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
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Look at the photos I took at the Event
Nice to "meet" you again
Alan Thomas
the person who you may want to talk to about Mexico is Mauricio Davila from CDI.
best wishes
Ian