Application of Technologies |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity |
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Innovation |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment |
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Proof of Concept |
Understanding of Problem to be Solved |
Demonstrate a good understanding of specific problem in the local country environment problem to be solved, shows some ability to integrate that knowledge into the product creation process and the product has a good potential to be commercialized. |
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Understanding of Business Environment |
Demonstrates a good understanding of the business environment in product creation |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The solution has a good deployment of latest technology (available to the student); satisfies the standard of good workmanship (best practices); and complies with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Start Up Company
This award recognises the most outstanding ICT company that is still in the start up phase of development.
This award recognises the most outstanding ICT company that is still in the start up phase of development. Start-up Company is an Information and Communication Technology company who develop an innovative and potential superior ICT Product but the company it self is still considered at the early stage of inception.
The Start-up Company must meet the following criteria,
- The company must be a company registered under company eligibility for nomination rule.
- Company registration must not more than 3 years from the date of APICTA competition.
- The founder of the company and or the product developers must still be the major share holder of the company.
- The company must not be a subsidiary of well established parent company.
- The company must not have received substantial funding from VC or other investor other than their own funding.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Business Model and Financial |
Marketing |
Demonstrates clear and thorough go-to-market strategy |
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Funding |
Demonstrates good financial efficiency and project good confidence in its revenue projections. |
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Innovation / Technology |
Application of Technology |
The product has a good deployment of latest technology; satisfies the standard of CMM/ISO and any other international standards; and provides some degree of compliance to target usage requirement. |
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Product Innovation |
Product demonstrates a good mix of functions and features in an attractive presentation |
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Execution/ Team Composition/ Implementation |
Scalability of Operation |
Demonstrates good knowledge of business planning, business continuity know-how and realistic execution strategy. |
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Team Composition |
Demonstrates a clear and focused organization chart/structure, plus delineation of roles and responsibilities and team members have good industry/domain knowledge. |
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Investment Viability |
Quality of Customer Base |
Product has reasonably a good customer base in the local and regional markets and is likely to attract a good deal of attention of the investment community. |
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Market Share |
Shows good potential to maintain and increase market position by demonstrating good agility to react/anticipate changes in the business situations, with satisfactory ability to develop creative solutions and have a basic system in place towards managing change. |
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Unique Selling Proposition |
Market Entry Barrier/IPR |
Demonstrates a good understanding and strategies to manage and minimise market entry barriers including resource ownership, patents and copyrights, government restrictions, and start-up costs. |
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Competitive Advantage & Differentiation |
Demonstrates good targeting strategy in which the company develops two or more marketing mixes to satisfy the needs of multiple segments of the market, to meet different needs and wants of users, and is able to influence the market price or quantity exchanged with some degree of market control. |
Cost : $25.00
Security Application
The Security Application award recognises the most outstanding contribution to the security industry made by an ICT innovation. It may be any application of software, hardware or its combination that provides authentication support, intruder detection and prevention, antivirus, anti spyware, data and/or system protection and counter security checking system that are applicable to the information technology environment as well as other security systems at large.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Secondary Student Project
This award is presented to the most outstanding ICT project undertaken by a secondary student or group of secondary students. Entry is open to any Information and Communication Technology project or research performed by a student or a group of students who are from a school comprising any span of grades beginning with the next grade following an elementary or middle-school (usually 7, 8, or 9) and ending with or below grade 12. Generally refers to the years of formal education prior to entering a College or University.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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| Uniqueness | Application of Technologies | Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity |
| Innovation | Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment | |
| Proof of Concept | Understanding of Problem to be Solved | Demonstrate a good understanding of specific problem in the local country environment problem to be solved, shows some ability to integrate that knowledge into the product creation process and the product has a good potential to be commercialized. |
| Understanding of Business Environment | Demonstrates a good understanding of the business environment in product creation | |
| Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements | The features of the product:
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| Compatibility and Interoperability | The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. | |
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Application of Technology |
Content & Standards | The solution has a good deployment of latest technology (available to the student); satisfies the standard of good workmanship (best practices); and complies with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
| Product stability & Reliability | The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. | |
| Presentation | Organisation | The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
| Enquiries | Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Research and Development
This award recognises the most outstanding ICT R&D project. Entry is open to any Information and Communication Technology research and creation, undertaken to discover and invent new knowledge, products, processes, and services or to create new and improved products, processes, and services required by market needs.
