On Tuesday it was back to the City for a meeting with the ad agency Wundermann. The meeting had been arranged by Anya, the Russian representative in the network of Wundermann. She arranged it in her capacity as representative on the board of World Summit Award. And she had done a good job in instructing her colleagues. Besides a well filled breakfast table, the WSYA delegation found that her colleagues had prepared themselves very well.
The idea was to present 6 WSYA projects and have them reviewed by three experts of Wundermann. They started out with the observation, that times were changing. The change from analog to digital covered the period of 1960 to 1995, but now they saw something new coming, something they could not give a name. Yet they felt something new coming up: the post-digital period. And the examples delivered by the WSYA winners, gave them a glance of the future. Of course this was a great compliment for all the six presenters. After each presentation a review by the three experts were given and they also gave hints about expansion or improvement. Some WSYA winners got advice where large companies would pay for dearly.
The session at Wundermann’s offices made me realise that this year’s group of winners were special and of a very professional level. It was not only enthusiasm that was driving them, but they had skills and a professional level of approach. They knew quite clearly what they were doing and what they wanted. They will also be heard in social media in the future.
It was also clear that this type of sessions with committed experts are going to help the WSYA winners. Besides experts from an ad agency they should also be brought into contact with venture capital/seed people. This combination should give them new inspiration for their projects.
BPN 1431
Showing posts with label World Summit Youth Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Summit Youth Award. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
BPN 1431: New York: here is the WSYA (3)
This Sunday many of the teams will get their first dive into New York. For many team members it is the first time that they are in the big Apple. And as the world leaders gather at the United nations for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Review Summit in New York, people will stand up and ask attention for the goals. In New York this happens at Lincoln Center.
The members of the winning team start working on placards and T shirts to make known the MDG they ask attention for. And then they go up to Lincoln Center: metro in and metro out, through Central Park. After taking photographs the winner team members start to look around and listen to the speakers. There is an information market with some 20 booth. A music band plays in between speakers who stand up. There are some ten TV crews. However the public attention is very disappointing.
Being in New York for the first time and then immediately standing up and speaking out for your MDG, requests some courage. But some of the WSYA winners do. A winner from Pakistan was standing and listening to people talking about Pakistan. He concluded that those people had good intention, but had never been in Pakistan and experience the poverty, increased by the floods, and social situations. So he got up the stage and took the microphone to tell from daily experience.
In the evening the WSYA winners went to the Hard Rock Café on Times Square for dinner, offered by one of the sponsors. Before getting food the winner would have to tell about their project. It had an estranging effect to talk about poverty in the environment of abundance of the artefacts donated by popstars such as beautiful guitars. After the meal, the group had to find its way back to the hotel in Long Island City.
BPN: 1431
The members of the winning team start working on placards and T shirts to make known the MDG they ask attention for. And then they go up to Lincoln Center: metro in and metro out, through Central Park. After taking photographs the winner team members start to look around and listen to the speakers. There is an information market with some 20 booth. A music band plays in between speakers who stand up. There are some ten TV crews. However the public attention is very disappointing.
Being in New York for the first time and then immediately standing up and speaking out for your MDG, requests some courage. But some of the WSYA winners do. A winner from Pakistan was standing and listening to people talking about Pakistan. He concluded that those people had good intention, but had never been in Pakistan and experience the poverty, increased by the floods, and social situations. So he got up the stage and took the microphone to tell from daily experience.
In the evening the WSYA winners went to the Hard Rock Café on Times Square for dinner, offered by one of the sponsors. Before getting food the winner would have to tell about their project. It had an estranging effect to talk about poverty in the environment of abundance of the artefacts donated by popstars such as beautiful guitars. After the meal, the group had to find its way back to the hotel in Long Island City.
BPN: 1431
Saturday, September 18, 2010
BPN 1430: New York: here is the WSYA (2)
This year the following projects were selected:
Category 1: Fight Poverty, Hunger & Disease!
Winner ANTI HIVIRUS
Leung Chun San (28), China
http://www.vir.us/
Winner The Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu (28), Nigeria
http://www.smallholdersfoundation.org/
Winner Nahrani.com - Improve your vocabulary and provide food
to people in need
Nikolay Staney (27), Bulgaria
http://www.nahrani.com/
Runners-Up:
Village Home Tourism, Ashis Himali (26), Nepal
Donativa, Ilyas Bakouch (22), Morocco
Category 2: Education for all!
Winner Youth Ki Awaaz: Mouthpiece for the Youth
Anshul Tewari (19), India
http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/
Winner Clo’s Ship (La nave di Clo)
Silvia Carbotti (30), Italy
http://www.navediclo.it/
Winner KSNA (Knowledge & Science News Agency) Scientific
magazine - Founder of OpenScience in IRAN & Middle East
Mohammad Rashidi-Kochi (22), Iran
http://www.ksna.ir/
Runners-Up
SME-Challenge, Santiago Peyré (27), Argentina
Sexual Maturation and menstrual hygiene management practices associated with school girls in Ghana,
Philip Kwesi Agyei (28), Ghana
Category 3: Power 2 Women!
Winner Women’s Forum
Corobco Natalia (26), Azerbaijan
http://www.women-forum.net/
Winner We are all Laila
Eman Abd El-Rahman (25), Egypt
www.kolenalaila.com/en
Winner We are not inferior to anybody
Samina Khushi (28), Pakistan
http://www.owopakistan.org/
Runners-Up
Effemine Blog - For Making Change, Petra Gönczi (19), Hungary
Mother Nature, Dotun Adewunmi (28), Nigeria
Category 4: Create Your Culture!
Winner artur.org.hu - online guide on contemporary architecture
Daniel Kovacs (27), Hungary
http://www.artur.org/.
Winner WupY “What’s up Youth”
Abdullah Mosaad (22), Egypt
http://www.wupy.org/
Winner Afrique in Visu
Jeanne Mercier (27), France
http://www.afriqueinvisu.org/
Runners-Up
Nuok, Alice Avallone (25), Italy
Lemon24.com, Suny Md. Ashraf Khan (27), Bangladesh
Category 5: Go Green!
Winner VERDEate.com, Challenge your Green Side!
Sebastián Bustamante (27), Spain
http://www.verdaete.com/
Winner Colour Me Green Campaign
Liew Yao Ren (18), Malaysia
http://www.colourmegreencampaign.com/
Winner Climate Change Virtual school for Youths
Verengai Mabika (30), Zimbabwe
http://www.driafrica.org/virtualschool.html
Runners-Up
Eco Options Egypt, Omnia Abbas (22), Egypt
Green Brigade, Tewari Chitranshu (18), India
Category 6: Pursue Truth!
Winner Social MDGs
Baxter Stapleton (19), USA
http://www.socialmdgs.com/
Winner Forgotten Diaries
Biffi Selene (27), Italy
http://www.forgottendiaries.org/
Winner JOIN Informed Youngsters.
Juan Rafael Rivera-Sanchez (22), Mexico
http://join.org.mx/
Runners-Up
Urban Journeys, Salman Siddiqui (27), Pakistan
Pamir Times, Noor Muhammad (26), Pakistan
BPN: 1430
Category 1: Fight Poverty, Hunger & Disease!
Winner ANTI HIVIRUS
Leung Chun San (28), China
http://www.vir.us/
Winner The Smallholders Farmers Rural Radio
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu (28), Nigeria
http://www.smallholdersfoundation.org/
Winner Nahrani.com - Improve your vocabulary and provide food
to people in need
Nikolay Staney (27), Bulgaria
http://www.nahrani.com/
Runners-Up:
Village Home Tourism, Ashis Himali (26), Nepal
Donativa, Ilyas Bakouch (22), Morocco
Category 2: Education for all!
Winner Youth Ki Awaaz: Mouthpiece for the Youth
Anshul Tewari (19), India
http://www.youthkiawaaz.com/
Winner Clo’s Ship (La nave di Clo)
Silvia Carbotti (30), Italy
http://www.navediclo.it/
Winner KSNA (Knowledge & Science News Agency) Scientific
magazine - Founder of OpenScience in IRAN & Middle East
Mohammad Rashidi-Kochi (22), Iran
http://www.ksna.ir/
Runners-Up
SME-Challenge, Santiago Peyré (27), Argentina
Sexual Maturation and menstrual hygiene management practices associated with school girls in Ghana,
Philip Kwesi Agyei (28), Ghana
Category 3: Power 2 Women!
Winner Women’s Forum
Corobco Natalia (26), Azerbaijan
http://www.women-forum.net/
Winner We are all Laila
Eman Abd El-Rahman (25), Egypt
www.kolenalaila.com/en
Winner We are not inferior to anybody
Samina Khushi (28), Pakistan
http://www.owopakistan.org/
Runners-Up
Effemine Blog - For Making Change, Petra Gönczi (19), Hungary
Mother Nature, Dotun Adewunmi (28), Nigeria
Category 4: Create Your Culture!
