NBQSA 2009 winners won special merit awards at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards competition held from 14 - 17 December 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.
APICTA competition consists of sixteen categories and each member country is eligible to nominate up to 3 products for each category. After a rigorous judging process the winner of each category is awarded a trophy, while the 2nd placed product is awarded the Merit Award, provided the difference of the points received by the 2nd is not more than 5% of that of the winner.
Four Sri Lankan participants won Merit awards at the APICTA 2009 which is one of the highest number of merit awards won by any country that participated APICTA 2009. They are:
| Category | Nominee |
|---|---|
| Financial Industry Applications | Epic Lanka Pvt. Ltd. for Epic Lifetime Banking |
| Tourism and Hospitality | Scienter Technologies (Pte) Ltd. for Destinity |
| Tertiary Student Project | M. K. Lahiru Priyadarshana of Informatics Institute of Technology for iDisplay |
| Tertiary Student Project | E. Amani I. Soysa of Informatics Institute of Technology for ChordATune - An Emotion based Melody Harmonizer for Piano Music |
