NOMINATIONS are now complete - and the winners are here !
As part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process and in my capacity with the United Nations and the World Summit Awards (WSA), I was nominated to judge the nominated websites/Internet applications for the Swiss WSA National Contest. I led a committee of Internet experts and practitioners that chose 8 winners for the best websites/application - based in Switzerland - in each of the following 8 categories (see category details below ).
1. e-Government & Institutions
2. e-Health & Environment
3. e-Learning & Education
4. e-Entertainment & Games
5. e-Culture & Heritage
6. e-Science & Technology
7. e-Business & Commerce
8. e-Inclusion & Participation
The Swiss national winners in each category have been nominated to the 2009 Global Summit Awards at the Gala event that will take place in Monterrey, Mexico (Sept 2-4, 2009). About Global Summit Award The World Summit Award (WSA) is the global contest to select best practice in e-Content and innovative ICT applications. WSA is the global initiative to select and promote the world's best e-Content and innovative ICT applications. WSA was started in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as a contribution of the Austrian Government to the global effort to bridge the digital divide and close the content gap. WSA activities include national contests and selections of best practice, a global contest held every 2 years and content-focused national and international conferences with exhibitions — the WSA Road Show. WSA works to strengthen entrepreneurship within content industries and to bring about economic and cultural development through the creative use of ICTs. It supports the UN Millennium Development Goals of ending poverty, hunger and disease, saving the environment and giving a fair share to women. WSA is an invitation project and a global activity for all who share the understanding of the crucial importance of excellent e-Content creation within the information society. Partners in over 160 UN member states are actively involved in WSA. Categories & RulesHealth, politics, business, science, education, culture, but also entertainment — these are the most crucial social issues of every-day life for everybody. To further improve their knowledge in these fields, people from everywhere — rich or poor — must have access to quality e-Contents and applications. The judging committee will nominate and submit ONE winner for each of the 8 categories listed below: - 1. e-Government & Institutions
Delivering complete services in public administrations to individuals, businesses and organisations combined with organisational change in order to significantly improve services and democratic processes and strengthen support to public policies; fostering quality and efficiency of information exchange; empowering citizens and public services clients. - 2. e-Health & Environment
Developing the client-centered model of health care where stakeholders collaborate, utilizing ICT, including internet technologies to manage health issues as well as the health care system; meeting the needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, as well as policy makers. - 3. e-Learning & Education
Serving the needs of learners to acquire knowledge and skills for a complex and globalizing world; transforming schools, universities and other educational institutions through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources; creating active e-learning communities and target models and solutions for corporate training as well as life-long learning. - 4. e-Entertainment & Games
Supplying digitized entertainment products and services; entertaining the user in this world’s variety of languages and its cultural diversity; supporting movement from one-way to two-way, from single to multiple players, interactive entertainment and the synergy between analog and digital platforms. - 5. e-Culture & Heritage
Preserving and presenting cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future; demonstrating valuable cultural assets clearly and informatively using state-of-the-art technology; developing the diversity of cultures and sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies. - 6. e-Science & Technology
Fostering global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it; providing measures to promote and demonstrate scientific processes and make them accessible to citizens; scientific projects articulated through new media. - 7. e-Business & Commerce
Support and optimization of business processes; creation of new business models in e-commerce and m-commerce, business to business, business to consumers, internet security and other areas; supporting SMEs on the marketplace; using ICTs for buying and selling as well as servicing customers and collaborating with business partners. - 8. e-Inclusion & Participation
Measures supporting integration of the global information society; bringing least developed countries into the knowledge society; reducing “digital divides” between technology-empowered and technology-excluded communities and groups such as rural areas and women; bridging society and strengthening social and political participation of individuals and groups through ICTs.
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