Hi everyone,
As some of you may know, I'm the US representative for the World Summit Awards (www.wsis-award.org), an international competition to identify the world's best digital content in conjunction with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Nearly 170 countries will be submitting nominations for the contest; winners will be honored at the WSIS summit in Tunis this November.
Each country participating in the World Summit Awards will first host their own national competition to select the best digital content in a variety of categories, including e-education, e-culture, e-health and e-inclusion. As US representative to the international competition, it will be my job to select one winner in each category, then submit these winners to the international competition. US-based content producers will be able to submit their projects for consideration in the coming weeks; I'll have more information on the contest rules soon.
In the meantime, I would like to put together a small team of volunteers to assist me in selecting the winners for the US contest. The volunteers should be US-based experts in at least one of the contest categories (listed below), and be willing to assist in reviewing applications in early June. The review process will occur online, so no travel will be involved. Reviewers may not submit their own online content to the contest, though they may nominate content produced by others.
I'm seeking experts in these categories:
e-culture e-education e-health e-government e-science e-business e-entertainment e-inclusion (including digital divide-related websites)
I am also looking for at least one expert in Web accessibility for the disabled. While accessibility is not a content category in its own right, websites will be judged on their accessibility during the selection process.
If you are interested, please email me off-list (no attachments, please) at acarvin @ edc . org. In your email, please include a brief description of your areas of expertise and your professional background.
Thanks, ac
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