The Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) is an international Awards Program initiated by the Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the Digital Divide. Participants of the Awards Program comprise 16 members of the APICTA Network countries include Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. The APICTA awards are in different categories such as:

• Applications and Infrastructure Tools
• Communication Applications
• Education and Training
• E-Government and Services
• Financial Applications
• Healthcare
• Industrial Applications
• Media and Entertainment
• Research and Development

This year Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA-2005) in ‘Communication Application’ Category is won by CT Asia for their innovative “InfoCentrix Multimedia Contact Center Solution”. This award is presented to Mr. Chalermpon Punnotok, CEO, CT Asia during an event organized on February 19th in Chiang Mai, Thailand for its efforts in creating a solution, which is unique in design and providing positive customer experience and benefiting many of the international enterprises who are using the solution. The nominees of the Award were winners from their own countries which include PCCW Ltd from Hong Kong, Bluengine Asia Pacific from Singapore, Green Packet from Malaysia, PT Telekomunikasi from Indonesia.

Addressing to the press, Mr. Chalermpon appreciated the efforts of Thai Software engineers and their software designing ability. It’s a great achievement for our company to win such a prestigious award among many Asia Pacific companies. CT Asia is well known for its track record of implementing contact center solution to many large and medium enterprises, which include Fortune 500 companies. CT Asia is having consistent exponential growth since its establishment and has international presence by implementing solutions in UK, China and providing IT Services to US, Chinese and Singaporean companies, he added.

Before the nominee for the APICTA 2005 awards, CT Asia won Thailand ICT Awards, organized by joint efforts of Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), The Association of Thai ICT Industry (ATCI) and Ministry of ICT, Thailand to encourage Thai IT companies to innovate IT solutions in different categories. The award is well recognized in Thai IT Industry and awarded to the companies for their extraordinary efforts in product development for the betterment of society.