AMRISTAR SOLUTIONS WINS MAJOR AWARD FOR i-DELVE TECHNOLOGY

November 3rd, 2002

Amristar Solutions, a small Perth company, last night won a prestigious award at the national Asia Pacific ICT Awards (the APICTAs), held at Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast. Finalists from all over Australia and New Zealand attended the awards ceremony. Amristar received the award in the category of Smart ICT (Information Communication Technology) for their innovative i-delve technology, a unique web-based mapping solution. PIVoD Technologies also won in the same category, the judges being unable to choose between the two WA companies.

Mr. Sonny Tham, director of Amristar Solutions, accepted the award. "This kind of recognition is very important to us", he said. "It gives us impetus to expand nationally and internationally. The fact that two local companies won in the same category serves to highlight the degree of world-class IT innovation that originates over here in Perth". The award includes automatic entry to the international version of the APICTAs, including airfares and accommodation, where Amristar will compete against finalists from fourteen countries. Last month, aussiehome.com, another Perth company, won two awards at the WA version of the APICTAs for their "unique map-based property site" that incorporates Amristar's i-delve technology.

Developed in-house by Amristar, and over two years in the making, i-delve is a client/server technology that was designed specifically to allow Internet users to intuitively interact with large amounts of spatial data over typically low-bandwidth connections. It is an extremely visually impressive application of innovative, locally developed technology. i-delve is currently being prototyped for local and state government agencies throughout WA and NSW, with negotiations with the Queensland government arising as a direct consequence of winning the award. For more information, contact Jason Hutchens via the contact details given at the top of this media release.

Amristar Solutions is an intelligent IT innovation company. Its founders are all highly successful engineering graduates of the University of Western Australia. Amristar specialises in providing intelligent IT solutions for business, and actively pursues research and development into new proprietary technologies such as i-delve. For more information contact Jason Hutchens as above.

The Asia Pacific ICT Awards (the APICTAs) aim to stimulate economic and employment growth, trade relations, technology transfer, business matching programs and world attention to the region by implementing an internationally recognised program constructed with regional cooperation and = incorporating community awareness and industry. For more information contact Sueanne Brownhill, Australian Marketing Manager, on +61-7-3511-6200 or +61-412-035-536.