Sri Lanka’s ICT sector receives high honours at Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2022

Every year, the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) nominates the National ICT Awards – NBQSA winners to represent the nation at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards, organised by the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA). 
This year, the Asia Pacific ICT Awards was held in Islamabad, Pakistan and Sri Lanka was represented by a large number of National ICT Awards winners and six Young Scientists Competition (YCS) nominees selected by the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS). 

The Sri Lankan contingent achieved great success at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards, taking the fifth overall position winning one trophy and six merit awards out of 216 nominees from 16 APICTA member countries. The Merit award winners included Cyber Labs Services – TestMyUsers, Informatics Institute of Technology – Planet Hunters, Airplate, FONIX Software Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd – ExamHub Sri Lanka and Eduscope Private Limited – Eduscope Unified Media Station (UMS). The Provincial Department of Education, Sabaragamuwa –Education Management Information System (SipThathu) won the most sorted-after APICTA Trophy. The Trophy Award winner and other Merit award winners were nominated by BCS from the National ICT Awards – NBQSA 2022 while a Merit award winner of the school category was a student from Royal College, Colombo 7, who was nominated from the Young Scientists Competition organised by FITIS.

Vajeendra S. Kandegamage, Chairman, BCS, the chartered institute for IT, Sri Lanka, shared his thoughts, “It is wonderful to see such a vast number of participants from Sri Lanka at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards. It is a great representation of how innovative and inventive Sri Lanka is, in terms of ICT, especially given the challenges we face at present as a nation. I would like to congratulate all the winners and the participants and I wish them great success in the future. I would also like to thank all the nominees and EXCO members who were able to travel to Pakistan, despite the challenges they faced in doing so.”

The APICTA is an association of ICT communities nominated by member economies, including Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam, who came together to form a regional association to promote technology innovation and encourage the development of indigenous ICT solutions for the global market via an annual awards programme in the Asia Pacific region.