Hong Kong - The Second Hong Kong International Software Contest rules are released and the gold winners will receive $100,000 in prizes.

The first Hong Kong International Software Contest was successfully held in Zhuhai, China on March 11th, 2011, and attracted tens of thousands of Chinese participating software companies and media outlets. More than 1,000 people attended the awards ceremony, including: Sohu, FRANCISCO, China Software agent Network, local TV stations, People's Daily, Wen Wei Po, CSDN, local chambers of commerce, universities and software industry associations, local software company executives, CEOs of listed companies, municipal government guests and the contest had tremendous social and economic effects. To find out more details please visit http://en.hkisc.com/

The Second Hong Kong International Software contest awards ceremony will be held in The Great Hall of the People, Beijing, China, March 11th, 2013 with prize money, trophies and certificates. Hundreds of news media, government officials, venture capital institutions and software agents will attend the ceremony.

10 Gold Award winners will receive a total of US $100,000 in prize money and through the lucky draw will be given US $ 1,000, iPhones, software licensing and other prizes.

The Second Hong Kong International Software Contest rules are as follows:

1. Competition: the Second International Software Contest mainly uses network display and network votes.

2. The Contest: The Second International Software Contest uses points registration, online voting and the expert assessment in three stages, each stage of the selection results will be published on the web.

- Online application registration, software submitted on http://www.softwaredownloads.org with September 18th as deadline. Affiliates, flash games, key loggers, beta, version 1.x, ebooks are not accepted for nomination.

- Voting stage is September 18th, 2012 - November 18th, 2012. The participating businesses or individuals can access the International Software Industry Association (http://www.softwaredownloads.org/) for the software voting code and voting code placed on the participating business or personal sites, Twitter, Facebook,etc. The home page of the International Software Industry Association will always show you the top 100 software and links.

- Gold Medals: After the end of voting on November 18th, from top 100, a panel of experts will generate 10 gold software winners according to the comprehensive evaluation of innovation and market prospects. Top 100 software will be posted to the International Software Industry Association Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/softwaredownloads.org) and on Twitter (http://twitter.com/download_site). One can get the most popular prize and gold medal or both.

3. The Awards Ceremony: The Second International Software Contest awards ceremony will be held in The Great Hall of the People, Beijing, China, March 11th, 2013.

4. Prizes and Awards:

- Gold Award winners will receive each a US$10,000 prize, the 2nd Hong Kong International Software contest trophy and certificate, plus one million dollars in advertising on the home page of http://www.softwaredownloads.org/

- Of the 100 software to obtain the second place of the Hong Kong International Software contest, their software will be translated into Chinese and recommended to software agents.

- All winners are free to attend the Second International Software Contest Awards Ceremony.

Hong Kong International Software Contest is a trademark of International Software Industry Association.

For more info please visit http://www.softwaredownloads.org/ and http://en.hkisc.com/