17th APICTA Awards begins in Dhaka

The 17th edition of APICTA Awards, which is called the OSCAR of ICT, kicked off in Dhaka on Thursday.

Department of ICT of the ICT Division and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) are jointly organising the event.

The event will be held between 7 and 10 December.

Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) is working for the ICT sector development in Asia Pacific region.

Every year, it awards potential and successful entrepreneurs, software and information technology services as well as the development of information technology sector.

Bangladesh is organising this mega event for the first time.

About the event, senior vice president of BASIS and convenor of 17th APICTA Awards Dhaka 2017 Russell T Ahmed said this is the first experience for Bangladesh ICT sector to organise such an event with 400 guests from 16 countries.

“Multiple layers of security have been set for guests with helpdesk at their respective hotels,” he added.

He also said this is an ample opportunity for Bangladeshis to showcase development in ICT sector of the country in front of the international guests in the event.

Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Srilanka, Thailand and Vietnam are also members of APICTA.

For further query regarding APICTA Awards 2017 please visit www.apicta.org.bd