Fwd: Awards at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2004

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>]

     I assume you are aware of these public accolades for implementations 
of ebXML-MSG and WS-R, below.   Full announcement can be found at 
http://lists.ebxml.org/archives/ebxml-dev/200412/msg00027.html. 
Congratulations.  JBC

~   James Bryce Clark
~   Director, Standards Development, OASIS
~   +1 978 667 5115 x 203 central office

>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:35:55 +0800
>From: Patrick Yee <kcyee@cecid.hku.hk>
>To: ebxml-dev@lists.ebxml.org
>Subject: [ebxml-dev] CECID Hermes Won Merit Award at the Asia Pacific ICT 
>Awards 2004
>
>* * * Hong Kong SAR, Peoples Republic of China - December 14, 2004 - 
>Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure Development (CECID), The University 
>of Hong Kong (HKU) is pleased to announce that our open source ebXML 
>business-to-business (B2B) Messaging Server, Hermes, has won the Merit 
>Award of the R&D category at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2004. 
>This Award is presented to the most outstanding ICT R&D project, * * * the 
>APICTA Network ['s] 14 member-economies include Australia, Brunei, Hong 
>Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, 
>Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. * * *
>
>In the Tertiary Student Project category, the Web Services Reliability 
>(WSR) Messaging Server project carried out by four HKU final year students 
>also won a Merit Award. CECID is pleased to have involved in this 
>award-winning project as the coach to the students. The WSR Messaging 
>Server project aims at addressing Web Services reliability in business 
>transactions by adhering strictly to the Web Services Reliability 
>Messaging (WSRM) draft specification developed by OASIS. In addition, a 
>number of elements were injected into the architecture to enhance its 
>flexibility, scalability and extensibility. * * *
>
>This year the Awards was held in Hong Kong on 8-11 December 2004, with a 
>presentation ceremony and gala dinner held on 10 December 2004. An Asia 
>Pacific ITC Awards Pavilion was also set up at the Asia Pacific IT 
>Solutions Expo 2004 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre on 
>8-11 December 2004, displaying over 40 outstanding IT solutions * * *
>* * *
>
>About Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) (www.apicta.com)
>     The Asia Pacific ICT Awards * * * is an international Awards Program
>initiated by the Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia to 
>increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the Digital 
>Divide. * * *
>
>About CECID (www.cecid.hku.hk)
>     Established in January 2002, Center for E-Commerce Infrastructure
>Development (CECID) at the University of Hong Kong conducts e-commerce 
>research and development with the vision of helping organizations increase 
>their competitiveness in the global economy. CECID develops e-commerce 
>enabling technologies, participates in important international e-commerce 
>initiatives, supports e-commerce standardization for Hong Kong and the 
>Asia Pacific Region, and transfers e-commerce technology and skills to the 
>community. * * *