Any Information and Communication Technology product or creation that has been completed fully but not yet actively marketed or it is already actively marketed but still no customer or installation at the customer site yet provided its marketing effort is still less than one year since its product completion.
In addition, the entry may be any Information and Communication Technology product or creation that has not been completed but can be demonstrated to show its features and functionality. Funding of this product can be either from internal funding and or customer/user funding.
IPR of the Research and Development product must be owned by the company which nominates the product entry.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Creativity |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Proof of Concept |
Commercial Potential |
The product has strong potential for commercialisation, or at least a pilot user to use it. The product has good potential to take over existing market share from competing products. |
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Pilot Trial |
Product has been subjected to a pilot trial with some success. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility and Interoperability |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides some degree of compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
New Media and Entertainment
The New Media and Entertainment award is presented to the best ICT innovation delivering superior outcomes in the media and entertainment industries. It may be any application of software, hardware or its combination that relates to the process (the technology innovation is the main criteria to evaluate the product) of combining text, sound, pictures, and videos, to create a diversion that holds the attention (entertainment), in the form of multimedia, infotainment, immersive and interactive media. Included in this category are applications as afore mentioned which are delivered through mediums including the internet and mobile devices e.g. the technology innovation to develop advance human characterization in the animation film is the area to evaluate not the final film itself.
In addition, the entry may be any application of software, hardware or its combination that provides management and technical support to the news and entertainment industry such as Television Broadcasting, Radio Broadcasting, Cinema, Live Entertainment, Publishing, Newspaper, Internet News.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation and trend setting |
The product demonstrates a good level of innovation in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on user experience and demand generation. |
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Creativity |
Demonstrates original, appropriate and differentiated ideas and concepts or new associations between existing ideas and concepts. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has:
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market, such asWiFi, WiMax, and RFID. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product has a good deployment of the latest technologies, provides compliance with target usage requirements and prevailing regulatory regimes; and/or has won awards locally/ regionally/internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users OR Satisfies and sustains user enthusiasm |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Industrial Application
The Industrial Applications award recognises ICT innovation that delivers improved outcomes in industrial processes or activity. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination to improve the process performance of creating products and services and to increase efficiency and productivity e.g. Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), optimization devices and system, process effectiveness monitoring tools, data acquisition software, SCADA, process and discrete manufacturing, oil and gas etc.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has:
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility and Interoperability |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Financial Industry Application
This award is presented to the most innovative ICT solution offered to the financial industry. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination which supports and enables the process of transferring and managing capital or funds or monetary related entities within or across the enterprise in a various related industry such as banking, insurance, stock exchange, and multi finance.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
e-Logistics and Supply Chain Management
This award is presented to the most innovative nomination for an ICT solution that enhances supply chain and logistics related activities. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination which supports and enables the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers requirements.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
e-Learning
The e-Learning award recognises the most successful and innovative application of ICT to the delivery of education and training. The e-Learning category is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination that serves the needs of learners to acquire knowledge and skills through information and communication technologies; used in schools, universities, other educational institutions and corporations through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources; creating active e-learning communities and target models and solutions.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
| Criteria | Attributes | Description |
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
The product demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
The product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has:
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product has a good deployment of latest technology; satisfies the standard of SCORM/IMS/AICC/LOMS, etc; and provides some degree of compliance to target usage requirement; and/or has won awards locally/regionally/internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
e-Inclusions and e-Community
This award is presented to the ICT solution that best supports, promotes or encourages social inclusion or community cohesion. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination to support the community in the member economy's society with the aim:
- to promote the rights and needs of particular groups; or
- to improve the wellbeing, quality of life and standard of living of the community with the ultimate intent to bridge the digital divide developed by an organization (private, commercial or non profit) other than the government.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
The product demonstrates:
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Trend Setting |
The product delivers the capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Value to Community & Society at large |
Accessibility, Reach and Sustainability |
Most of the local people are using this product which demonstrates easy-to-use, easy to maintain, cost-effective and a positive social impact, plus it has a good potential to be exported to another place. |
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Social Integration & Impact on Quality of Life |
The product identifies, includes and empowers the user, assists the user to integrate with society at large and/or transforms and enhances the welfare and well-being of the user. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market, easy to maintain and fulfils all the basic user requirements for a secured system. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides some degree of compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
e-Health
The e-Health award is presented to the most innovative ICT solution that supports superior outcomes across the broad spectrum of services and activities delivered by healthcare professionals. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination that relates to the services provided to individuals or communities by a health care system or by professionals to promote, maintain, monitor, or restore health. Healthcare contains a broad spectrum of services and activities delivered by a team of health personnel.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
Product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
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Business & Financial Model/Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/ Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
e-Government
The e-Government award is presented for outstanding ICT innovation dedicated to delivering improved government service delivery or other electronic initiatives to the community.
