PriceArea Launches ITeCS Awards for Indonesian E-Commerce

PriceArea, the price comparison search engine that aggregates data from e-commerce sites in Indonesia, has launched ITeCS, an event to award Indonesia’s best e-tailers.

ITeCS (which is short for Indonesia Top E-Commerce Sites), will evaluate more than 2,500 e-commerce sites (most of which are aggregated by PriceArea) across six categories: best design, best innovation, best payment solution, best B2C electronics sales, best social media campaign, and best small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME). The nominations process has started since earlier this month and will end later this week. So far they have received over 1,000 nominations. After all that ends, the voting will start and then go on until September 10, 2012, followed by the long-awaited awards night on October 18, 2012.

The winners will be judged by both public voting and selected judges, which will make the public – or, rather, e-commerce users in the country – get involved actively by voting for his/her favourite e-commerce sites. PriceArea has a referral feature to help nominees to pool their votes and drum up more support. Not only that, there will be points and rewards for the most active voters/users in this award. PriceArea is also giving out IDR 3 million (US$325) weekly in total to the top referral starting 2nd August to boost the number of voters.

At the same time, the ITeCS awards will make a special page for articles regarding the Indonesia e-commerce industry and at the same time publish interviews with the selected nominees, thereby helping spread knowledge and information about these e-tailers in Indonesia. After the making of idEA, this is another positive move for the e-commerce ecosystem in Indonesia. PriceArea itself is still growing quickly and I’ve heard that it is about to announce something interesting soon, so stay tuned!