Code number: 1
Category: Education and Training

Any application software, hardware or its combination that promotes a program or programs to develop, support and administer the training, general knowledge, academic, technical, vocational skills and cultural attainments of individuals. These programs are used for schools, preschool activities and childcare centers, colleges, universities, schools for the mentally retarded or physically handicapped, educational radio and television stations, libraries, enterprise or museums.

Including under this category is e-Learning application intended for close user group or openly available through internet access for public as a free courseware or commercial courseware. 

Code number: 2
Category: Healthcare

Any application 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.

Code number: 3
Category: E-Government & Services

Any application software, hardware or its combination that enable more efficient, effective, transparent and low cost of Government Operation and Government Services to Public.

Any application software, hardware or its combination that has been implemented by Government Institution and Public Services to provide the best and valuable services to Public.

Any application software that has been developed to meet specific Government requirement for Public Service use and its services is managed by Government Institution. The application can be developed by private institution, government institution or government owned companies funded by the Government or Foreign donor, and still can be in the pilot implementation. The application may not necessary in full-scale implementation but the Government Institution or Public Services Institution already uses it.

The application that has been developed for use by State Owned Company or Government Owned Company for business purposes is not included under this category.

Prove from the user for the acceptance or recognition of application implementation must be presented during the entry nomination.  

Code number: 4
Category: Security

Any application software, hardware or its combination that provide authentication support, intruder detection and prevention system, antivirus, anti spyware, data and/or system protection and counter security checking system.  

Code number: 5
Category: Industrial Application

Any application of software, hardware or its combination required by engineering automation to increase its process performance of creating products and services, improve efficiency and productivity e.g. Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM), optimization devices and system, process effectiveness monitoring tools, data acquisition, SCADA, process and discrete manufacturing, oil and gas etc. 

Code number: 6
Category: Communications Applications

Any application software, hardware or its combination that relates with any 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 Communications Industry and it is not appropriate and difficult to be converted and used by other industry.  

Code number: 7
Category: Financial Applications

Any application software, hardware or its combination to support and enable 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. 

Code number: 8
Category: General Applications

Any application software, hardware or its combination to support a range of functions that are commonly used by an enterprise or any business or organization entity in order to improve efficiency and productivity. Includes in this category are: back office applications, office productivity tools, human resource information system, administration tools, procurement system, marketing system, CRM etc.

Any application software, hardware or its combination which are not fit in any of the above entries category can be classified and nominated in General Application cluster.

Code number: 9
Category: Media and Entertainment

Any application software, hardware or its combination relates to the process 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. Including in this category is the application as afore mentioned through internet medium and mobile devices delivery.

Any application 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. 

Code number: 10
Category: Tourism and Hospitality

Any application software, hardware or its combination that supports service based industry comprising a number of tangible and intangible component such as transport, foods and beverages, tours, souvenirs and accommodation, health-tourism, culture, adventure or simply escape and relaxation. 

Code number: 11
Category: Applications and Infrastructure Tools

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, and handle data entry and delivery, or to insure program integrity through maintenance, convert programs from one language to another, organize data resources through sort/merge products, and monitor machine usage.

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.

Any software program designed as a software tools to develop another application or database or operating systems.

Any software program designed to monitor integrated Information Technology System operation, improve systems performance and increase reliability of systems.  

Code number: 12
Category: Research & Development
 
Any Information and Communication Technology research and creation, 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.

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 intemal funding and or customer/user funding.

IPR of the Research and Development product must be owned by the company who nominate the product entry.

Code number: 13
Category: Start-up Companies
 
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
* Founder of the company ann 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

Code number: 14
Category: Tertiary Student Project w
 
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.

Note:
This category will be handle by the MOE in INFORAMA competition and the winner will be automatically will be the winner for the BICTA and also be sent to APICTA 2006 at Macau. China.

Code number: 15
Category: Secondary Student Project
 
Any Information and Communication Technology project or research performed by a student or a group of students who are coming 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.

Note:
This category will be handle by the MOE in INFORAMA competition and the winner will be automatically will be the winner for the BICTA and also be sent to APICTA 2006 at Macau. China.

Code number: 16
Category: Primary Student Project  new
 
This Award is presented to the most innovative ICT project (web-based, creative multimedia, etc.) from primary school students.

Any ICT project that is conducted by a student or a group of students from a primary school in Brunei Darussalam.

Note:
This category will be handle by the MOE in INFORAMA competition and the winner will be automaticly will be the winner for the BICTA