The World Summit Award is a three year global project, which will be held in the framework of and in cooperation with the World Summit on the Information Society 2003-2005. It involves representatives from numerous countries on each continent and sees the bridging of the digital divide and narrowing of the content gap as its overall goal.

Participation Eligibility

The World Summit Award contest will be launched in October 2004. It will be open to producers and companies from all over the world, without any discrimination in terms of language, technological platform or nationality. Participants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply. In order to ensure the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity the content of the entries can be designed in any language.

Selection

The products for the World Summit Award will be selected through a mechanism of outreach and open contest. The nominated products will be entered into the final selection processes and evaluated by the Award Grand Jury, built of the world's most renowned and accomplished multimedia creators and experts. The winners will be presented and celebrated at the Winners Gala, held in the framework of the WSIS Conference, November 2005 in Tunisia.

Categories

Sectors such as health, politics, science, education, business, as well as entertainment, are the main social aspects of daily human life in which people not only have the right and the opportunity to communicate but also shall have access to use the best applications to further increase knowledge and progress in their countries.

The categories of the contest are:

• e-Learning
• e-Culture
• e-Science
• e-Government
• e-Health
• e-Business
• e-Entertainment
• special category: e-Inclusion

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