Winner artur.org.hu - online guide on contemporary architecture
Daniel Kovacs (27), Hungary
http://www.artur.org/.
Winner WupY “What’s up Youth”
Abdullah Mosaad (22), Egypt
http://www.wupy.org/
Winner Afrique in Visu
Jeanne Mercier (27), France
http://www.afriqueinvisu.org/
Runners-Up
Nuok, Alice Avallone (25), Italy
Lemon24.com, Suny Md. Ashraf Khan (27), Bangladesh
Category 5: Go Green!
Winner VERDEate.com, Challenge your Green Side!
Sebastián Bustamante (27), Spain
http://www.verdaete.com/
Winner Colour Me Green Campaign
Liew Yao Ren (18), Malaysia
http://www.colourmegreencampaign.com/
Winner Climate Change Virtual school for Youths
Verengai Mabika (30), Zimbabwe
http://www.driafrica.org/virtualschool.html
Runners-Up
Eco Options Egypt, Omnia Abbas (22), Egypt
Green Brigade, Tewari Chitranshu (18), India
Category 6: Pursue Truth!
Winner Social MDGs
Baxter Stapleton (19), USA
http://www.socialmdgs.com/
Winner Forgotten Diaries
Biffi Selene (27), Italy
http://www.forgottendiaries.org/
Winner JOIN Informed Youngsters.
Juan Rafael Rivera-Sanchez (22), Mexico
http://join.org.mx/
Runners-Up
Urban Journeys, Salman Siddiqui (27), Pakistan
Pamir Times, Noor Muhammad (26), Pakistan
BPN: 1430
BPN 1429: New York: here is the WSYA (1)
New York was the destination on Saturday for the award ceremony of the World Summit Youth Awards 2010, it is the second sibling on the World Summit Award (WSA).
The World Summit Youth Awards concentrate on content with the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in mind. Young people are asked to use internet and mobile media to act themselves, but also get action on the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals:
- Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme hunger and poverty;
- Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education;
- Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
- Goal 4: Reduce child mortality;
- Goal 5: Improve maternal health;
- Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
- Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability;
- Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.
The year of review has been set on 2015, when the eladers of countries will gather again in order to discuss the progress.
These goals have been translated in six categories:
- Category 1: Fight poverty, hunger and disease;
- Category 2: Education for all;
- Category 3: Power 2 Women;
- Category 4: Create your own culture;
- Category 5: Go green;
- Category 6: Pursue truth!
The WSYA are not just the result of projects picked ad random, but they are the result of a global competition. National experts have put forward projects, produced by young people under thirty. The projects are considered as representative for the MDGs and of content and technology excellence. They should demonstrate the consequence of inter-action and counter-action. The projects are evaluated by a jury of 17 young experts in two rounds.
WSYA does two things;
- showcasing the contribution of the young designers, technologists and digital content creators;
- contributing to addressing poverty, protecting the environment, sharing knowledge and empowering young people.
The WSYA is promoted in the UN member states through the networks of the World Summit Award (WSA), the UN Global Alliance for ICT, the Internet Society and its local chapters, participating UN organisations and agencies, governments and NGOs as well as youth organisations.
The winning WSYA projects have been selected from 630 applicants coming from 102 UN member states. Of these 630 applicants 245 completed the online registration, of which 142 products were evaluated in the end. Many applicants make known that they will enter a project. But by the time of the official online registration, many are not ready or simply did not register. It is interesting to see where the evaluated projects come from:
- Africa: 27;
- Arab countries & Middle East: 30;
- Asia: 40;
- Europe: 29;
- Latin America and Caribbean: 8;
- North America and Oceania: 8;
Interesting is to see the variance between the number of entries from the various regions. North America and Oceania only sent in 8 projects. You almost would question whether the MDGs are there alive. No looks to be the answer. Asia is the top region with 40 projects entered. Africa, the Arab Countries and the Middle East as well as Europe are following.
What do the 40 winners and runners-up aged 18 to 30 years from 21 countries get out of being an award winner. They get offered, thanks to the sponsorship of the Knight Foundation, a long weekend with an interesting program in New York.
The World Summit Youth Award is part of the World Summit Award, a multimedia competition, started at the occassion of the UN World Summit on the Information Society in 2003. From 2008 the World Summit Youth Award was started. The latest member of the WSA family is the World Summit Award Mobile Media (WSA mm), which kicks off next month with an international jury in Abu DHabi and a gala also in Abu Dhabi in December 2010.
The World Summit Youth Awards concentrate on content with the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in mind. Young people are asked to use internet and mobile media to act themselves, but also get action on the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals:
- Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme hunger and poverty;
- Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education;
- Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
- Goal 4: Reduce child mortality;
- Goal 5: Improve maternal health;
- Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases;
- Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability;
- Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.
The year of review has been set on 2015, when the eladers of countries will gather again in order to discuss the progress.
These goals have been translated in six categories:
- Category 1: Fight poverty, hunger and disease;
- Category 2: Education for all;
- Category 3: Power 2 Women;
- Category 4: Create your own culture;
- Category 5: Go green;
- Category 6: Pursue truth!
The WSYA are not just the result of projects picked ad random, but they are the result of a global competition. National experts have put forward projects, produced by young people under thirty. The projects are considered as representative for the MDGs and of content and technology excellence. They should demonstrate the consequence of inter-action and counter-action. The projects are evaluated by a jury of 17 young experts in two rounds.
WSYA does two things;
- showcasing the contribution of the young designers, technologists and digital content creators;
- contributing to addressing poverty, protecting the environment, sharing knowledge and empowering young people.
The WSYA is promoted in the UN member states through the networks of the World Summit Award (WSA), the UN Global Alliance for ICT, the Internet Society and its local chapters, participating UN organisations and agencies, governments and NGOs as well as youth organisations.
The winning WSYA projects have been selected from 630 applicants coming from 102 UN member states. Of these 630 applicants 245 completed the online registration, of which 142 products were evaluated in the end. Many applicants make known that they will enter a project. But by the time of the official online registration, many are not ready or simply did not register. It is interesting to see where the evaluated projects come from:
- Africa: 27;
- Arab countries & Middle East: 30;
- Asia: 40;
- Europe: 29;
- Latin America and Caribbean: 8;
- North America and Oceania: 8;
Interesting is to see the variance between the number of entries from the various regions. North America and Oceania only sent in 8 projects. You almost would question whether the MDGs are there alive. No looks to be the answer. Asia is the top region with 40 projects entered. Africa, the Arab Countries and the Middle East as well as Europe are following.
What do the 40 winners and runners-up aged 18 to 30 years from 21 countries get out of being an award winner. They get offered, thanks to the sponsorship of the Knight Foundation, a long weekend with an interesting program in New York.
The World Summit Youth Award is part of the World Summit Award, a multimedia competition, started at the occassion of the UN World Summit on the Information Society in 2003. From 2008 the World Summit Youth Award was started. The latest member of the WSA family is the World Summit Award Mobile Media (WSA mm), which kicks off next month with an international jury in Abu DHabi and a gala also in Abu Dhabi in December 2010.
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
BPN 1391 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (16)
In the past weeks, I have presented my selection of the best WSA 09 entries. Every category has officially 5 entries; I have selected 2 entries per category.
The World Summit Award 09 (WSA 09) was the the fourth edition. Originally the World Summit Award is an Austrian initiative in the context of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It is an invitation project and puts the focus not on wires and computers, but on contents and applications. The best use of ICT is at the center of a unique, global contest activity in 8 categories and involving more than 160 countries.
Started in 2003 for the Geneva Summit conference, the WSA has been an unprecedented success due to the strong networking of professional associations, the national chapters of the Internet Society, multimedia education and research institutions, electronic chambers of commerce, non-governmental groups and foundations, government offices for IT and Information Society development and many others.
The WSA is the result of the active engagement of all these players in WSIS and of their shared conviction that quality contents are essential for a quality Information Society. Contents inspire, inform and allow the exchange of information and knowledge. Technology offers tools. It is a fundamental fact of the Information Society development that the performance of the tools increases faster than the human capacity to use them. This creates the Content Gap: ICT offers more capacity to produce, store and transmit than humans can use, fill, read or consume.
Participating in the WSA 09 were 157 countries. In total there were 560 entries. Divided over the categories, there were per category the following number of valid entries:
- e-Government & Institutions:79
- e-Health & Environment: 65
- e-Learning & Education: 85
- e-Entertainment & Games: 57
- e-Culture & Heritage: 72
- e-Science & Technology: 53
- e-Business & Commerce: 74
- e-Inclusion & Participation: 75
The entries were judged by an international panel of 35 experts from 33 countries during a week in New Dehli, where the jury was hosted by the government of India..
