 |
|
 |
World Summit Award
The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global
initiative for
selecting and promoting the World’s best
e-Contents. It
involves representatives from numerous countries
on each
continent and sees the bridging of the digital
divide and
narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.
The WSA
places its emphasis on cultural diversity and
identity,
the creation of varied information content and the
digitalization educational, scientific and
cultural
heritage. The project is held in the framework of
and in
cooperation with the World Summit on the
Information
Society (WSIS) 2003-2005-2007.
WSA EXPERT PANEL
In spring 2003 the leading organisations,
associations and
professional institutions in the new media sector
in all
United Nations member states were invited to
nominate
their country’s most recognised multimedia experts
for the
WSA 03 Expert Panel. A total of 399 national
nominations
were received only one expert per country was
appointed to
exclusively represent his/her country in the
framework of
the WSA 03.
In consultation with other experts and
institutions and in
many cases using the results of national awards
and
contests, the experts took the responsibility for
proposing the eight, in his/her opinion, best
practice
examples in e-Content& creativity from his/her
country in
the WSA categories.
As a result 136 countries have taken part in a
worldwide
initiative to select, evaluate and promote the
best
practice examples in e-Content and creativity and a
total
of 803 project nominations have been proposed as
WSA 03
national finalists.
WSA GRAND JURY
The WSA Grand Jury, which met in Dubai from
October 17-22,
brought together national experts from 36
countries,
representing all continents and a diverse range of
languages and cultures. All 803 nominated products
were
evaluated in a three rounds judging process and
the
World’s Best e-Contents (5 products in each of the
8 WSA
categories) were selected. Further 21 products
(best in
the major world regions) were awarded with a
special
mention.
WSA HIGH PATRONS
2003:
Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of the People’s
Republic
of Bangladesh
Romano Prodi, Former President of the European
Commission
Wolfgang Schüssel, Federal Chancellor of the
Republic of
Austria
Néstor Carlos Kirchner, President of Argentina
Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of the
Republicof
Tunisia |
|
|
Associated with
}Bangladesh Multimedia Association
}Bangladesh Youth Forum on ICT
}International Center for New Media
}ICT Village
In Partnership with
World Summit Award
|
|
Copyright ©2007
The e-Content World
All rights reserved
|
|
|
 |
|