The application may be:
- any application of software, hardware or its combination to support the community in our society with the aim of promoting the rights and needs of particular groups; or
- any application of software, hardware or its combination that enables more efficient, effective, transparent and low cost of Government operations; or
- any application of software, hardware or its combination that has been implemented by a Government Institution and Public Service to provide the best and most valuable services to the public; or
- any application of software that has been developed to meet a specific Government requirement for Public Service use and its services as managed by Government Institution.
The application may have been developed by a private institution, government institution or government owned company, be funded by the Government or a foreign donor, and can still be in the pilot implementation. While the application may not necessarily be in full-scale implementation the Government Institution or Public Services Institution must already use it.
An application which has been developed to be used by a State Owned Company or Government Owned Company for business purposes is not included under this category.
Proof from the user of the acceptance or recognition of the application's implementation must be presented during the entry nomination.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
The product demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
The product demonstrates good capability to solve a specific problem in the local country environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Value to Public/Government/ Community |
Accessibility & Reach |
Most of the local people are using this product which demonstrates easy-to-use, cost-effective and a positive social impact, plus it has a good potential to be exported to another place. |
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Transparency & Impact on Quality of Life |
Product is able to fulfil user requirements to ensure fairness and equitability of public information and services. It also transforms most of the government processes to be more customer-centric and enhances the welfare and well-being of the target user groups. |
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Functionalities/Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market, easy to maintain and fulfils all the basic user requirements for a secured system. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product has a good deployment of latest technology; satisfies the standard of CMM/ISO; provides some degree of compliance to target usage requirement; and/or has won awards locally/regionally/internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has been proven to be a stable and reliable product by end-users consistently. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates on the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00
Communications
The Communication award is presented to the most innovative ICT solution supporting or providing any form of communication service. Entry is open to any application of software, hardware or its combination that relates to the transmission of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, voice, video, data, or intelligence of any nature by digital or analog, electromagnetic or electronic signals through existing and emerging media (e.g., radio, telephone, television, facsimile, SMS, MMS, GPRS, Internet, WiFi, WiMax, 3G, Bluetooth, RFID).
The application must be developed specifically for the Communications Industry and it is not appropriate and difficult to be converted and used by other industry.
Criteria
The entry will be judged on five criteria, each examining two attributes:
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Criteria
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Attributes
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Description
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Uniqueness |
Technologies & Innovation |
Demonstrates a good level of creativity in deploying appropriate technologies to develop the product, with a good mix of functions and features and focus on customer-centricity. |
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Trend Setting |
The product delivers the capability to solve a specific problem in the Australian environment and there is no similar product in the Asia Pacific market. |
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Market Potential |
Market Share & Potential |
The product has a good market share in the domestic market and has some market potential in the regional and/or international markets, has a good product growth path, e.g. likely to evolve into more diversified product addressing different needs, as well as a high potential to take over the market share from competing products. |
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Business & Financial Model/ Strategy |
Product positioning and marketing demonstrate defined and realistic business and financial management strategies. |
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Functionalities/ Features |
User Requirements |
The features of the product:
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Compatibility/ Interoperability/ Security |
The product is compatible and interoperable with most of the other systems in the market. |
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Quality/Application of Technology |
Content & Standards |
The product deploys the latest technologies, satisfies CMM/ISO standards, provides compliance with target usage requirements and/or has won awards locally, regionally and/or internationally. |
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Product stability & Reliability |
The product has proven to be consistently stable and reliable with end-users. |
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Presentation |
Organisation |
The presentation communicates the key merits of the product clearly, effectively, informatively and in an attractive manner. |
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Enquiries |
Demonstrates thoughtful consideration of the question and provide good, clear and consistent competence in responses. |
Cost : $25.00