- CHRISTIAN RUPP, Austria, Federal Executive Secretary for e-Government, Austrian Federal Chancellery
- NARIMAN HAJIYEV, Azerbaijan, Project Director, National e-Governance
Network Initiative
- NAWAF MOHAMMED ABDULRAHMAN, Bahrain, Chief, Information Technology,
General Organisation for Youth & Sport
- ANANYA RAIHAN, Bangladesh, Executive Director, D.Net
- RUDI VANSNICK, Belgium, Chairman, Internet Society Belgium
- ANTHEA FOYER, Canada, Training Programmes Manager, Canadian Film Centre's Habitat New Media Lab
- DAVID BERMAN, Canada. Expert Speaker on Strategy, Ethics and Branding
- ALEX HUNG, China, Vice President, Internet Professional Association (iProA)
- BEATRIZ ELVIRA ALONSON BECERRA, Cuba, CEO, Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL)
- STANISLAV MILER, Czech Republic, Director, Studio Trimedia
- JUAN CARLOS SOLINES MORENO, Ecuador, Partner, Solines & Asociados/Gobierno Digital
- EFFAT EL-SHOOKY, Egypt, Advistor to the Minister for International Relations, Ministry of Communciations and Information Technology, MCIT-EGYPT
- DOROTHY K. GORDON, Ghana, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
- MARIA MERCEDES ZAGHI, Guatemala, Operations Director, Ergocom
- OSAMA MANZAR, India, Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
- EHSSAN RIAZI ESFEHANI, Iran, IT Consultant, Hamsafar.com
- ALFREDO RONCHI, Italy, General Secretary, MEDICI Framework
- ANDREW GAKIRIA, Kenya, Coordinator, Kenya eLearning Centre
- MANAR AL-HASHASH, Kuwait, General Manager, Dot Design
- LATIF LADID, Luxembourg, President, IPv6 Forum
- RODOLFO LADDAGA, Mexico, Co-founder, You Tours
- SUBHO RAY, India, President, Internet and Mobile Association of India
- JOSEPHINE CACDAC, Indonesia & Philippines, Programs Director, Multimatics Indonesia
- SHINTA DHANUWARDOYO, Indonesia, CEO, PT Bubu Kreasi Perdana (Bubu.com)
- JAN BIERINGA, New Zealand, Director, BWX Productions
- JAK BOUMANS, Netherlands, Principal counsellor Electronic Media Reporting
- GBENGA SESAN, Nigeria, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative, Nigeria
- ZAWAN AL-SABTI, Oman, Projects Specialist, Information Technology Authority (ITA)
- ANYA SVERDLOV, Russian Federation, Managing Director, Actis Wunderman
- LUMKO CAESARIO MTIMDE, South Africa, CEO, Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA)
- CHITRANGANIE MUBARAK, Sri Lanka, Programme Head, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
- FAOUZI ZAGHBIB, Tunisia, Chairman, Tunisian ICT Federation
- SHASHANK OJHA, World Bank, Senior eGovernment Specialist
- RAJEN VARADA, United Nations, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange
Blog Posting Number: 1391
Tags: e-content
The World Summit Award 09 (WSA 09) was the the fourth edition. Originally the World Summit Award is an Austrian initiative in the context of the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). It is an invitation project and puts the focus not on wires and computers, but on contents and applications. The best use of ICT is at the center of a unique, global contest activity in 8 categories and involving more than 160 countries.Started in 2003 for the Geneva Summit conference, the WSA has been an unprecedented success due to the strong networking of professional associations, the national chapters of the Internet Society, multimedia education and research institutions, electronic chambers of commerce, non-governmental groups and foundations, government offices for IT and Information Society development and many others.
The WSA is the result of the active engagement of all these players in WSIS and of their shared conviction that quality contents are essential for a quality Information Society. Contents inspire, inform and allow the exchange of information and knowledge. Technology offers tools. It is a fundamental fact of the Information Society development that the performance of the tools increases faster than the human capacity to use them. This creates the Content Gap: ICT offers more capacity to produce, store and transmit than humans can use, fill, read or consume.
Participating in the WSA 09 were 157 countries. In total there were 560 entries. Divided over the categories, there were per category the following number of valid entries:
- e-Government & Institutions:79
- e-Health & Environment: 65
- e-Learning & Education: 85
- e-Entertainment & Games: 57
- e-Culture & Heritage: 72
- e-Science & Technology: 53
- e-Business & Commerce: 74
- e-Inclusion & Participation: 75
The entries were judged by an international panel of 35 experts from 33 countries during a week in New Dehli, where the jury was hosted by the government of India..
- CHRISTIAN RUPP, Austria, Federal Executive Secretary for e-Government, Austrian Federal Chancellery
- NARIMAN HAJIYEV, Azerbaijan, Project Director, National e-Governance
Network Initiative
- NAWAF MOHAMMED ABDULRAHMAN, Bahrain, Chief, Information Technology,
General Organisation for Youth & Sport
- ANANYA RAIHAN, Bangladesh, Executive Director, D.Net
- RUDI VANSNICK, Belgium, Chairman, Internet Society Belgium
- ANTHEA FOYER, Canada, Training Programmes Manager, Canadian Film Centre's Habitat New Media Lab
- DAVID BERMAN, Canada. Expert Speaker on Strategy, Ethics and Branding
- ALEX HUNG, China, Vice President, Internet Professional Association (iProA)
- BEATRIZ ELVIRA ALONSON BECERRA, Cuba, CEO, Information Technologies and Advanced Telematic Services (CITMATEL)
- STANISLAV MILER, Czech Republic, Director, Studio Trimedia
- JUAN CARLOS SOLINES MORENO, Ecuador, Partner, Solines & Asociados/Gobierno Digital
- EFFAT EL-SHOOKY, Egypt, Advistor to the Minister for International Relations, Ministry of Communciations and Information Technology, MCIT-EGYPT
- DOROTHY K. GORDON, Ghana, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT
- MARIA MERCEDES ZAGHI, Guatemala, Operations Director, Ergocom
- OSAMA MANZAR, India, Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
- EHSSAN RIAZI ESFEHANI, Iran, IT Consultant, Hamsafar.com
- ALFREDO RONCHI, Italy, General Secretary, MEDICI Framework
- ANDREW GAKIRIA, Kenya, Coordinator, Kenya eLearning Centre
- MANAR AL-HASHASH, Kuwait, General Manager, Dot Design
- LATIF LADID, Luxembourg, President, IPv6 Forum
- RODOLFO LADDAGA, Mexico, Co-founder, You Tours
- SUBHO RAY, India, President, Internet and Mobile Association of India
- JOSEPHINE CACDAC, Indonesia & Philippines, Programs Director, Multimatics Indonesia
- SHINTA DHANUWARDOYO, Indonesia, CEO, PT Bubu Kreasi Perdana (Bubu.com)
- JAN BIERINGA, New Zealand, Director, BWX Productions
- JAK BOUMANS, Netherlands, Principal counsellor Electronic Media Reporting
- GBENGA SESAN, Nigeria, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative, Nigeria
- ZAWAN AL-SABTI, Oman, Projects Specialist, Information Technology Authority (ITA)
- ANYA SVERDLOV, Russian Federation, Managing Director, Actis Wunderman
- LUMKO CAESARIO MTIMDE, South Africa, CEO, Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA)
- CHITRANGANIE MUBARAK, Sri Lanka, Programme Head, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
- FAOUZI ZAGHBIB, Tunisia, Chairman, Tunisian ICT Federation
- SHASHANK OJHA, World Bank, Senior eGovernment Specialist
- RAJEN VARADA, United Nations, Resource Person, UN Solution Exchange
Blog Posting Number: 1391
Tags: e-content
Monday, October 05, 2009
BPN 1390 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (15)
Category: e-Inclusion & Participation
Voices of Africa
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The Voices of Africa website hosts over 300 examples of mobile reports supported by a programme which gives young Africans with little or no journalistic experience the opportunity to make a living by pursuing careers as mobile reporters. The foundation behind the site provides individuals with the basic technological equipment and financial means to be active in the media sector. Participants are given training and support with specific small scale assignments and are also encouraged to participate in specific media projects initiated by partners of the foundation. Their efforts are displayed on http://www.voicesofafrica.com/.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Both inclusive and participatory, the depth of content and the interactivity are particularly rich on the Voices of Africa. Emerging journalists, mentored by experts in their field, take matters into their own hands and get valuable on the job training that is second to none. This interactivity is incredibly rich as they learn from scratch how to produce their own stories. The program fits for the needs of the audience and enables a large number of people to engage journalistically in a meaningful way eliminating financial barriers that may prevent talented journalists to emerge and grow. Voices of Africa is an outstanding citizen journalism site and was recognized as such through its invitation to be one of a few hand selected bloggers at the G20 Summit in 2009. This project exemplifies both bridging the digital divide and narrowing the content gap.
