Hong Kong entries to the Asia Pacific ICT Information and Communications Awards (APICTA) 2015 raked in a total of 10 prizes, including 1 Grand Award and 9 Merits.
According to the Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), an Executive Committee Member of APICTA, this is the fifth consecutive year that Hong Kong topped the event in the total number of awards among all participating Asia-Pacific economies.
With 16 participating Asia Pacific economies, APICTA is an internationally recognized awards program aimed to increase ICT awareness in the community and stimulate innovation and creativity generated for and from ICT by providing networking and product benchmarking opportunities to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region.
“APICTA has affirmed Hong Kong of its efforts and dedication towards the development of the local ICT industry,” said Michael Leung, president of the HKCS. “This year, Hong Kong representatives achieved incredible results and we hope that it will encourage the industry to continually strive for excellence.”
Among Hong Kong’s delegates was TFI Digital Media (TFI), whose Hermes OTT Video Solution, won the Grand Award for the category of media and entertainment technology.
Compared to traditional terrestrial broadcasting, OTT broadcasting has very little geographical limitations, does not require government licensing, and supports two-way interaction between users and content source.
TFI's OTT platform covers six main areas of service — video encoding, content management, advertising, streaming and distribution, big data analytics, and machine learning recommendation engineering and marketing.