Two other Australian companies, TrustDefender and a student project from the University of Tasmania were runners-up in their respective categories. Winners were announced at a gala dinner in Singapore last night.

“The APICTA awards are a platform that has pushed Aussie innovators into the Asia-Pacific spotlight,” says AIIA’s Chief Executive Officer, Sheryle Moon.
 
“It’s wonderful to see Australian companies driving innovation on a global scale. Winning these awards will be a great validation for these companies and Australia, as they are acknowledged for their ICT contribution and impact on regional and international industries, and the AIIA is proud to be associated with them.”

Sydney-based Cargowise, who won an iAward for its supply chain logistics management solutions software, swept all before it in the General Applications category. Proudly Australian and globally competitive, Cargowise is an international logistics, freight forwarding and customs broking software developer. Cargowise provide a modular set of supply chain logistics management systems.

Winning in the Education and Training category, Perth-based company Read-On is a family business which started after they saw a need in special education software. The Mangano family developed an interactive software system that serves as a learning tool for people with reading difficulties. By combining research-based learning strategies with the latest text-to-speech tools and multimedia technology ReadOn builds skill and self-reliance.

Runner-up in the Tertiary Student Project category was the Distributed Services Management Systems group, and is a software project developed by a team of five tertiary students from the University of Tasmania. As an APICTA finalist, the group developed an online job tracking system that provides an efficient way for business to create, manage and track job requests.

Also runner-up was TrustDefender, who provides online transaction security solutions for the consumer, enterprise or merchant in the financial services sector. The software authenticates the security health status of the end user computer whilst extending beyond the security of the business environment.

Other Australian APICTA finalists included NetCat, Senetas, Synetek Systems, Year 12 student Trang Phan from Smithfield State High School, Pikistrips.com, NICTA, Open Kernel Labs and Sensear.

For full details of the winners, go to www.apicta.com 

As a part of the Australian contingent making the annual trek to APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards), I arrived on Saturday excited to see what the best ICT companies across the Asia Pacific region had to offer.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) welcomes the appointment of Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy as Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.

The Australian Information Industry Association (NT) and the Australian Computer Society (NT) will be running their AGM's side-by-side before a joint Christmas get-together, including drinks and nibbles.

AIIA loves to here of its members' success.  If your company has some major news, whether it be an award, exciting new partnership or anything you think is of interest to your fellow member companies, we want to know about it!

Please send your news-tip to AIIA's Communication Manager, Rhett Somers, or AIIA's New Media Manager, Michael Anderson.

The 2008 Premier’s Sustainability Awards are proudly hosted by Sustainability Victoria on behalf of the Premier of Victoria. The award categories are large business, small business, community, public sector and products or services.

Find out more at www.sustainabilityawards.vic.gov.au

Sponsorship opportunities are now available for 2008 AIIA events.  If you’re interested in putting your company’s name on some of the ICT industry’s biggest and most exciting events, please contact Tania Crosbie for more information.

AIIA Welcomes our New Members and profiles them each week in the "Our Members' News" section of the Bulletin.

We encourage everyone to view these profiles each week and see if our new members products and services are of value to your organisation - possibly as a service provider, supplier, educator, consultant, alliance or business partner.

Waugh Partners is hosting a "Meet the Open Source Industry" breakfast event in every capital city around Australia, where you'll hear about the value of Open Source, meet the local industry vendors in each city, and hear about the Open Source Industry and Community Census - the biggest ever research project into the dynamics and metrics of the industry and community behind Open Source in Australia.

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