Producer
Voices of Africa Media Foundation
Pim de Wit
Olivier Nyirabugara
Country
Netherlands
Contact
info@voamf.org
www.voicesofafrica.com
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
http://www.voicesofafrica.com/
Blog Posting Number: 1390
Tags: e-participation, e-inclusion
Voices of Africa
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The Voices of Africa website hosts over 300 examples of mobile reports supported by a programme which gives young Africans with little or no journalistic experience the opportunity to make a living by pursuing careers as mobile reporters. The foundation behind the site provides individuals with the basic technological equipment and financial means to be active in the media sector. Participants are given training and support with specific small scale assignments and are also encouraged to participate in specific media projects initiated by partners of the foundation. Their efforts are displayed on http://www.voicesofafrica.com/.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Both inclusive and participatory, the depth of content and the interactivity are particularly rich on the Voices of Africa. Emerging journalists, mentored by experts in their field, take matters into their own hands and get valuable on the job training that is second to none. This interactivity is incredibly rich as they learn from scratch how to produce their own stories. The program fits for the needs of the audience and enables a large number of people to engage journalistically in a meaningful way eliminating financial barriers that may prevent talented journalists to emerge and grow. Voices of Africa is an outstanding citizen journalism site and was recognized as such through its invitation to be one of a few hand selected bloggers at the G20 Summit in 2009. This project exemplifies both bridging the digital divide and narrowing the content gap.
Producer
Voices of Africa Media Foundation
Pim de Wit
Olivier Nyirabugara
Country
Netherlands
Contact
info@voamf.org
www.voicesofafrica.com
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
http://www.voicesofafrica.com/
Blog Posting Number: 1390
Tags: e-participation, e-inclusion
Sunday, October 04, 2009
BPN 1389 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (14)
Category: e-Inclusion & Participation
Tradenet (Esoko)
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
TradeNet is an innovative technology that links mobile phones to web-based management systems and enables agri-business, agri-associations and other agri-projects to systematically build polls, and automatically scouts participants for critical field information. The scout technology can be programmed to send or receive text messages from participants in the field in order to track activities and inventories or evaluate crop behaviour. The project incorporates an SMS-based and Java-based application that connects mobile handsets with a powerful online toolset, enabling large-scale tracking from the field, and significantly reducing the cost of real-time distribution and recovery of responses from thousands of participants. Today, almost
800,000 price records have been entered from 10 countries, making this the largest SMS-based MIS system on the African continent. Over 12,000 registered users are profiled in the system, and almost 500 markets are covered.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
TradeNet uses a combination of offline research, mobile content and communications with easily accessible online content to enable farmers and traders throughout Africa to access critical market information as means of improving market transparency and thereby household security and an opportunity to have returns on agricultural investments. Till today, small scale producers have been excluded from accurate daily price information in national markets. By training their
communities and making price alert deliveries to mobile phones automated, TradeNet provides access to more markets and negotiate better prices. It improves the transparency of agricultural markets in developing countries and includes communities in information services that previously they did not have access to.
Producer
BusyLab
Michael Ocansey
Puoza Gamaliel
Mark Davies
Xose Ahlijah
Andrea Biardi
Country
Ghana
Original Title
Esoko
Contact
anon@busylab.com
www.michaelocansey.com
Language
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.tradenet.biz
Blog Posting Number: 1389
Tags: e-inclusion, e-participation
Tradenet (Esoko)
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
TradeNet is an innovative technology that links mobile phones to web-based management systems and enables agri-business, agri-associations and other agri-projects to systematically build polls, and automatically scouts participants for critical field information. The scout technology can be programmed to send or receive text messages from participants in the field in order to track activities and inventories or evaluate crop behaviour. The project incorporates an SMS-based and Java-based application that connects mobile handsets with a powerful online toolset, enabling large-scale tracking from the field, and significantly reducing the cost of real-time distribution and recovery of responses from thousands of participants. Today, almost
800,000 price records have been entered from 10 countries, making this the largest SMS-based MIS system on the African continent. Over 12,000 registered users are profiled in the system, and almost 500 markets are covered.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
TradeNet uses a combination of offline research, mobile content and communications with easily accessible online content to enable farmers and traders throughout Africa to access critical market information as means of improving market transparency and thereby household security and an opportunity to have returns on agricultural investments. Till today, small scale producers have been excluded from accurate daily price information in national markets. By training their
communities and making price alert deliveries to mobile phones automated, TradeNet provides access to more markets and negotiate better prices. It improves the transparency of agricultural markets in developing countries and includes communities in information services that previously they did not have access to.
Producer
BusyLab
Michael Ocansey
Puoza Gamaliel
Mark Davies
Xose Ahlijah
Andrea Biardi
Country
Ghana
Original Title
Esoko
Contact
anon@busylab.com
www.michaelocansey.com
Language
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.tradenet.biz
Blog Posting Number: 1389
Tags: e-inclusion, e-participation
Saturday, October 03, 2009
BPN 1388 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (13)
Category: e-Business & Commerce
AvaGuide
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
AvaGuide combines interactive video and text-to-speech technology to enable virtual characters to hold customized conversations on company or product web sites. In less than 10 minutes of production time, AvaGuide can provide businesses with a virtual employee who will work 24/7, serving tens of customers at a time. One needs only to record a video or choose one of the pre-recorded characters and add a background and a dialogue. The code is to be simply copied and pasted into the website and AvaGuide is ready to attract more customer attention, convert visitors into paying customers, plus gain distinction from competitors. AvaGuide helps visitors to navigate though sites and find answers to questions instantly providing an intuitive online experience.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
“Making business life easier” - AvaGuide is a sophisticated combination of top quality interactive video and text-to-speech technology that enables businesses to create astoundingly life-like virtual characters on the web in the most simple way. Designed for small and medium-sized enterprises and using cutting-edge multimedia technology business websites gain immensely in attractiveness. Visitors can thus easily find information, fill out forms or get answers to their questions. Stylish backgrounds can be easily integrated and classical business dialogues are already prepared for customization. The simple copy and paste approach of the finished HTML Code make AvaGuide a breakthrough product that refreshes each business.
Producer
InteliWISE S.A.
Marcin Strzalkowski
Marek Borzestowski
Marek Trojanowicz
Country
Poland
Contact
przemek.lahuta@inteliwise.com
www.inteliwise.com
Language
English, Chinese
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
http://www.avaguide.net/
Blog Posting Number: 1388
Tags: e-business, e-commerce
AvaGuide
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
AvaGuide combines interactive video and text-to-speech technology to enable virtual characters to hold customized conversations on company or product web sites. In less than 10 minutes of production time, AvaGuide can provide businesses with a virtual employee who will work 24/7, serving tens of customers at a time. One needs only to record a video or choose one of the pre-recorded characters and add a background and a dialogue. The code is to be simply copied and pasted into the website and AvaGuide is ready to attract more customer attention, convert visitors into paying customers, plus gain distinction from competitors. AvaGuide helps visitors to navigate though sites and find answers to questions instantly providing an intuitive online experience.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
“Making business life easier” - AvaGuide is a sophisticated combination of top quality interactive video and text-to-speech technology that enables businesses to create astoundingly life-like virtual characters on the web in the most simple way. Designed for small and medium-sized enterprises and using cutting-edge multimedia technology business websites gain immensely in attractiveness. Visitors can thus easily find information, fill out forms or get answers to their questions. Stylish backgrounds can be easily integrated and classical business dialogues are already prepared for customization. The simple copy and paste approach of the finished HTML Code make AvaGuide a breakthrough product that refreshes each business.
Producer
InteliWISE S.A.
Marcin Strzalkowski
Marek Borzestowski
Marek Trojanowicz
Country
Poland
Contact
przemek.lahuta@inteliwise.com
www.inteliwise.com
Language
English, Chinese
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
http://www.avaguide.net/
Blog Posting Number: 1388
Tags: e-business, e-commerce
Friday, October 02, 2009
BPN 1387 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (12)
Category: e-Business & Commerce
ngpay
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
ngpay is India’s first mass market mobile commerce service. Functioning on every telecom network, consumers all over India are able to bank, pay bills, book tickets, make donations, shop, order food, and more - from a single place on their mobile handsets. At present, transactions with 80+ businesses across 10 sectors can be completed following a simple download of a free, 64kb application. Upon selection of a merchant, users are guided step-by-step through the m-commerce transaction via a menu-driven interface. At the payment stage, the conventional forms of electronic payment are offered. Data and over-the-air transactions are fully encrypted and require multi-level authorization to be accessed. Users receive SMS and, where applicable, email verifications of their transactions, and can view their transaction history on the ngpay main menu.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
The power of mobile connectivity to change the way people do business transaction is amply demonstrated by ngpay. It is easy, fast, and secure and has already a quite comprehensive list of services including entertainment, travel, shopping, banking, utility bill payments, and donations. The ngpay has an attractive menu, clear graphics and provides easy yet comprehensive mobile banking including 3rd party fund transfer and redeeming ngpay loyalty points. It delivers a true PC-based e-Commerce experience. The Ngpay user needs only a basic java handset and active GPRS connection. Ngpay brings low-cost electronic commerce and financial services to the rural and working class.
