Karin Gilberd's Page

My organization

World Summit Award

Website

http://www.wsis-award.org

Address

ICNM
Moosstr. 43a
A-5020 Salzburg
Austria

What we do as an organization (100-word description)

The World Summit Award (WSA) is the global initiative to select and promote the world's best e-Content and innovative ICT applications. WSA was started in 2003 in the framework of the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) as a contribution of the Austrian Government to the global effort to bridge the digital divide and close the content gap. WSA activities include national contests and selections of best practice, a global contest held every 2 years and content-focused national and international conferences with exhibitions — the WSA Road Show.
WSA works to strengthen entrepreneurship within content industries and to bring about economic and cultural development through the creative use of ICTs.

My function in the organization

Community & Event Manager

Other services and activities:

- global contest for the best e-Content products
-content-focused national and international conferences with exhibitions

Target groups

All websites, mobile applications, DVDs or any other products which use new media in a creative way and have been published since January 1, 2007 are welcome to participate.

Partners: (other NGOs)

Internet Society (www.isoc.org)

Partners: (private sector)

indigomedia (www.indigomedia.com)

Partners: (government)

Federal Chancellery of Austria (www.bka.gv.at)

Other partners:

UNESCO (www.unesco.org); UNIDO (www.unido.org), UN GAID (www.un-gaid.org)

How we contribute to the network

Best practices/Success stories, Evaluation tools/methodologies

How you got in touch with this social network site?

I got involved through a telecentre-europe event