His Royal Highness
Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, The Crown Prince and
Senior Minister at the Prime Minister's Office
presented awards and prizes to the winners of the
Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) 2005 at a ceremony held at
the International Convention Centre, Berakas,
yesterday evening.
Accompanying The Crown Prince was His Royal Highness
Prince 'Abdul Malik.
Upon arrival, the royal guests were greeted by Pehin
Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Abu
Bakar Bin Haji Apong, the Minister of
Communications, Dato Paduka Haji Yusof Bin Haji
Abdul Hamid, the Deputy Minister of Communications
as well as the Permanent Secretary of Communications
and other senior officials of BICTA 2005 organising
committee.
Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Awang
Haji Abu Bakar Bin Haji Apong, the Minister of
Communications in his welcoming speech said that
BICTA Awards have become a platform to inspire
innovations, creativity and excellence in the field
of ICT among individuals, Local ICT Small and Medium
Enterprise entrepreneurs and Educational
institutions.
The Minister of Communications disclosed that this
year, a total of 40 participants have been accepted
to compete in 13 out of 16 categories namely
e-government and public services, education and
training, secondary student project, tourism and
hospitality, media and entertainment,
communications, health, security, application and
infrastructure tools, general applications, start up
company, primary student project and tertiary
student project. To encourage establishment of new
companies, one new category has been introduced
namely the 'Start up company'.
Besides the encouraging response of participants,
the content and quality of the ICT projects have
also increased. And half of the participants for
this year's BICTA come from students from primary
level, secondary level, higher learning
institutions, technical and vocational schools, he
added
Aside from grabbing home $1,000, trophy and plaque
for the winners of each categories, they (winners)
will also be representing Brunei Darussalam at Asia
Pacific ICT Awards 2005 scheduled for February 2006.
Minister of Communications congratulated the winners
at the end of his speech.
His Royal Highness Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah,
The Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime
Minister's Office who is also the Royal Patron of
BICTA consented to present awards and prizes to the
winners of the Brunei ICT Award (BICTA) 2005.
The winners are as follows: CfBT education services
(B) Sdn Bhd with their project "Asean Multimedia
English" emerged as winner in the education &
training category, Teleconsult Sdn Bhd with their
project "e-Plato Communicator" took home first place
in the Communications Application category, Dalplus
Technologies with their project "Dog Fighter" become
the winner in the Media and Entertainment category,
e-Suria Mentari System with the project " e-Suria
Website content management" came out first in the
Applications and infrastructure tools category, i-Pixel
studio with their project " i-Pixel studio video
profile" emerged winner in the Start up Companies
category, Maktab Teknik Sultan Saiful Rijal with
their project " Programmable Machine Control System
grabbed first place in the Tertiary students
project, Khairunnisaa Saaniah Haji Kamsan and Enita
Wardhana Ismuadi with their project "PSR Web based
interactive Exam" took home the winning trophy in
the Secondary Student Project category and lastly
Sekolah Rendah Amar Pahlawan, Brunei II with their
project " Living Things - Animals" emerged the
winner in the Primary student project category.
While The recipients special mentions of BICTA 2005
went to: AV electronics Pte Ltd with their project "AVTS"
in the Education and training category, Dr Md Mahmud
Hasan with "PC based Electro diagram (ECG) recorder
as internet home appliance", Teleconsult Sdn Bhd
with "e- Plato health ware" in the Healthcare
category, Teleconsult Sdn Bhd with "e- Plato" in the
E-Government and Services category, Dalplus
Technologies with their project "DalplusAnti Spyware"
in the security category, Dalplus Technologies with
their project " Bruclass Auctions" in the General
Applications category, Cyber Kampong for their
project "Tourism Brunei 2005" in the Tourism and
Hospitality category, Pg Hj Asmali Pg Badarudin with
his project "Multi Purpose Reverse Auction" in the
Start up companies category, Maktab Teknik Sultan
Saiful Rijak for their project "Brunei Tourism" and
Institut Teknologi Brunei for their project "Multi
Sensor security system" in the Tertiary students
project category and finally Boon Siew Mai (Chung
Hwa Middle School) with project " Bubble POP!".
After the presentation of awards and prizes for
BICTA 2005, The Crown Prince proceeded to receive a
Pesambah from Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri
Setia Awang Haji Abu Bakar Bin Haji Apong, the
Minister of Communications.
The BICTA 2005 and its associated events are
organised by the Ministry of Communications with the
support of the Authority for Info-Communications
Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AiTi),
Brunei Darussalam Information Technology Council
(BIT) and the Brunei Darussalam Computer Society (PKBD).
