The Kingdom of Bahrain proudly, through the eGovernment Authority sponsors the Arab eContent Award in association with the Bahrain Internet Society (BIS) and World Summit Award (WSA).
The Arab eContent Award’s main objective is to promote and encourage creativity in the Arab eContent domain and to outline the collaboration between the countries in the region regarding its field to reach an international level. Through this award, participants will be evaluated with the same published international standards set by WSA. The winners, who will be awarded during the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum & IT Expo 2011, will automatically be eligible to compete for the WSA 2011.
The Arab eContent Award is part of the World Summit Award (WSA), it implements the vision of the World Summit Award and shares the awareness for the need for local digital content. It is headed by Professor Peter A. Bruck , and all registration, evaluation, and jury proceeding are done according to international standards set by worldwide experts in the domain of eContent.
According to the rules and regulations set by the WSA Board of Directors, 150 United Nations member countries including 22 Arab countries were eligible to compete in the Arab eContent Award 2011 through their inventive eContent projects.
Delivering complete services in public administrations to individuals, businesses and organizations combined with organizational change in order to significantly improve services and democratic processes and strengthen support to public policies; fostering quality and efficiency of information exchange; empowering citizens and public services clients.
Developing the client-centred model of health care where stakeholders collaborate, utilizing ICT, including internet technologies to manage health issues as well as the health care system; meeting the needs of citizens, patients, healthcare professionals, healthcare providers, as well as policy makers.
Serving the needs of learners to acquire knowledge and skills for a complex and globalizing world; transforming schools, universities and other educational institutions through interactive, personalized and distributed learning resources; creating active e-learning communities and target models and solutions for corporate training as well as life-long learning.
Supplying digitized entertainment products and services; entertaining the user in this world’s variety of languages and its cultural diversity; supporting movement from one-way to two-way, from single to multiple players, interactive entertainment and the synergy between analogue and digital platforms.
Preserving and presenting cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future; demonstrating valuable cultural assets clearly and informatively using state-of-the-art technology; developing the diversity of cultures and sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies.
Fostering global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of applications and infrastructures that will enable it; providing measures to promote and demonstrate scientific processes and make them accessible to citizens; scientific projects articulated through new media.
Support and optimization of business processes; creation of new business models in e-commerce and m-commerce, business to business, business to consumers, internet security and other areas; supporting SMEs on the marketplace; using ICTs for buying and selling as well as servicing customers and collaborating with business partners.
Measures supporting integration of the global information society; bringing least developed countries into the knowledge society; reducing “digital divides” between technology-empowered and technology-excluded communities and groups such as rural areas and women; bridging society and strengthening social and political participation of individuals and groups through ICTs.
