Dialog’s ‘APPMAKER’ wins top honours for Inclusion & Empowerment at e-Swabhimani Digital Social Impact Awards 2019

(L – R) Dushantha Ranwala, Tech Evangelist, Ideamart, Shanaka Wickramaarachchi, R&D Engineer, Ideamart, and Steve Ephraums, Director, Simato VAS Solutions Pvt LTD.

'APPMAKER', an Android application creation solution by Ideamart, a platform for developers and content providers presented by Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka's premier connectivity provider, was adjudged by a grand jury as the winner of the Inclusion and Empowerment category of the e-Swabhimani Digital Social Impact Awards.

APPMAKER was recognized by the e-Swabhimani Digital Social Impact Awards, hosted by ICTA, for providing a platform for anyone, even those with zero programming knowledge, to create an android application within 5 mins using few easy clicks and eliminating the need of creating native android development. e-Swabhimani Awards hosted by ICTA is an awarding body which recognizes outstanding, forward-thinking and truly innovative local digital solutions and hi-tech applications that have created a positive social impact by helping make society more inclusive and efficient, offering new services, and empowering citizens.

This platform is the latest app creation platform introduced by ideamart, an inspiring young and upcoming company fueled by entrepreneurship, partnering with Simato VAS Solutions Pvt LTD; and is the first and only Android app creation platform built on top of telco infrastructure. Simato Solutions has been in the Mobile Value-Added Services (VAS) business since 2008 and has been at the forefront of providing mobile content and services. Appmaker was created to simplify the process for anyone to develop a mobile application/website without any prerequisite programming experience.

APPMAKER enables users to create android applications using varieties of pre-built templates to create and customise their applications as per their requirement, where users can add categories, pages and rich media content to them. The platform provides 13 different varieties of templates for different use cases, including astrology, health and fitness, news, and e-commerce. APPMAKER allows application creators to update real-time content, send push notifications to the users, monetize the application using telco infrastructure, and upload their application to Google Play Store.

Commenting on the win, Dr. Nushad Perera, Chief Digital Services Officer at Dialog Axiata PLC said, "We are honoured to be adjudged the winner under the Inclusion and Empowerment category of the e-Swabhimani Digital Social Impact Awards, hosted by ICTA, recognising our efforts in using technology for real social impact through the combined strength of technology and social investment. We will continue to provide platforms for digital innovators of Sri Lanka and empower them to develop solutions to beget positive social change through easy-to-use, yet powerful tools such as APPMAKER."

APPMAKER comes with zero upfront fees and is free for the application creator to develop an app. At the monetising stage, the revenue sharing ratio between the platform and the application creator is 40:60. Users can visit Appmaker.lk to start developing their custom Android applications.