Producer“ngpay”
(JiGrahak Mobility
Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)
Sourabh Jain
Country
India
Contact
media@ngpay.com
www.ngpay.com
Language
English
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.ngpay.com
Blog Posting Number: 1383
Tags: m-commerce, e-business
ngpay
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
ngpay is India’s first mass market mobile commerce service. Functioning on every telecom network, consumers all over India are able to bank, pay bills, book tickets, make donations, shop, order food, and more - from a single place on their mobile handsets. At present, transactions with 80+ businesses across 10 sectors can be completed following a simple download of a free, 64kb application. Upon selection of a merchant, users are guided step-by-step through the m-commerce transaction via a menu-driven interface. At the payment stage, the conventional forms of electronic payment are offered. Data and over-the-air transactions are fully encrypted and require multi-level authorization to be accessed. Users receive SMS and, where applicable, email verifications of their transactions, and can view their transaction history on the ngpay main menu.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
The power of mobile connectivity to change the way people do business transaction is amply demonstrated by ngpay. It is easy, fast, and secure and has already a quite comprehensive list of services including entertainment, travel, shopping, banking, utility bill payments, and donations. The ngpay has an attractive menu, clear graphics and provides easy yet comprehensive mobile banking including 3rd party fund transfer and redeeming ngpay loyalty points. It delivers a true PC-based e-Commerce experience. The Ngpay user needs only a basic java handset and active GPRS connection. Ngpay brings low-cost electronic commerce and financial services to the rural and working class.
Producer“ngpay”
(JiGrahak Mobility
Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)
Sourabh Jain
Country
India
Contact
media@ngpay.com
www.ngpay.com
Language
English
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.ngpay.com
Blog Posting Number: 1383
Tags: m-commerce, e-business
Thursday, October 01, 2009
BPN 1386 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (11)
Category: eSCience & Technology
Videolectures.Net
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Videolectures.Net provides free and open internet access to high quality videos of lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at prominent academic
events. The portal aims to promote science, facilitate the exchange of ideas and
foster knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic content, not only for the
scientific community, but also for a more general public. All lectures, accompanying
documents, information and links are systematically selected and are classified
during the editorial process according to user comments. The materials come from
several EU funded research projects and organizations such as Xerox Parc, British
Telecom, Max Planck, Fraunhofer Institute, Australian National University and
Carnegie Mellon. The range of countries involved and languages used includes Europe,
USA, Taiwan, Australia, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Videolectures.Net's impressive content array on all scientific topics is truly impressive comprising materials suitable for both venerable scholars and the general public. It is an excellent "best practice" example for video content aggregators with its categorization and classification of content, ability to pinpoint very targeted pieces of knowledge within a large sea of information and true aggregation of various media according to topics. The high didactic quality gains significance as the site provides free and open access to science information from the world's leading experts in one internet space. The portal's navigation is easy and intuitive. This project plays an immensely important role in bridging the digital divide and narrowing the content gap. Geographical borders, financial considerations and access limitations disappear through provision of unlimited access to quality content for all.
Producer
Jozef Stefan Institute,
Center for Knowledge
Transfer
Mitja Jermo
Marko Grobelnikl
Peter Kese
Davor Orlic
Sebastjan Mislej
Darko Ignjatovic
Nina Rancic
Country
Slovenia
Contact
info@videolectures.net
ct3.ijs.si
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
videolectures.net
Blog Posting Number: 1386
Tags: e-science
Videolectures.Net
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Videolectures.Net provides free and open internet access to high quality videos of lectures presented by distinguished scholars and scientists at prominent academic
events. The portal aims to promote science, facilitate the exchange of ideas and
foster knowledge sharing by providing high quality didactic content, not only for the
scientific community, but also for a more general public. All lectures, accompanying
documents, information and links are systematically selected and are classified
during the editorial process according to user comments. The materials come from
several EU funded research projects and organizations such as Xerox Parc, British
Telecom, Max Planck, Fraunhofer Institute, Australian National University and
Carnegie Mellon. The range of countries involved and languages used includes Europe,
USA, Taiwan, Australia, Ukraine, Russia and Brazil.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Videolectures.Net's impressive content array on all scientific topics is truly impressive comprising materials suitable for both venerable scholars and the general public. It is an excellent "best practice" example for video content aggregators with its categorization and classification of content, ability to pinpoint very targeted pieces of knowledge within a large sea of information and true aggregation of various media according to topics. The high didactic quality gains significance as the site provides free and open access to science information from the world's leading experts in one internet space. The portal's navigation is easy and intuitive. This project plays an immensely important role in bridging the digital divide and narrowing the content gap. Geographical borders, financial considerations and access limitations disappear through provision of unlimited access to quality content for all.
Producer
Jozef Stefan Institute,
Center for Knowledge
Transfer
Mitja Jermo
Marko Grobelnikl
Peter Kese
Davor Orlic
Sebastjan Mislej
Darko Ignjatovic
Nina Rancic
Country
Slovenia
Contact
info@videolectures.net
ct3.ijs.si
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
videolectures.net
Blog Posting Number: 1386
Tags: e-science
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
BPN 1385 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (10)
Category: e-Science & Technology
Newstin
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Newstin is the largest news database in the world with up to 250,000 articles processed daily, comprising over 100 million and 5 billion metadata items. Newstin’s mission is to help corporate and government clients optimize intelligence and improve performance management by providing fully automated news and data categorization solutions in all the major world languages. Newstin technology is a unique system that features multi-language and cross-language document categorization. It is a powerful engine which harnesses a variety of cutting-edge technologies and implements linguistic processing with semantic analysis, multi-tier content categorization and cross-language taxonomy structures. With 2 million users globally, Newstin patented technology has the potential to become a core platform
for organizing any form of unstructured textual data.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Newstin’s innovative technology of real-time content organization allows for the creation of the world’s largest categorized news database, working in 11 world languages, and for other possible applications that require powerful searching and indexing tools and data mining capabilities. It is thus not just a news application, but an effective tool for business intelligence and enterprise performance management. Newstin is an ideal gateway into the world of news or other categorized data from all over the world — no longer is the user dependent on citation-based crawling tools and catalogues or forced to visit specialized resources to obtain the global view. Newstin helps users overcome language barriers and allows to receive an unbiased, but full world view, without the interference of “noise” and/or bias introduced by search optimizers.
Producer
Newstin a.s.
Frank Vrabel
Julius Rusnak
Peter Zajac
Vladimir Meier
Petra Novakova
Country
Czech Republic
Contact
products@newstin.com
http://corp.newstin.com
Language
Arabic, Chinese, Czech,
English, French, German,
Italian, Korean, Spanish,
Portuguese and Russian
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.newstin.com
Blog Posting Number: 1385
Tags: news, e-technology
Newstin
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Newstin is the largest news database in the world with up to 250,000 articles processed daily, comprising over 100 million and 5 billion metadata items. Newstin’s mission is to help corporate and government clients optimize intelligence and improve performance management by providing fully automated news and data categorization solutions in all the major world languages. Newstin technology is a unique system that features multi-language and cross-language document categorization. It is a powerful engine which harnesses a variety of cutting-edge technologies and implements linguistic processing with semantic analysis, multi-tier content categorization and cross-language taxonomy structures. With 2 million users globally, Newstin patented technology has the potential to become a core platform
for organizing any form of unstructured textual data.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Newstin’s innovative technology of real-time content organization allows for the creation of the world’s largest categorized news database, working in 11 world languages, and for other possible applications that require powerful searching and indexing tools and data mining capabilities. It is thus not just a news application, but an effective tool for business intelligence and enterprise performance management. Newstin is an ideal gateway into the world of news or other categorized data from all over the world — no longer is the user dependent on citation-based crawling tools and catalogues or forced to visit specialized resources to obtain the global view. Newstin helps users overcome language barriers and allows to receive an unbiased, but full world view, without the interference of “noise” and/or bias introduced by search optimizers.
Producer
Newstin a.s.
Frank Vrabel
Julius Rusnak
Peter Zajac
Vladimir Meier
Petra Novakova
Country
Czech Republic
Contact
products@newstin.com
http://corp.newstin.com
Language
Arabic, Chinese, Czech,
English, French, German,
Italian, Korean, Spanish,
Portuguese and Russian
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.newstin.com
Blog Posting Number: 1385
Tags: news, e-technology
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
BPN 1384 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (9)
Category: e-culture & Heritage
You Tour
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
You Tour uses the latest generation iPods to offer a multimedia tour guide which lets tourists conveniently do their sightseeing at holiday destinations. In an educational, entertaining and interactive way, the user is guided around their chosen destination, their route enriched by a wealth of content. Not only are the tours well documented with location maps, digital reconstructions, photographs, illustrations, animations, videos and instructions; a regularly updated directory of museums, restaurants, shops and services keeps tourists up-to-date. A ‘survival kit’ offers information on embassies, currency, and emergency phone numbers. Finally, You Tour offers an audio/photo dictionary which contains useful phrases in the local language. Available in multiple languages, this comprehensive package can be downloaded free of charge from the iTunes store.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
This ingenious application offers a rich mixture of intriguing and practical content, combining historical explanations with current logistical information of interest to visitors of the Chiapas region. The You Tour navigation is intuitive, both compliant and sympathetic to the Apple interface standards for iPods. The product interacts excellently in a variety of user languages, taking advantage of location-based information. You Tour provides reliable local e-Content, at a time and place where the visitor is most likely to be interested and make use of it. You Tour is distributed by institutions or museums loaning the branded iPods to visitors at no charge. If this business model proves successful in Chiapas it will globally substituting local e-content for tour guides. As GPS becomes more ubiquitous in devices, further features may be added.
