Bangkok--27 Apr--In House Agency
Conference Room 1, ICT 3, Ministry of Information and Communications Technology: SIPA and ATCI jointly organize a national software competition “Thailand ICT Awards 2007”. The winner of Thailand ICT Awards will win a chance to join the international tournament, the Asia Pacific ICT Awards held in Singapore this year. The application is now opened until 15th June 2007. This event is also endorsed by Oracle Corporation (Thailand), CAT Telecom, and Market for Alternative Investment (MAI).
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology in cooperation with Software Industry Promotion Agency (Public Organization) and The Association of Thai ICT Industry join hands to organize the 4th national software competition “Thailand ICT Awards.”. Software entrepreneurs, programmers and college students are most welcome to submit the projects. The 15th June is the last date for submission of entries. The competition is divided into 15 categories.
Dr. Avudh Ploysongsang, President of Software Industry Promotion Agency (Public Organization), said, “Thailand ICT Awards is one of various projects which SIPA provides support. Whist, it reflects SIPA’s mission to promote software invention and enhance the intellectual property. It also helps investors and software products gain acceptance in both domestic and international markets of Thai brand. Moreover, the competition will bring out a business network in Asia and Pacific region.”
“Today Thailand ICT Awards is widely accepted as qualified Thai software and guarantee the users’ preference. The awardees are selected and evaluated by a professional board of judges in ICT industry. Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Software Industry Promotion Agency (Public Organization) and The Association of Thai ICT Industry, however, include additional major activities such as a national ICT Exhibition, market training, presentation training as well as media publicity. If the projects meet the criteria, they will be presented abroad by SIPA. The nominees will gain more experience and take this opportunity to optimize the business in domestic and international markets,” adding Dr. Avudh.
Mr. Jumrud Sawangsamud, President of The Association of Thai ICT Industry (ATCI), explained more that, “this year Thailand ICT Awards is open for submission from today to 15th June and categorized into 15 topics. The Logistic and Supply Chain is engaged instead of Healthcare for the larger number of submission.
Organizations and individuals developing software for either internal use or sale are encouraged to apply. Please note that Thai ownership holds at least 50 percent of the share holding. Each candidate can submit 3 projects overall and not more than 2 projects for each category.”
“The selection criteria are at the same standard as the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. The winners from each category will have a chance to participate in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. We will organize a training to prepare and practice presentation techniques for them. It is currently under consultation with the host country — Singapore to organize the Business Matching among Thai representatives, other competitors and committees. This will also strengthen business network in Asia and Pacific level,” said Mr. Jumrud.
He added that “For the domestic market network, Thailand ICT Awards is sponsored by Oracle Corporation (Thailand), CAT Telecom Public Company Limited and Market for Alternative Investment (MAI) which can further advance to be Business Partnership in the future.”
“I congratulate TICTA and all other parties involved for taking a lead in this initiative,” said Natasak Rodjanapiches, Regional Managing Director — ASEAN and Managing Director, Oracle Corporation (Thailand). “As per our long-term commitment to the Thai ICT to drive locally developed software solutions to international standard, we are offering technical knowledge and resources to enable ISVs to build up their strong business infrastructure with an aim to better serve and retain their customers. Not only in Thailand, but we are also working closely with ISVs in Asia Pacific to develop the ISV community for further business opportunities in regional-wide. . Our recent participation in APICTA program truly reflected a need for us to continue working with local independent software vendors to provide commercially viable and high quality solutions to the market. As such, this year, we are proud of supporting this project as Gold
Sponsor. In addition to the TICTA awards, the top solution vendor, who achieves the highest performance, will be granted for the "Oracle ISV Awards" to benefit from Oracle Partner Network program.
Mr. Chalermpon Punnotok, CEO of Computer Telephony Asia Co., Ltd., winner of Thailand ICT Awards 2005 and Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2005 in Communications Application category and champion of the 2nd Princess IT Awards in March said, “Computer Telephony Asia Co., Ltd. has emerged its fame from this event particularly in the international level. Nowadays, Multimedia Contact Center (both inbound and outbound) of CT Asia enjoys over 70 percent of the market share in Thailand. Our system is widely distributed in America, England and China with over 50 million Baht total value. Thailand ICT Awards is definitely useful for entrepreneurs and Thai software industry.”
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