APICTA Country Coordinator from Epic Lanka |
| As the premier ICT solutions provider of the country with regionally recognized products Epic Lanka is proud to assist the local ICT firms as Shanta R Yapa, Vice President of Epic Lanka has been appointed as the Economy Coordinator for Sri Lanka at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2010. The Software chapter of the Federation of IT Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) represents APICTA in Sri Lanka. |
| The Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) is an international awards program which aims to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the digital divide. By providing networking and product benchmarking opportunities to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region, the program is designed to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity, promote economic and trade relations, facilitate technology transfer, and offer business matching opportunities via exposure to venture capitalists and investors. Participants of the awards program comprise members of the APICTA Alliance. APICTA’s 16 member-economies include Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. |
| The Economy Coordinator will facilitate the participants of the APICTA and the judging panel from the respective economy and will also act as the key liaison with the APICTA Secretariat. |
| Epic Lanka brought the first ever Gold Award for Sri Lanka at the APICTA 2008 held in Indonesia and also won the Runner-up award in the Finance and Banking Applications category in APICTA 2009 held in Australia. They also recorded the highest number of country representations from a single company by taking part in 6 product categories at APICTA 2009. Having won the highest number of awards for 3 consecutive years of 2007, 2008 and 2009 at the National Best Quality Software Awards -the national competition that selects APICTA participants- organized by BCS , Epic Lanka decided to not to take part in this years event to give way for new comers. |
