The Grand Jury
of the World Summit Award (WSA) examines almost 500 of the world’s best
e-Content Websites and ICT projects from August 29 to 31, WSA says in a news
release.
CityBugs.am
project of X-TECH Armenian company is nominated for the World Summit Award.
“We hope we
will win. This is very important for us,” Hovhannes Aghajanyan, head of
CityBugs.am project, representative of X-TECH company, told Panorama.am.
CityBugs.am is
a website on challenges faced by Yerevan. Its motto is “Let us make our city a
better place to live in.”
In the first
round of the international competition, an online jury will now valuate the
ventures, creating a shortlist of 15-20 projects in each of the eight
categories.
After this, in
a three-day process in late August, the WSA Grand Jury, consisting of
international renowned ICT experts and industry leaders, will meet in
Tallinn/Estonia to evaluate the submissions from the remaining nominees and
select the 40 best products. The jury members of the Grand Jury come from all
continents and have backgrounds in the creative industries, telecommunication,
advertising, journalism and research, as well as in teaching. The jury will be
hosted by national partners such as the Estonian ICT Cluster.
Finally, the 40
world's best e-Content applications (5 products in each of the WSA categories)
are selected to present their products in front of an international audience in
Colombo/Sri Lanka from Oct. 23 to Oct. 25.
After the
selection in Estonia, the 40 WSA winners will get the chance to present their
products at the WSA World Congress in Sri Lanka, Oct. 23 to Oct. 25. The event
will offer a platform for high level experts, industry leaders and government
representatives to discuss innovation in mobile content. At the event, an on
sight jury will again evaluate the products to select eight overall winners:
The WSA Global Champions 2013.
The World
Summit Award (WSA) is the global follow-up initiative of the United Nations
World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) organised by the International
Center for New Media (ICNM), Salzburg, Austria. It partners with the key UN
organisations and agencies in the framework of the UN Geneva Agenda and the
Tunis Action Plan and selects and promotes the world's best e-Content and
innovative ICT applications; to date more than 160 countries are actively
involved. Through national pre-selections and contests together with a global
jury process, WSA demonstrates the local diversity and rich creativity of ICT
use. WSA is a global hub for everyone who values the crucial importance of
local content to make today’s information society more inclusive.
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