Friday, May 23, 2008

Car, world’s smallest tablet PC, Nokia Lamborghini phone to be auctioned at WCIT 2008 gala dinner

Kuala Lumpur: A Proton Persona 1.6 Automatic and a special edition Nokia Lamborghini mobile phone will be among the highlights of a special auction at tonight’s gala dinner of the 16th World Congress on Information Technology here.
The auction will be conducted by the world’s leading auction house Christie’s, and will benefit a special pilot project to set up ICT centres to teach basic computer usage to selected communities in Malaysia.

The items up for auction have been donated by marquee, keynote and high-profile speakers of WCIT 2008.

The Proton car was donated by Proton, while the Nokia Lamborghini phone was contributed by Jari Tammisto, the CEO of Mobile Monday.

Besides the car and the mobile phone, the other items on the block are:
• authorized original artwork cells for Rugrats by Terry Thoren, CEO of Rocket Fish Studios;• ceramic pottery by Iskandar Jalil, Singapore’s master sculptor of ceramics, donated by Lee Boon Yang, Singapore’s Information, Communications and the Arts Minister;• a dinner with local celebrity and WCIT 2008 Ambassador Hannah Tan;• a Tumasek pewter piece from PIKOM;• a rose wood Spanish guitar, donated by Harres Tan, the Group CEO of HT Consulting;• a one-of-a-kind, first of its kind Tablet PC, the smallest in the world, donated by Mimos;• a Batik painting, donated by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi;• a solar lantern, from Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change; and• an original sketch by Datuk Mohd Nor Khalid, also known as Lat.

WCIT 2008, which started on Monday, May 19, and will end on Wednesday, May 21, has more than 3,000 delegates from the IT world all over the world descend on Kuala Lumpur, to exchange ideas, conclude business deals and exchange views on issues and future trends in the industry.

As a measure of the size of the congress, the organizers said a total of 19,845 bread rolls, 46,515 cups of coffee and tea will be served by more than 300 waiters during the three day event.