Producer
You Tour
Alejandro Machorro
Fernández
Rodolfo Laddaga López
Country
Mexico
Contact
info@youtour.travel
www.youtour.travel
Language
Spanish, Italian, French and English
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.youtour.travel
Blog Posting Number: 1384
Tags: e-heritage
You Tour
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
You Tour uses the latest generation iPods to offer a multimedia tour guide which lets tourists conveniently do their sightseeing at holiday destinations. In an educational, entertaining and interactive way, the user is guided around their chosen destination, their route enriched by a wealth of content. Not only are the tours well documented with location maps, digital reconstructions, photographs, illustrations, animations, videos and instructions; a regularly updated directory of museums, restaurants, shops and services keeps tourists up-to-date. A ‘survival kit’ offers information on embassies, currency, and emergency phone numbers. Finally, You Tour offers an audio/photo dictionary which contains useful phrases in the local language. Available in multiple languages, this comprehensive package can be downloaded free of charge from the iTunes store.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
This ingenious application offers a rich mixture of intriguing and practical content, combining historical explanations with current logistical information of interest to visitors of the Chiapas region. The You Tour navigation is intuitive, both compliant and sympathetic to the Apple interface standards for iPods. The product interacts excellently in a variety of user languages, taking advantage of location-based information. You Tour provides reliable local e-Content, at a time and place where the visitor is most likely to be interested and make use of it. You Tour is distributed by institutions or museums loaning the branded iPods to visitors at no charge. If this business model proves successful in Chiapas it will globally substituting local e-content for tour guides. As GPS becomes more ubiquitous in devices, further features may be added.
Producer
You Tour
Alejandro Machorro
Fernández
Rodolfo Laddaga López
Country
Mexico
Contact
info@youtour.travel
www.youtour.travel
Language
Spanish, Italian, French and English
Media Format
mobile content
Product URL
www.youtour.travel
Blog Posting Number: 1384
Tags: e-heritage
Monday, September 28, 2009
BPN 1383 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (8)
Category: e-Culture & Heritage
A Journey Into Time Immemorial
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
A Journey into Time Immemorial offers users the opportunity to see and learn about the ancient Stó:lo people of Canada. The virtual online museum environment offers visitors infinite ways to explore and enjoy animated scenes from the past. Text descriptions, visual renderings, and photos describe the Stó:lo daily life, and with innovative Flash video content, users are transported three thousand years back in time. The website dynamically loads sound, video characters, and educational content via a customised Flash panorama engine. The website navigation lets visitors choose their own path through the virtual Stó:lo village, thereby creating a different experience with each visit. In addition to the Flash website, a fully accessible HTML site is available, in accordance with the strict specifications of the Virtual Museum of Canada.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
“Immersivity” is the keyword identifying this online resource. It is based on the Canadian First Nations traditional knowledge and oral history and provides a picture of life in the Fraser Valley as it was three thousand years ago. A deep insight of the Stó:lo daily life including fishing, trapping, weaving, and canoe building through a very rich selection of visual renderings, videos, photos and textual descriptions. Once downloaded the splash page navigation appears natural, easy and highly immersive; “explorers” simply look around the everyday life in the Stó:lo’s village and “touch” the objects they are interested in. The application provides a rich set of structured information taking advantage of the most suitable and effective media. The historical quality of the content provided by the archives is excellent and the quality of graphic, photo and video is outstanding.
Producer
Simon Fraser University
Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology
Barbara Winter
Ivana Filipovic
Linnea Battel
Country
Canada
Contact
bwinter@sfu.ca
http://www.sfu.museum/
Language
English and French
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.sfu.museum/time/en/flash
Blog Posting Number: 1383
Tags: e-culture
A Journey Into Time Immemorial
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
A Journey into Time Immemorial offers users the opportunity to see and learn about the ancient Stó:lo people of Canada. The virtual online museum environment offers visitors infinite ways to explore and enjoy animated scenes from the past. Text descriptions, visual renderings, and photos describe the Stó:lo daily life, and with innovative Flash video content, users are transported three thousand years back in time. The website dynamically loads sound, video characters, and educational content via a customised Flash panorama engine. The website navigation lets visitors choose their own path through the virtual Stó:lo village, thereby creating a different experience with each visit. In addition to the Flash website, a fully accessible HTML site is available, in accordance with the strict specifications of the Virtual Museum of Canada.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
“Immersivity” is the keyword identifying this online resource. It is based on the Canadian First Nations traditional knowledge and oral history and provides a picture of life in the Fraser Valley as it was three thousand years ago. A deep insight of the Stó:lo daily life including fishing, trapping, weaving, and canoe building through a very rich selection of visual renderings, videos, photos and textual descriptions. Once downloaded the splash page navigation appears natural, easy and highly immersive; “explorers” simply look around the everyday life in the Stó:lo’s village and “touch” the objects they are interested in. The application provides a rich set of structured information taking advantage of the most suitable and effective media. The historical quality of the content provided by the archives is excellent and the quality of graphic, photo and video is outstanding.
Producer
Simon Fraser University
Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology
Barbara Winter
Ivana Filipovic
Linnea Battel
Country
Canada
Contact
bwinter@sfu.ca
http://www.sfu.museum/
Language
English and French
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.sfu.museum/time/en/flash
Blog Posting Number: 1383
Tags: e-culture
Sunday, September 27, 2009
BPN 1382 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (7)
Category: e-Learning & Education
Our Space
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Our Space aims to forge communities and explore identities through a user-generated, interactive digital media experience. It guides visitors to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa through virtual and physical exhibition spaces where they are also able to view images submitted by the public and to work them into individual representations of national identity. In order to become a part of the exhibition, users join a web community and upload images or videos into a database. The media objects are then tagged to allow them to be easily accessed. Based on well-established social media functions such as the Flickr model, Our Space connects the images to a physical on-site experience. Visitors to the museum are invited to manipulate the material, completing the experience through aural, tactile, and visual stimulation and interaction. By recognising and inviting media from the great plurality of perspectives on life in contemporary New Zealand society, Te Papa is creating a vital resource for exploration and learning.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
This customized state-of-the-art installation is a great example of a digital playground that invites users to explore digital content about their national identity in different dimensions. Highest quality multimedia technology has been integrated for multiple user interaction, content management, and content display in a seamless way creating a unique multisensory experience for the user in order to facilitate the access to a great library of digital content that has been exceptionally handcrafted and designed. Is a great example of how interaction and quality digital content can be transformed in to an immersive and interactive experience appealing for everybody with no computer skills required. An outstanding example of on-line, off-line experience for identity learning.
Producer
Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa
Adan Tijerina
Gibson International
Allan Smith
Country
New Zealand
Contact
ourspace@tepapa.govt.nz
ourspace.tepapa.com
Language
English with some Te Reo Maori
Media Format
cross media
Blog Posting Number: 1382
Tags: e-Learning
Our Space
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Our Space aims to forge communities and explore identities through a user-generated, interactive digital media experience. It guides visitors to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa through virtual and physical exhibition spaces where they are also able to view images submitted by the public and to work them into individual representations of national identity. In order to become a part of the exhibition, users join a web community and upload images or videos into a database. The media objects are then tagged to allow them to be easily accessed. Based on well-established social media functions such as the Flickr model, Our Space connects the images to a physical on-site experience. Visitors to the museum are invited to manipulate the material, completing the experience through aural, tactile, and visual stimulation and interaction. By recognising and inviting media from the great plurality of perspectives on life in contemporary New Zealand society, Te Papa is creating a vital resource for exploration and learning.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
This customized state-of-the-art installation is a great example of a digital playground that invites users to explore digital content about their national identity in different dimensions. Highest quality multimedia technology has been integrated for multiple user interaction, content management, and content display in a seamless way creating a unique multisensory experience for the user in order to facilitate the access to a great library of digital content that has been exceptionally handcrafted and designed. Is a great example of how interaction and quality digital content can be transformed in to an immersive and interactive experience appealing for everybody with no computer skills required. An outstanding example of on-line, off-line experience for identity learning.
