October 2003 – Managing Director of Virtual IT is appointed as a member of the World Summit Award Grant Jury

 

The World Summit Award Jury (WSA) was formed by the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and was responsible for the selection of over 800 of the world’s best products in e-content and creativity from 136 participating countries. The WSA Grand Jury, consisting of 36 eminent experts in multimedia and ICT, selected outstanding projects to be celebrated in a spectacular showcase event in Geneva on December 10th in the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society 2003. The 36 members of the Grant Jury were selected after evaluating over 350 nominations from over 135 countries.  Amongst the Grant Jury eminent experts selected to become a member is Andreas Hadjioannou, Managing Director of Virtual IT.   Seen below in Dubai during the evaluation process.

 

 

 The World Summit Award for e-Content and Creativity (WSA) will add to the WSIS process and event a focus on e-content and creativity in the information Society.  In addition to the infrastructure issues, questions of access and the challenge to bridge the digital divide already before the WSIS, the WSA will put the focus on the concrete experience of people in terms of creative contents and their richness and diversity.  The World Summit Award (WSA) is a three-year global project strategically active in 191 United Nations’ member states.  The project evaluated consisted of 8 different categories.  The categories were e-Government, e-Business, e-Health, e-Entertainment, e-Inclusion, e-Culture, e-Learning and e-Science.

 

For more information please visit the site http://www.wsis-award.org/.