Bangkok--Apr 28--HSBC
Mr. Jesada Tanrattanakul, senior student of Assumption University’s
Faculty of Business Administration, and Mr. Tanapon Uaetragoon, senior student
of Chiang Mai University’s Faculty of Science, from “Team BOO” have been named
winners of the Gold Prize of the HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards 2004-2005.
The Gold Award winners received a self development fund of 100,000
baht, Certificates of Excellence, trophies, and study trips to Hong Kong and
the University of Washington in the USA. Mr. Jesada and Mr. Tanapon will also
represent Thailand at the HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards regional competition
in Hong Kong on 16 June 2005 against the gold winners from Hong Kong, Malaysia
and the Phillippines
They won with their project titled “Mr. Matchup”, an application on
mobile devices and PCs that matches consumers’ needs with companies’ offerings
using IT technologies. With Mister Matchup, consumers can conveniently and
quickly locate the products or services they are looking for. Companies can save
up their marketing costs while increasing targetability.
The Silver Award went to Team 2Day of which members are Ms. Patcharakarn
Whanchid from Thammasat University’s Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy; Ms.
Pornprapai Piyasirananda, Thammasat University’s Faculty of Commerce and
Accountancy’ and Mr. Tanapong Tawatsupa, Kasetsart University’s Faculty of
Engineering. Their business plan is “ARCPs”, an automated car parking reservation
system which enables motorists to book a parking space in advance through its
website. Motorists, ensured of available parking spaces, can avoid wasting time
and gasoline driving in the parking lot; while the speedier flow of vehicles helps
to reduce traffic congestion both inside and outside the parking lot and the
resultant pollutant emissions. The Silver Award winners received 80,000 baht self
development fund, Certificates of Excellence, trophies and study trip to Hong Kong.
The Bronze Award was given to Team COOLZ. The team comprises Mr. Kanok
Karnchanapoo of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy;
Mr. Sorawish Dhanapanichkul, Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Engineering;
and Mr. Nattapon Boonpinon, Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Commerce and
Accountancy. They proposed a business plan titled “Print@anywhere”, a one-stop
printing service for home and business users providing a variety of quality
printing outputs from its kiosks. Customers can send documents online to its web
service and wait for the output to be delivered or plug their handy drive and
print the documents themselves.
The “HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards 2004-2005 is a business plan
writing competition open to local Thai undergraduate students. Organised for the
first time in Thailand with the support of the Ministry of Information and
Communication Technology, the Awards scheme aims to promote creativity and
entrepreneurship among Thailand’s young generation. It requires each participating
team to develop an innovative business plan involving the use of IT. A total of
102 entries, which were created by 269 university students, were received and
screened in four rounds of selection. Eight students from the top three teams
made their business plan presentations at the Thailand Finals on 23 April to
compete for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards.
The competition, which ran from August 2004, also provides an
opportunity to participants to learn business disciplines and to acquire practical
knowledge through a series of training programmes on business planning, financial
planning and presentation skills workshop hosted by HSBC.
Mr. Marcus Hurry, Chief Executive Officer of HSBC in Thailand said,
“Thailand’s future depends upon the success of the young generation. HSBC believes
in fostering ingenuity and an entrepreneurial spirit, which our experience shows
is integral in developing tomorrow’s successful business leaders. The HSBC Young
IT Entrepreneur Awards was created to support that development work. I am pleased
that this Awards scheme has played a part in supporting the personal and
professional development of Thai students while contributing to Thailand as
a whole in its quest to enhancing the country’s competitiveness”.
The panel of judges, chaired by Mr. Kraisorn Pornsutee, permanent
secretary of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology; and Mr.
Marcus Hurry; and comprising businessmen and academics, assessed the finalist
teams based on the creativity of their business ideas, commercial viability of
the business plans, application of IT and their presentation skills.
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The HSBC Young IT Entrepreneur Awards 2004-2005
Thailand Finals
The three finalist teams
Student name University Year Major Brief background of winning proposal
Team 2Day ACRPS
Ms. Patcharakarn Whanchid Thammasat University 4 Finance ACRPS is an automated car parking reservation
system which enables motorists to book a parking
space in advance through its website. Motorists,
ensured of available parking spaces, can avoid
wasting time and gasoline driving in the parking
lot; while the speedier flow of vehicles helps to
reduce traffic congestion both inside and outside
the parking lot and the resultant pollutant emissions.
Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy
Ms. Pornprapai Piyasirananda Thammasat University 4 Management Information System
Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy
Mr. Tanapong Tawatsupa Kasetsart University 4 Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Team Boo Mr. Matchup
Mr. Jesada Tanrattanakul Assumption University 4 Management Mr. Matchup is an application on mobile devices and PCs
that matches consumers’ needs with companies’ offerings
using technologies like the Internet, GPRS, Bluetooth and
Wireless LAN. With Mr. Matchup, consumers can conveniently
and quickly locate the products/services they are looking for.
Companies can save up their marketing costs while increasing
targetability.
Faculty of
Business Management
Mr. Tanapon Uaetragoon University of Chiang Mai 4 Biology
Faculty of Sciences
Team Coolz Print@nywhere
Mr. Kanok Karnchanapoo Chulalongkorn University 4 Management Print@nywhere is a one-stop printing service for home and
business users providing a variety of quality printing outputs
from its kiosks. Customers can send documents online to its
web service and wait for the output to be delivered or plug
their handy drive and print the documents themselves.
Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy
Mr. Sorawish Dhanapanichkul Chulalongkorn University 4 Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Mr. Nattapon Boonpinon Chulalongkorn University 4 Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
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