APICTA Award Gold Cup

Product ' Communication dictionary for deaf people '
Vietnam won the Gold Cup of Information Technology - Communication Award
Asia - Pacific (APICTA)

On the evening of February 19, 2006 at the Khum Khantoke Hotel Hall in Chiang Mai City Center - Thailand, the Asia-Pacific Information Technology - Communication (ICT) Awards Ceremony (APICTA - The 5th Asia Pacific ICT Awards was held solemnly. Attending the ceremony were Mr. Kanawat Vasinsungworn, Deputy Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunications of Thailand. This is an annual award to examine the quality and results of regional and international IT products, APICTA language in English. APICTA 2005 participants include: Vietnam, Singapore, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Macau, Malaysia, Australia, Brunei with 164 entries.

The Asia-Pacific ICT Award was created under the initiative of former Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Mahathir Mohamat, in 2001 and 2002 held in Malaysia, 2003 in Thailand, 2004 in Hong Kong, Annual rotation in member countries.

APICTA is of special importance, contributing to strengthening exchanges and promoting cooperation in the ICT industry in the Asia-Pacific region. The nature of the tournament is competition and competition. It is not only a competition between businesses but also a comprehensive competition among countries in terms of Engineering, Science and Technology, Research, Training and ICT applications. Through APICTA, we can clearly see the level of ICT development in the countries. APICTA is truly the most prestigious Asia Pacific ICT Award today.

Due to the development of the scope of IT application, this year's prize has been expanded from 14 to 15 majors for products at the professional level of IT industry, student-student projects; including 12 majors with products at the professional level of ICT industry, applied in the fields of: Education and training; Medical; Safety information; E-Government and public services; Application tools and Infrastructure; Industry; Packaged applications; Finance; Travel; Telecommunication; Entertainment industry; Business creation and 3 specialized categories for research and development and students are: ICT Research and Development (R&D) Project; ICT projects University students; ICT project High school students.

Joining APICTA 2005, Vietnam delegation with 25 members led by Dr. Nguyen Quy Son, President of APICTA Vietnam, participated with 9 products, in the following specialties:

- Specialization in e-Government and public services is the first time Vietnam has participated with the product ' E-Office System - E-Office System ' of Dong Nai Department of Science and Technology; and product ' Enterprise Information Management System - The Business Information Management System (BIMS) ' of FPT Company.

- Finance major with product ' Smart Bank - Smart Bank ' of FPT Company.

- Specialization of Packaged Applications with the product ' Enterprise Resource Planning Solution - IRP Solution an ERP Packaged ' of AZ Solution JSC.

- Specialization of research and development with the product ' Computer traffic monitoring system - Traffic Monitoring System by Computer Vision ' of the new Union of Science - Production - new technology (NEWSTECPRO),

- Specialization under the project of University students with Product ' Solution to standardize and clean the transparent network of TCPIP layer - Transparent Network and Transport Layer Nomilizer ' of the Institute of Applied Informatics; and product ' Health information system everywhere - Ubiquitous Healthcare Information System ' of Hanoi Foreign Trade University,

- Specialized in Education and Training with the product " Communication symbols dictionary of the deaf " of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education,

- Specialization to create businesses with products ' Integrated information portal Forum system and e-newsroom - The online Portal- integrated News Providing Solution: mvnForum and mvnCMS ' by Huu Ngoc Company (MVN group)

According to the general assessment of the jury and experts, this year's product has a much higher level of technology and professionalism than previous years.

After 2 days of organizing the contest with professional organization style and very fair and fair work of the jury, on the 19th of February, the Organizing Committee of the tournament issued a decision to announce the award of 14 gold cups, 12 silver cups and 02 bronze cup for countries and economies:

No.

Country and economy

Gold

The silver

Copper

first

Hong Kong

06

01

 

2

Malaysia

03

04

 

3

Thailand

01

03

 

4

Singapore

01

02

 

5

Australia

01

01

01

6

Vietnam

01

 

 

7

Pakistan

01

 

 

8

Sri Lanka

 

01

 

9

Macau

 

 

01

Countries that do not win prizes in this award: Indonesia, Brunei.

In particular, Vietnam has the product " Communication symbols dictionary of the hearing impaired " of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education is the first prize product in the field of Education - Training, awarded a gold cup. The ' Deaf communication dictionary dictionary ' application of Dot Net programming technology to create an electronic dictionary with 3900 illustrated templates for 2000 common words that allows users to self-study symbols communication. With this dictionary, students with hearing impairments can use computers to self-study the symbolic subject outside of school hours with teachers in class. Children with hearing impairment and special education students also use this dictionary to improve their sign skills to be able to communicate with their students, increasing teaching effectiveness. At the same time, people with relatives with hearing loss can also learn signs from this dictionary to communicate with their relatives, helping to shorten the communication gap between deaf and their families, creating things For the hearing impaired, there are many opportunities for community integration.

The feature of this software is the open data feature, allowing users to update the dictionaries in their own language. Therefore, this dictionary not only applies to Vietnam but also to any country that needs to build a dictionary for the hearing impaired.

Another feature is that the dictionary has been distributed free of charge to schools and parents in need. In the future, we will open source code for people to consult and adjust to suit their requirements.

E-Office products of Dong Nai, though not winning, have been highly appreciated in the application of e-Government and public services.

Ending the ceremony with the activities of solidarity and friendship between countries, in the hall of Khum Khantoke hotel, an intimate exchange was held between the participating countries.

With the scale and stature of APICTA and the benefits of the host country in many aspects such as new knowledge, ideas and technologies on ICT application are gathered about the Organizing Committee, promoting land images. water, market creation . Therefore, many countries are looking forward to hosting APICTA every year; It is thought that Vietnam should have a plan to prepare to host the APICTA organization in order to strengthen exchanges, cooperation and promote the development of Vietnam's ICT industry in the future.

News and movies by Xuan Truong - Minh Hoa, Dong Nai Department of Science and Technology transferred from Chiang Mai to Vietnam

Figure DSCF5292: Deputy Minister of Thai Ministry of Information and Telematics speaks at the ceremony

Figure DSC00985: Awarding gold cup for Vietnamese products

The content was approved by Mr. Nguyen Quy Son - Head of the Vietnamese delegation