WSA 07 Awards in Venice (13)

Category: e-Entertainment

The category e-Entertainment calls forth many expectations about multiplayer games and mobile games. Yet the jury has gone into different directions like electronic magazines as Indigo from Mexico and the 8 million circulation XPlus. Desert Rebel is a multimedia website with outstanding music. Most exciting is the Binar-e-World from Venezuela, a site about a computer theme parc, including the history of computing. Boys and girls is an Arab edutainment site.

Title: Indigo - Brain Media
Media Format: cross media
URL: http://www.indigomedia.com/
Producer: ÍndigoMedia
Country: Mexico
Description of the Product
Publishing goes broadband. Indigo is an independent multimedia application published weekly by digital publishing group whose products seek to provide entertainment and understanding rather than mere information. The user experience is provided by interactive tools, videos, animations, and audio in a variety of forms including electronic broadcasting, streaming, and on-demand delivery. Indigo combines in an excellent and seamless fashion publishing and multimedia design. The result is a media experience in which users read, see, hear, touch, and feel each article through the most up-to-date, cutting-edge technology. Every Friday, readers can enjoy the Indigo experience free of charge on topics such as politics, economics, culture, society, sports, and many more.

Title: Xplus
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: xplus.com.cn
Producer: Nuchannel science and technologies (Shengshi) Company Limited
Country: China
Description of the Product
Publishing is personal. Xplus is a most powerful digital publishing and content distribution platform from China, with an average monthly readership of 8.7 million people. Xplus utilizes its own developed data mining tools to analyze readers’ preferences and provide subscribers contents that fit to their tastes. The platform features user friendly and powerful tools to enable individuals, SMEs and large scale traditional media companies to develop original, creative and interactive digital contents online. Content owners can leverage their own content with branded contents, advertising partners, rich-media presentations and online delivery services to reach more audiences and be successful in their own media business online.

Title: Desert Rebel
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: http://www.desertrebel.com/
Producer: Original dub master
Country: France
Description of the Product
e-content is rebellious. Desert Rebel is the first from a series of documentaries on cultures of resistance across the world. Entitled “Culture & Resistance” the concept is the brainchild of French film director François Bergeron who aims at meeting artists to overturn history and free political stereotypes and national amnesias. The website is the start of the development of a multimedia platform for the diffusion of crossover cultural programs allowing users to listen to Desert Rebel music and watch videos from Niger. Desert Rebel is a beautiful multimedia website with outstanding music, a forum for worldwide citizen engagement and community building tools, benefiting durable development of schools in Niger and the collaboration of artists from Europe, Africa and South America.

Title: Binary World
Title in Original Language: Mundo Binario: El parque de atracciones con la computadora más grande del mundo
Media Format: cross media
URL: http://www.mundobinario.net/
Producer: Tecno Atracciones C.A.
Country: Venezuela
Description of the Product
A computer is content. Binar-e-World is the world´s first Information Technology theme park that has made it possible for everyone to travel inside physically a computer. The giant Computer is an impressive building located in the city of Valencia, Venezuela. It has a giant 740 inch computer monitor, a qwerty keyboard of 16m length, a CPU 10m high and a mouse the size of a compact car. Its a one-of-a-kind edutainment destination that combines a walkthrough with rides similar to those at famous amusement parks, full of animatronics and special effects. Binar-e-World explains in a fun way the past, present and applications of Information technology thus making it friendlier, attractive and accessible to everyone, no matter which age, sex or economic status.

Title: Boys and Girls
Media Format: broadband/online
URL: http://www.islamweb.net/
Producer: islamweb.net
Country: Qatar
Description of the Product
e-content is amazing. “Boys and Girls” is an Arabic online interactive edutainment site from Qatar dedicated to kids worldwide. The site includes different types of edutainment materials aimed towards establishing good manners and ethics in the life of kids in addition to providing scientific and historical information with a special focus on topics related to the Arab world and Islamic culture. The site is being updated on weekly basis by adding new movies and applications. “Boys and Girls” conveys its message and information with the help of interactive games, competitions, songs and movies covering nine different subjects.

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Tags: e-Entertainment