Award Stream

1.   Green, Healthy & Creative Living

– Any ICT-based products/ services/ applications/ programs which can facilitate green lifestyle; or
– Any health related ICT may include any product/ application/ information website for improving medical related knowledge, providing self-checking or for improving personal health; or
– Any innovative ICT-based applications/ products/ websites that promote creative as well as comfortable, quality lifestyle such as:

2.   Learning & Living

• Any applications/ products/ website with the use of ICT in facilitating learning in new and innovative style, such as:
• Website offering informative content for online learning.
• Locally produced hardware that facilitates learning via the network e.g. tablet, PCs, smart phones.
• Applications such as mobile or online applications that provide good learning experience or helps users better acquire or use the learning materials/ content more effectively.
• Learning materials such as multi-media based learning or training materials.

Target participants (include but not limited to): ICT-based hardware or software developers, schools, or companies which develop, commission and adopt innovative products, services, applications or programs to promote eLearning, etc.

3.   Social, Communications & Media

• Any applications/ websites/ products/ services and platforms with the use of ICT to:
• Create and facilitate online community, connectedness and/ or communication around on shared interest; and/ or
• Display a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture and behaviour; and/ or
• Encourage consumer or public engagement; and/ or
• Open new possibilities as marketing and PR tools, etc.
• Examples include but not limited to: social gaming, micro-blogging, online video, online newspaper, digital radio, internet radio, WebTV, webzines etc.

Target participants (include but not limited to): Social media developers, digital advertising companies, digital media, mobile or digital marketing solutions providers, or companies which develop, commission and adopt innovative digital communication products, services or solution etc.

Special Mention

Each applicant to the above award streams can nominate its entry for the below special recognition(s) (if applicable):

• Special Mention for Silver Power

To appreciate and encourage the IT development and adoption for betterment of aged people’s quality of life

• Special Mention for Cloud Computing

To appreciate and encourage the IT development and adoption for Cloud Computing

Examples include but not limited to: solution leveraging open data, data sharing etc.