Producer
Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa
Adan Tijerina
Gibson International
Allan Smith
Country
New Zealand
Contact
ourspace@tepapa.govt.nz
ourspace.tepapa.com
Language
English with some Te Reo Maori
Media Format
cross media
Blog Posting Number: 1382
Tags: e-Learning
Saturday, September 26, 2009
BPN 1381 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (6)
Category: e-Learning & Education
CELL-Centre for Experiential Learning
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
CELL-Centre for Experiential Learning is a multimedia and interactive learning
environment for medical practitioners, which delivers effective and engaging
learning projects in accordance with the latest andragogy principles. The training
centre exploits new technologies supporting natural interaction and new media
applications within the medical and scientific fields, offering physical settings for
clinical simulations and thereby promotes the active participation of physicians in
their vocational training. Interactive virtual reality theatres, virtual desks and
clinical simulations are part of the wide range of methods and tools available in
order to train and test medical and paramedical personnel. CELL creates a unique
learning environment where the excitement of being involved in a new and
meaningful experience favours learning and the intake of information.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
CELL represents excellence in the field of e-Learning for health and radically
transforms conventional continuing education and refresher courses for medical
practitioners. It introduces comprehensive cutting edge e-Learning facilities using
the added value of digital technologies for the needs of e-Health. Users are
"immersed" in highly realistic simulations enabling more powerful learning
mechanisms. To learn by doing or testing with the support of a qualified tutor is
for sure one of the most significant achievements of a creative use of ICT. Stateof-
the-art technologies, content and learning methods converge to make training
solutions effective. CELL represents an ice breaking solution in this sector, a
relevant case study and a significant advance in both in e-Health and e-Learning.
Producer
QBGROUP spa
Luca Quareni
Country
Italy
Contact
catedra@qbgroup.it
www.qbgroup.it
Language
Italian, English
Media Format
kiosk/multimedia
installations
Blog Posting Number: 1381
Tags: e-Learning
CELL-Centre for Experiential Learning
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
CELL-Centre for Experiential Learning is a multimedia and interactive learning
environment for medical practitioners, which delivers effective and engaging
learning projects in accordance with the latest andragogy principles. The training
centre exploits new technologies supporting natural interaction and new media
applications within the medical and scientific fields, offering physical settings for
clinical simulations and thereby promotes the active participation of physicians in
their vocational training. Interactive virtual reality theatres, virtual desks and
clinical simulations are part of the wide range of methods and tools available in
order to train and test medical and paramedical personnel. CELL creates a unique
learning environment where the excitement of being involved in a new and
meaningful experience favours learning and the intake of information.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
CELL represents excellence in the field of e-Learning for health and radically
transforms conventional continuing education and refresher courses for medical
practitioners. It introduces comprehensive cutting edge e-Learning facilities using
the added value of digital technologies for the needs of e-Health. Users are
"immersed" in highly realistic simulations enabling more powerful learning
mechanisms. To learn by doing or testing with the support of a qualified tutor is
for sure one of the most significant achievements of a creative use of ICT. Stateof-
the-art technologies, content and learning methods converge to make training
solutions effective. CELL represents an ice breaking solution in this sector, a
relevant case study and a significant advance in both in e-Health and e-Learning.
Producer
QBGROUP spa
Luca Quareni
Country
Italy
Contact
catedra@qbgroup.it
www.qbgroup.it
Language
Italian, English
Media Format
kiosk/multimedia
installations
Blog Posting Number: 1381
Tags: e-Learning
Friday, September 25, 2009
BPN 1380 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (5)
Category: e-Health & Environment
Mamaherb
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Mamaherb.com is an internet platform, enabling users from all over the world to access and evaluate information on alternative herbal remedies. Having become the world's largest free Natural Health resource, its goal is to function
as a paradigm-changing tool in the field of alternative - and perhaps all – health related knowledge. Users are able to research, rate, comment on, or discuss particular treatments and thus, with the help of other assessment tools, such as links to external references, be part of a huge project which aims to assess the effectiveness of natural and alternative treatments. Exploiting the universality of the internet, Mamaherb.com seeks to address two main issues: "What's out there?" and "What actually works?"
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Mamaherb is an excellent site with a fresh lay-out about natural health resources and alternative medicines. It offers information about natural herbs and remedies as well as establishing a community of users and practitioners to
exchange knowledge and experiences about these herbs and treatments. The knowledge and research of these alternative medicines is not as systematic as that of regular medicine, but in this site the present state of knowledge is brought together by a social network, the community of users and experts. The information offered is extensive and packaged attractively, giving product information and natural ingredients as well as information on treatment and remedies. It gives advice on remedies, accompanied by proper warnings.
Producer
Mamaherb.com
Elad Daniel
Country
Israel
Contact
thepeople@mamaherb.com
www.mamaherb.com
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.mamaherb.com
Blog Posting Number: 1380
Tags: e-health
Mamaherb
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
Mamaherb.com is an internet platform, enabling users from all over the world to access and evaluate information on alternative herbal remedies. Having become the world's largest free Natural Health resource, its goal is to function
as a paradigm-changing tool in the field of alternative - and perhaps all – health related knowledge. Users are able to research, rate, comment on, or discuss particular treatments and thus, with the help of other assessment tools, such as links to external references, be part of a huge project which aims to assess the effectiveness of natural and alternative treatments. Exploiting the universality of the internet, Mamaherb.com seeks to address two main issues: "What's out there?" and "What actually works?"
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Mamaherb is an excellent site with a fresh lay-out about natural health resources and alternative medicines. It offers information about natural herbs and remedies as well as establishing a community of users and practitioners to
exchange knowledge and experiences about these herbs and treatments. The knowledge and research of these alternative medicines is not as systematic as that of regular medicine, but in this site the present state of knowledge is brought together by a social network, the community of users and experts. The information offered is extensive and packaged attractively, giving product information and natural ingredients as well as information on treatment and remedies. It gives advice on remedies, accompanied by proper warnings.
Producer
Mamaherb.com
Elad Daniel
Country
Israel
Contact
thepeople@mamaherb.com
www.mamaherb.com
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.mamaherb.com
Blog Posting Number: 1380
Tags: e-health
Thursday, September 24, 2009
BPN 1378 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (4)
Category: e-Health & Environment
BioMAP
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The BioMAP project monitors and assesses the biodiversity of Egypt and aims to create a comprehensive IT-based database of existing Egyptian biodiversity records. Linked to up-to-date data bases through internal and external monitoring
of Egypt´s Protected Areas, the project enables an analysis to be made of changes in the status of the country´s biodiversity. The web-based information centre contains five operational sites. One of these is the Egypt’s biodiversity web site
which was authored by Image House and includes a large number of photographs and illustrations on all topics of relevance to biodiversity, enabling users of all types to access credible information, in order to inform decision-making at all levels.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Egypt has been endowed with a unique variety of ecosystems and a corresponding variety of wildlife that ranges from Eurasian species to purely sub-Saharan species. The attractively designed BioMAP shows that Egypt is not only
concerned with the preservation of its history, its pyramids and royal graves, but also with the preservation of its living biodiversity. Maps are produced to be used as a knowledge base for researchers, for conservationists, for planning projects
and for ecotourism. The BioMap encourages and enhances the capacity of park rangers to monitor and collect data, raises public awareness of the need to conserve biodiversity for future generations, and supports work in local communities that makes sustainable use of local resources, preserving and celebrating the traditions and heritage of people in the context of their environment
Producer
Nature Conservation Sector -
EEAA
Ahmed Said
Country
Egypt
Contact
info@smres.org
www.zone.biomapegypt.org/hiaa
Language
English, Arabic and Italian
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.biomapegypt.org
Blog Posting Number: 1378
Tags: e-environment
BioMAP
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The BioMAP project monitors and assesses the biodiversity of Egypt and aims to create a comprehensive IT-based database of existing Egyptian biodiversity records. Linked to up-to-date data bases through internal and external monitoring
of Egypt´s Protected Areas, the project enables an analysis to be made of changes in the status of the country´s biodiversity. The web-based information centre contains five operational sites. One of these is the Egypt’s biodiversity web site
which was authored by Image House and includes a large number of photographs and illustrations on all topics of relevance to biodiversity, enabling users of all types to access credible information, in order to inform decision-making at all levels.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Egypt has been endowed with a unique variety of ecosystems and a corresponding variety of wildlife that ranges from Eurasian species to purely sub-Saharan species. The attractively designed BioMAP shows that Egypt is not only
concerned with the preservation of its history, its pyramids and royal graves, but also with the preservation of its living biodiversity. Maps are produced to be used as a knowledge base for researchers, for conservationists, for planning projects
and for ecotourism. The BioMap encourages and enhances the capacity of park rangers to monitor and collect data, raises public awareness of the need to conserve biodiversity for future generations, and supports work in local communities that makes sustainable use of local resources, preserving and celebrating the traditions and heritage of people in the context of their environment
Producer
Nature Conservation Sector -
EEAA
Ahmed Said
Country
Egypt
Contact
info@smres.org
www.zone.biomapegypt.org/hiaa
Language
English, Arabic and Italian
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.biomapegypt.org
Blog Posting Number: 1378
Tags: e-environment
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
BPN 1377 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (3)
Category: e-Health
MPedigree
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
MPedigree enables anyone in a developing country with access to a cell phone to authenticate drugs before use. In order to fight the deadly consequences of the growing global counterfeit pharmaceutics market, it works via a simple SMS, accessible by default on all phones, and available on all cellular networks.
