The Computer Society of Malta held the third edition of the ICT Malta Awards at the Radisson SAS Baypoint Resort St Julian’s last month.
The evening’s cultural event started with Frances Catherine Farrugia accompanied on the piano by Dr Roberto Debono performing a number famous arias from Puccini, Lehar, Rogers & Hammerstein, among others.
Cikka Grima provided an entertaining evening of Flamenco dancing that included Alegrias 12/8 rhythm and lively songs from the Andalusia port of Cadiz. Her husband Andrej also accompanied Cikka with percussive improvisations on various flamenco styles.
Valerie Vella, assisted by Martina Vella, kept the evening running smoothly with a continuous flow of winners being announced.
The winners were as follows:
eBusiness Solutions Award: MEPA/MIIIT – Online Application System
IT Education Award: MIIIT – MyPotential
Micro Enterprise Award: Webgenix – Table Tennis Online Store
Information Society Award: TCTC – emCitizen
IT Product Award: Shireburn – Integra4Notes
IT Product Award: Computime – Lloyds Block Free Management System
IT Company Award: Datatrak Solutions Ltd
This year the Computer Society of Malta awarded two Merit Awards as follows:
R & D Awards. This award was given to Datatrak Solutions as their nomination achieved the required standard; however only one nomination was submitted.
A merit award was also given to MediaCatalyst as their nomination was deemed to be of a real high standard.
A monetary donation was also awarded to four MCAST students, Adrian Cassar, Melvin Xuereb, Justin Bonavia and Lynn Norma Russell, in recognition of the work they are doing to obtain higher diplomas in the subjects of Networking/Support and Software Development.
Finally, a Lifetime Achievement Award was made to Karm and Thomas Galea who set up Megabyte approximately 30 years ago and were always in the forefront to set up solutions to both the local private and public IT sectors.
Finally, the chairperson of the Computer Society of Malta, Anton Callus, on behalf of ECDL Malta presented an award to Dr Austin Gatt for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of digital literacy in Malta.