MSC MALAYSIA APICTA AWARD 2013 - CATEGORIES

1) Best of e-Learning


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions for the delivery of e-Learning.

Any application of software and/or hardware that serves the needs of learners to acquire knowledge and skills through information and communication technologies; used in schools, universities, other educational institutions and corporations through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources; creating active e-learning communities, target models and solutions.

 

2) Best of e-Government & Services


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions that support electronic government initiatives and service delivery to the community.

Any application of software and/or hardware that enables transformation of internal and external government processes toward customer-centricity, providing service delivery opportunities to better fulfill the purposes of government to provide efficiency and effectiveness, as well as fairness and equitability.

 

3) Best of e-Inclusion and e-Community


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions that support communities and bridge the digital divide.

Any application of software and/or hardware developed wiht the aim to promote the rights and needs of particular groups; or to improve the wellbeing, quality of life and stardard of living of the community, with the ultimate intent to bridge the digital divide.

 

4) Best of e-Health


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions for the health / healthcare sector.

Any application of software and/or hardware 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. Included are systems for hospitals, clinics, health resorts, etc.

 

5) Best of Security


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions for security systems applications.

Any application of software and/or hardware that is related to authentication, encryption, intruder detection, antivirus, anti spyware, data and/or system protection.

 

6) Best of Communications Applications


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing outstanding communications technologies or for developing ICT solutions that make creative use of communications technologies.

Any application of software and/or hardware that is related to the 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.

 

7) Best of Industrial Applications


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing solutions that support the industrial sector, including manufacturing processes.

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

 

8) Best of E-Logistics


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions that support the logistics sector.

Any application of software and/or hardware that supports and enables the planning, implementing, and controlling efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services and related information, from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet customers' requirements.

 

9) Best of Financial Applications


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions that support the financial sector and various financial related business processes in an enterprise.

Any application of software and/or hardware that is related to the process of transferring and managing capital or funds, or monetary related entities within or across the enterprise. Such are applications for the banking, insurance, stock exchange, and multi finance industries.

 

10) Best of Media and Entertainment


This award is presented to the most innovative nomination in the field of creative content development for media / entertainment / infotainment.

Any application of software and/or hardware that is related 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 software, Games, etc. Including in this category is the applications 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 & Radio Broadcasting, Cinema, Live Entertainment, Publishing, Newspaper, Internet News.

 

11) Best of Tourism and Hospitality


This Award is presented to the most innovative nomination for developing ICT solutions for support of the tourism and hospitality industry.

Any application of software and/or hardware for the service based industries such as transport, food and beverage, tours, souvenirs, accommodation, health tourism, culture, adventure or simply escape and relaxation.

 

12) Best of Applications and Infrastructure Tools


This award is presented to the most innovative nomination for the development of applications and infrastructure tools.

Any software program that operates hardware, increases the efficiency of systems , measures and/or monitor system usage and performance. Any software program that provides for data access/retrieval, data manipulation (eg.sort/merge), data management, data warehousing and program design/development. It includes all database management system (DBMS) 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.

 

13) Best of Research & Development


This Award is presented to the most outstanding ICT R&D project.

Any ICT 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. It can be a prototype, or a completed product commercialized for a less than a year and with no customer installations yet.

 

14) Best of Start-up Companies


This Award is presented to the most entrepreneurial ICT company, the incorporation date of which must not be earlier than 3 years from 31st October of the year of the Awards (i.e. 31st October 2007).

 

15) Best of Tertiary Student Project - Software / Hardware

This Award is presented to the most innovative ICT software and or hardware project from students of Institutions of Higher Learning.

Any ICT project that is conducted by a student or a group of students who are formally enrolled in an institution of higher-learning, such as college or university, excluding Master and Doctorate programs.

 

16) Best of Tertiary Student Project - Creative Multimedia


This Award is presented to the most innovative creative multimedia project from students of Institutions of Higher Learning.

Any ICT project that is conducted by a student or a group of students who are formally enrolled in an institution of higher-learning, such as college or university, excluding Master and Doctorate programs.

 

17) Best of Secondary Student Project


This Award is presented to the most innovative ICT project (eg: web-based, creative multimedia, etc.) from secondary school students.

Any ICT project that is conducted by a student or a group of students from a secondary school in Malaysia.

 

18) Best of Sustainability and Green IT (New Category)


This category seeks to award the innovative application of Information Technolology to undertake any activity in a more sustainable manner and/or maintain a neutral or positive its overall environmental impact; which addresses issues inclusive of but not limited to measure enterprise emissions, reduce emissions associated with customers and suppliers to reduce the value-chain footprint. The overall goal is to reduce the IT footprint to build credibility and demonstrate tangible benefits and ultimately transform operations to operate in a low-carbon economy.

 

19) Best of Primary Student Project


This Award is presented to the most innovative ICT project (eg: 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 Malaysia.

 

20) Prime Minister's "Best of the Best" Award


This Award is presented to the best of the Winners from the industry categories above.