Innovation at the Frontier

SENADA and Microsoft Indonesia jointly held an award ceremony on 26 February at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jakarta to announce the three winners of the iMULAI competition. This competition, designed to highlight the important role that innovation plays in enhancing Indonesian competitiveness, solicited proposals for the design of innovative software and business solutions and generated 106 submissions.
The awards, attended by US Ambassador Cameron R. Hume, go to these three winners:
PT Dycode Cominfotech Development, for “Portmap,” a web-based and internetbased application for port management.
Laboratory of Logistics & Supply Chain Management, ITS SURABAYA, for “Application Software to Optimize Product Shipment Consolidation.” This software will permit small firms within an industrial cluster to consolidate their shipments, for more efficient allocation of transportation resources.
PT Sentra Solusi Integrasi, for its “Mobile Application Development for Inventory Management.” This application uses mobile devices (wi-fi) to perform a variety of inventory management tasks.
The winners are receiving hardware and software from Microsoft and up to $75,000 in grant financing for innovation costs for six months from SENADA.
(Competitiveness at the Frontier, Mar 2008)