THE Brunei ICT Awards (BICTA) is an annual ICT competition that was first introduced in 2004 by the Ministry of Communications.
Organised with the support of Authority for Info-communications Technology Ind-ustry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) and InfoCom Federation Brunei (IFB), this year’s awards ceremony will recognise the very best of the best among the overall winners through the Royal Patron Award, which is held every alternate year.
In order to discover and encourage the best and brightest minds to participate in this year’s BICTA, the BICTA Working Committee undertook a series of roadshows in March 2016 aimed at various educational, private and government institutions at various events and venues throughout Brunei Darussalam.
These roadshows were aimed to generate interests for participation by giving an overview of BICTA and a better understanding of the selection and judging criteria.
In order to assist registered participants of this year’s BICTA competition in preparing for the judging phase, the BICTA Working Committee also organised a series of workshops aimed at equipping the participants with additional knowledge and skills which they can use in their final submissions.
During one of the workshops.
The first workshop was attended by over 100 participants, titled ‘Global ICT Trends: Opportunities for Brunei’, and was facilitated by TelBru’s Chief Marketing Officer, Lim Ming Soon. He spoke about global ICT trends and solutions, and gave an insight into TelBru’s perspectives on innovative technologies and solutions in demand.
The second workshop on Market Validation, highlighted the importance of market validation and gave valuable tips on how to ensure that a product concept meets the potential target markets.
The final workshop on Pitc-hing and Presentation Skills was designed to prepare participants for the BICTA competition parti-cularly in enhancing participant’s presentation and pitching skills to successfully articulate and convince the judges on their proposed innovative digital products.
A total of 90 participants attended the workshop, which was facilitated by AITI’s Head of Corporate Strategy and Programme Management Unit, Mohd Reza bin Nazamuddin.
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