Time for something lighter – the Winners of the PASHA ICT Awards 2007 were announced by Jawwad Farid officially tonight. The winners also automatically get to present in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Singapore in November.

Here’s the full list:

Financial Applications:
Winner: Kolachi Advanced Technologies – Product: XTreme
Merit: Netsol Technologies – Product: LeaseSoft

Communication Applications:
Winner: PixSense – Product: Pixsense PSP

General Applications:
Winner: Core Digital Frameworks Pvt Ltd – Product: CDF Snip (<– Hey that’s us! Yay!)

E-Government & E-Community Applications:

Winner: Netsol Technologies – Product: Motor Transport Management Information System
Merit: Kalsoft Pvt Ltd – Product: Electoral Roll System for Election Commission of Pakistan

Start-Up Company
Winner: Amaana

Media & Entertainment Applications
Winner: Si3 – Product: News, Information, Entertainment & Community Services Portal

Security Applications
Winner: Secure Auditor by Secur-Bytes

So, a small shameless plug:

CDF has won the ICT Award 2007 for our flagship product CDF Snip.

How? Well remember back in July when I used to complain about the quality of engineering resources? Since then I’ve met some people who’ve really made me a believer again.

Our team of engineers are now the few, the proud, the fire-bellied guys who are fearless about doing the impossible — all the while demonstrating thought-leadership and creative analysis. They have insight in security, usability, architecture, performance and other specific areas. The best part of my day now is that I can learn from them and together we all increase our collective knowledge.

This team put in the extra hours and made the extra effort to make sure our product’s experience followed our concepts – these people deserve the award.

We’re still going to be in stealth mode for a bit but I’m thankful to P@SHA and the judging committee for giving us some ratification on our product and direction.

CDF Snip is the second product out of CDF – the first being Green & White as a content platform.