World
Summit Award (WSA)
The World Summit Award (WSA) is
a global initiative for selecting and promoting the best in
e-Content and creativity. It sees the bridging of the digital
divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal and,
as of today, involves representatives from 136 countries on all
five continents.
The project is an initiative of the European Academy of Digital
Media (EADIM) and is held in the framework of and in cooperation
with the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Peter A. Bruck
WSA Chairman of the Board
WSA NATIONAL NOMINATIONS
In spring 2003 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 EXPERT
NOMINATIONS were received and 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 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.
Participating countries:
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Argentina Armenia Australia Austria
Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Benin Bhutan
Bolivia Bosnia-Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi
Cameroon Canada Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Côte
d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic People's
Republic of Korea Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti
Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Estonia Ethiopia Finland
France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea Haiti
Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan
Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Latvia Lebanon Lithuania Luxembourg Malawi
Malaysia Mali Malta Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Monaco Mongolia Morocco
Mozambique Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway
Pakistan Panama PapuaNew Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland
Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea Romania Russian Federation Rwanda Saint
Lucia Samoa Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Singapore
Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Swaziland Sweden
Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic Thailand The Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia Togo Tunisia Turkey Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom United Republic of Tanzania United States of America
Uruguay UzbekistanVenezuela Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe
The WSA global contest will be launched in October 2004 and will be open
to all producers and companies in United Nations’ members states without
discrimination in terms of language, technological platform or
nationality of submitters. The national pre-selection will be made
through the WSA 2005 Expert Panel and/or national WSA contests.
Submitting to the WSA contest is possible through national experts ONLY.
The Grand Jury evaluation, where the nominees and the winners of the WSA
05 will be selected, will take place in August/September 2005. The
winners will be announced at the Winners Gala in Tunisia 2005, November
17th, during second phase of the WSIS.
Further details are available at:
World Summit Award Office
ICNM - International Center for New Media
Moosstrasse 43a | 5020 Salzburg | Austria
Tel +43 662 630408 | Fax +43 662 630408-22 |
Email: wsis-award@icnm.net
Web: www.wsis-award.org
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