World e-Content Winners announced

CTA

22 October 2007

China, Italy, Mexico, and the Russian Federation are the clear winners in the 2007 World Summit Awards which show the global trends in e-Content within the United Nations Member States, in the judgement of a 32 members Grand Jury from all continents which had met in Croatia.

China won in the categories of e-Entertainment (\\\"Xplus Personalized Digital Media Distribution Platform\\\"), e-Business (\\\"DigitalCopyright.hk\\\"), and e-Science (\\\"China Digital Science and Technology Museum�). Italy did its best in e-Science (�The Metopes of Selinunte�), e-Learning (�Musicbus�) and e-Health (�ULSS Asolo Medical Network�), Mexico - in e-Government (\\\"ATM Express Government\\\"), e-Entertainment (\\\"indigo - brain media\\\"), and e-Business (\\\"National Financing - Development Bank�), and the Russian Federation succeeded in e-Science (\\\"Virtual Atomic Energy Museum\\\"), e-Inclusion (\\\"Infoblago.ru\\\"), and e-Entertainment (\\\"Dom-3\\\").

The World Summit Awards were started in the framework of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society as an initiative from Austria and are the world�s premier contest for excellence in e-content and creativity. They honour producers of interactive multimedia and innovative ICT applications and are the only awards supported by a Public Private Partnership between professional organisations, industry, governments and UN organisations.

WSA identifies high-quality e-Content products and promotes the most outstanding achievements worldwide in collaboration with the UN Secretary-General�s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, UNESCO and UNIDO. It is a global not-for-profit activity governed by a Board of world-leading multimedia experts and supported by an office at the International Center for New Media in Salzburg, Austria.

�Success with a World Summit Award helps creative individuals and innovative companies no matter where they are from or how much cash they have. WSA addresses the global issues of Digital Divide and the Content Gap and thus contributes in an intelligent way to the achievements of the UN Millennium Development Goals� says Professor Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the WSA Board of Directors.

Key sponsors include the mobile telecom group ZAIN from Kuwait and the Internet Society. WSA sets standards in excellence for e-content globally and makes world leaders aware of the richness and diversity of e-content in order to narrow the Content Gap.

The WSA 07 Gala will celebrate the winners on November 5, 2007 at the annual conference on the Global Forum on Shaping the Future (November 5th-7th) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy. The winners will be presenting their awards winning products at the two day WSA Winners Conference in Venice on November 3rd and 4th also in Venice.