Akin to the very popular scratch card method for replenishing cellular talktime, users reveal a single-use code on drugs and SMS it to a provisioned mobile short code, which in turn generates an automated verification response. There is no cost to the drug patron — genuine drug manufacturers bear the cost due to the entrenched benefits they stand to reap when counterfeiters are driven out of the market.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Malaria kills over a million people a year: a simple SMS could prevent 20% of deaths. This health application brings together medicine manufacturers, government and consumers to solve one of the main problems in Ghana as in other African countries: that is medicine and drugs authenticity. Currently 80% of the medicines are counterfeited and result often in death. This project is the hope for every individual in this region suffering from counterfeited medicines and drugs. Armed with a simple cell phone, users can finally find out about the
quality of their medicine. This project bridges the gap between the mobile technology and medical related contents to solve a major problem in Africa and other developing regions.
Producer
MPedigree
Bright Simons
Ashifi Gogo
Country
Ghana
Original Title
MPedigree
Contact
agogo@mpedigree.org
bbsimons@mpedigree.net
Language
English and traditional
African languages
Media Format
broadband/online
mobile content
Product URL
http://www.mpedigree.net/
Blog Posting Number: 1376
Tags: e-health
MPedigree
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
MPedigree enables anyone in a developing country with access to a cell phone to authenticate drugs before use. In order to fight the deadly consequences of the growing global counterfeit pharmaceutics market, it works via a simple SMS, accessible by default on all phones, and available on all cellular networks.
Akin to the very popular scratch card method for replenishing cellular talktime, users reveal a single-use code on drugs and SMS it to a provisioned mobile short code, which in turn generates an automated verification response. There is no cost to the drug patron — genuine drug manufacturers bear the cost due to the entrenched benefits they stand to reap when counterfeiters are driven out of the market.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
Malaria kills over a million people a year: a simple SMS could prevent 20% of deaths. This health application brings together medicine manufacturers, government and consumers to solve one of the main problems in Ghana as in other African countries: that is medicine and drugs authenticity. Currently 80% of the medicines are counterfeited and result often in death. This project is the hope for every individual in this region suffering from counterfeited medicines and drugs. Armed with a simple cell phone, users can finally find out about the
quality of their medicine. This project bridges the gap between the mobile technology and medical related contents to solve a major problem in Africa and other developing regions.
Producer
MPedigree
Bright Simons
Ashifi Gogo
Country
Ghana
Original Title
MPedigree
Contact
agogo@mpedigree.org
bbsimons@mpedigree.net
Language
English and traditional
African languages
Media Format
broadband/online
mobile content
Product URL
http://www.mpedigree.net/
Blog Posting Number: 1376
Tags: e-health
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
BPN 1376 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (2)
Category: e-Government & Institutions
Government Information Center (GIC)
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The Government Information Center (GIC) is a single, electronic, trilingual (Sinhala, 77 key government organizations. Obtaining a particular government service used to involve navigating through a thicket of organizations and making multiple personal visits and repeated telephone calls. Language was a further barrier for the 25% of Sri Lankan citizens who speak Tamil. The GIC was established as a public/private partnership to provide a single point of access to government information and services in an effective and friendly manner. The knowledge base, stored in an SQL database, is available through multiple channels, including a Microsoft Visual Basic interface for call center staff, a web based interface for the IT-literate general public and, to accommodate future expansion, a web services API.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
The product perfectly addressed challenges faced by the citizens of Sri Lanka in accessing government services. One single phone number 1919 for getting information about what, how, where, who and how much of government services provides great value to ordinary citizens, particularly who are living far way from where the government institutions are located. The product leverages the telephone as the still most used and affordable I&C technology for accessing government information and uses access through Internet as well. The GIC has a very strong inclusion dimension: it offers the services in all three languages people talk in Sri Lanka. Illiteracy is not a barrier as accessing a phone is not a problem at all in Sri Lanka. The GIC helps particularly poor people save effort and time. The public
private partnership ensures sustainability of the services.
Producer
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
(ICTA)
Country
Sri Lanka
Original Title
Rajya Thorathuru Kendraya
(1919)
Contact
info@icta.lk
www.icta.lk
Language
Sinhala, Tamil and English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.gic.gov.lk
Blog Posting Number: 1376
Tags: e-Government
Government Information Center (GIC)
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The Government Information Center (GIC) is a single, electronic, trilingual (Sinhala, 77 key government organizations. Obtaining a particular government service used to involve navigating through a thicket of organizations and making multiple personal visits and repeated telephone calls. Language was a further barrier for the 25% of Sri Lankan citizens who speak Tamil. The GIC was established as a public/private partnership to provide a single point of access to government information and services in an effective and friendly manner. The knowledge base, stored in an SQL database, is available through multiple channels, including a Microsoft Visual Basic interface for call center staff, a web based interface for the IT-literate general public and, to accommodate future expansion, a web services API.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
The product perfectly addressed challenges faced by the citizens of Sri Lanka in accessing government services. One single phone number 1919 for getting information about what, how, where, who and how much of government services provides great value to ordinary citizens, particularly who are living far way from where the government institutions are located. The product leverages the telephone as the still most used and affordable I&C technology for accessing government information and uses access through Internet as well. The GIC has a very strong inclusion dimension: it offers the services in all three languages people talk in Sri Lanka. Illiteracy is not a barrier as accessing a phone is not a problem at all in Sri Lanka. The GIC helps particularly poor people save effort and time. The public
private partnership ensures sustainability of the services.
Producer
ICT Agency of Sri Lanka
(ICTA)
Country
Sri Lanka
Original Title
Rajya Thorathuru Kendraya
(1919)
Contact
info@icta.lk
www.icta.lk
Language
Sinhala, Tamil and English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.gic.gov.lk
Blog Posting Number: 1376
Tags: e-Government
Monday, September 21, 2009
BPN 1375 My selection of WSA Best e-Content 09 (1)
Category: e-Government
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The National Broadband Map is a visual representation of New Zealand's broadband landscape. It has been created to graphically represent broadband supplier network footprints alongside geocoded points, which indicate potential broadband demand locations. The Map takes publicly available government location data from various sources and combines it in such a way as to provide information and tools to aid in demand aggregation and infrastructure planning. The National Broadband Map also allows any citizen, business or government agency to reuse, reanalyse or visualise the demand point data in any manner, providing an environment in which extra value can be created from data which was once dispersed and inaccessible.
JUROR’S EVALUATION
The functionalities developed by the National Broadband Map unlock huge stores of information that otherwise would be locked up in proprietary or legacy systems. This content application makes the information accessible to a greater audience and thus creates transparency in an area hitherto closed off. By using open source software, standard API's and exposing the data in standard formats, the usage of the data is not restricted by technology or application, making it much easier for people to both consume and add to the data store. The mashup of public and private data is quite unique and both the public and private sectors in New Zealand are becoming aware of the value of having accurate, precise, data which are accessible to all. This intuitive, cross sector, public/private initiative is critical to the future of NZ.
Producer
State Services Commission
Country
New Zealand
Contact
info@broadbandmap.govt.nz
www.ssc.govt.nz
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.broadbandmap.govt.nz/map
Blog Posting Number: 1375
Tags: e-Government
PRODUCER’S DESCRIPTION
The National Broadband Map is a visual representation of New Zealand's broadband landscape. It has been created to graphically represent broadband supplier network footprints alongside geocoded points, which indicate potential broadband demand locations. The Map takes publicly available government location data from various sources and combines it in such a way as to provide information and tools to aid in demand aggregation and infrastructure planning. The National Broadband Map also allows any citizen, business or government agency to reuse, reanalyse or visualise the demand point data in any manner, providing an environment in which extra value can be created from data which was once dispersed and inaccessible.JUROR’S EVALUATION
The functionalities developed by the National Broadband Map unlock huge stores of information that otherwise would be locked up in proprietary or legacy systems. This content application makes the information accessible to a greater audience and thus creates transparency in an area hitherto closed off. By using open source software, standard API's and exposing the data in standard formats, the usage of the data is not restricted by technology or application, making it much easier for people to both consume and add to the data store. The mashup of public and private data is quite unique and both the public and private sectors in New Zealand are becoming aware of the value of having accurate, precise, data which are accessible to all. This intuitive, cross sector, public/private initiative is critical to the future of NZ.
Producer
State Services Commission
Country
New Zealand
Contact
info@broadbandmap.govt.nz
www.ssc.govt.nz
Language
English
Media Format
broadband/online
Product URL
www.broadbandmap.govt.nz/map
Blog Posting Number: 1375
Tags: e-Government
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