{"id":2225,"date":"2025-03-25T18:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ictawards.hkcss.org.hkabout-the-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T02:05:11","slug":"about-the-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ictawards.hkcss.org.hk\/en\/about-the-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2225\" class=\"elementor elementor-2225 elementor-1576\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-271d6ca6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"271d6ca6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ac3af7b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4ac3af7b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6675bfe8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6675bfe8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the Awards<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-000bf24 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"000bf24\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad7383b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad7383b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Hong Kong ICT Awards (HKICTA) aims at recognising and promoting outstanding information and communications technology (ICT) inventions and applications, thereby encouraging innovation and excellence among local<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u00a0ICT talent and enterprises in their constant pursuit of creative and better solutions to meet business and social needs.<\/span><\/p><p>The HKICTA was established in 2006 with the collaborative efforts of the industry, academia and the Government. 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