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In collaboration with the Municipality of Eindhoven and Omroep Eindhoven, Noterik developed the Municipality Meeting Online application. Council meetings are transmitted live over the Internet, with unique rich media features, providing citizens and journalists with new ways to interact with local politicians. Additionally, webcasts are enriched with meta-data which enables the advanced retrieval of recorded council videos by using the system’s search engine. The project is presently the most advanced online video application for council meetings in the Netherlands. It demonstrates the potential of new technology to help to provide transparency of governance. For more information visit the website www.bestuuronline.nl.

Vancouver.ca is a comprehensive website produced by the City of Vancouver, which promotes content designed to inform, educate and engage its citizens in local issues. While the website does provide convenient online services, such as the ability to purchase business licences through the Internet, the City’s priority has been to develop a website that contains a wide range of detailed content. The purpose is to promote awareness for and access to civic programmes and services, and also keep to citizens informed and engaged in debates on issues that impact their day-to-day lives. For more information visit the website http://www.vancouver.ca.

The purpose of the Brisbane City Council Green Home project was to provide visitors to the Brisbane City Council’s corporate website with an online 3D interactive house which illustrates the council’s key messages about household sustainability. The product displays one of the first uses of Shockwave 3D technology on any local government website in the world. It is also the first Australian government-sponsored “Interactive Learning Object” to use 3D technology in order to convey environmental messages that are designed to cause behavioural change in the target audience. For more information visit the website http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/BCC:STANDARD:696295366:pc=PC_1265.

The primary function of Bahrain eVisas is to provide a service for online application for, payment for and processing of visas for travel to Bahrain. The application uses connectivity to the GDNPR systems and databases to automate the processes as much as possible within policy and security constraints. Many groups of people benefit from the service: individuals who intend to visit the country, residents of Bahrain who are looking for multiple re-entry visas, and companies in Bahrain who want to interview an applicant from abroad. The system can also save biodata electronically, thereby reducing the data capture process at check-in. For more information visit the website http://www.evisa.gov.bh.

Direct.gov.uk puts users straight through to public services without them having to understand government. People who prefer not to use the Internet can get to Directgov through Digital interactive Television (DiTV) or 6,000 public kiosks. The application uses freshly written content to form a complete, coherent picture of the central government services. It aims to make all service delivery easier, quicker and cheaper for users, to drive the take-up of the government’s online transactions, to proactively present users with other relevant services and to help de-duplicate and rationalise the government’s web provision. For more information visit the website http://www.direct.gov.uk.

The concept of the JST Virtual Science Center website is to bring ‘ordinary’ people closer to the world of science, following the motto “You and Science.” There are different topics available. “Being Alive” focuses on the mysteries of the body, “Find Out” deals – among other subtopics – with the chemistry of fireworks, with sports and mathematics, “Our Lives” explains how watches, clocks and other devices work, “The Earth” talks about dinosaurs and the history of our planet, and “The Universe” features satellites, far-away planets and subtopics on the Moon and the Apollo space missions. For more information visit the website http://jvsc.jst.go.jp.

Supported by 108 Chinese Academy of Sciences research institutes all over China, the Virtual Science Museums of China website ‘translates’ scientific information into content that can easily be shared and appreciated by people who are not professionals. VSMC also makes an effort to establish a virtual community space, where both scientists and the general public can meet in order to better understand each other, by means of open and unbiased communication. Also aimed at fostering better understanding between China and the world at large, VSMC actively develops international partnerships. For more information visit the website http://www.kepu.net.cn.

Cape Farewell has brought together on the web scientists, educators and artists to collectively address and raise awareness about global warming. Three trips to the High Arctic are the background of the project, taking there scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, secondary school teachers of Science and Geography and high-profile British artists. Together they have explored the Spitsbergen Archipelago, witnessing first-hand the effects of global warming and coming to terms with the threat climate change poses to our planet’s stability. Visitors to the Cape Farewell site, which is highly interactive, are invited to share in this exploration. For more information visit the website http://www.capefarewell.com.

Fauna.hr presents on the Web the amazing fauna of Croatia using the latest Internet technology, including live presentations, video documentaries as well as 2D and 3D animations and illustrations. Content for the project is created in collaboration with students of biology and young scientists who are interested in sharing their knowledge and research results with the general public. New content is published on a monthly basis in form of ‘monthly themes’ that present a certain animal species or a group of animals. Users of the site are provided with information on scientific research being carried out on the monthly theme, and they are also told how to get involved if they have questions. For more information visit the website http://www.fauna.hr.

EduMedia is an online learning community website, dedicated to help to teach and study science. It provides a rich scientific multimedia database with more than 350 multimedia resources, featuring material for all new teaching methods. The website gives teachers and students access to the information they need in a new way by taking advantage of multimedia and interactivity. Animations are modular, brief and interactive, and they allow visualising complex or abstract thoughts and theories, previously difficult to illustrate without interactivity and simulation. These animations have been adapted to teachers’ needs and can be used in classrooms. For more information visit the website http://www.edumedia.fr.

The Web Content Translation Engine (English to Arabic) is a Web-based translation service that translates, on-the-fly, any English Web page to Arabic and vice versa, while preserving the original Web page layout. The application also allows for the translation of texts that can be entered. It can easily be accessed from anywhere; the only thing needed is a connection to the Internet, a computer, a login name and a password. Additional features of the Translation Engine are glossaries and daily updates with the latest information and news. For more information visit the website http://translate.sakhr.com.

New opportunities are being created every day on the WomenGateway. The project is a milestone in the Kingdom of Bahrain to help women advance their career. It is the first website on the island to focus on gender equity. Objectives are to provide women with detailed and accurate information on how to expand their businesses and investments, to offer them a cost-effective, user-friendly e-Commerce platform and to create an environment that liberates them from the constraints of traditional society. WomenGateway is a ‘melting pot’ of all sorts of information and services for women in Bahrain. For more information visit the website http://www.womengateway.com.

Children@Hospital allows seriously ill children, who are forced to live excluded from the world they are used to, to get in touch with other groups of children and adults, who keep them connected to the world, to other cultures and to educational knowledge. The multimedia platform and content, which has been created for this project, is easy to use and based on technology usually accessible for everybody. Children@Hospital is a little university where linguists, musicians and scientists make use of their knowledge to do everything they can for the ill children at hospital. The project follows the motto “learning to help healing”. For more information visit the website http://www.enfant-hopital.org.

Ajb`atz` Enlace Quichepioneers innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies to empower indigenous communities in Guatemala. By using this company’s application, teachers can create their own teaching material, students can become more active learners and community members can thus reach their full potential. The producers believe that indigenous people can benefit from ICTs, improving their education and skills, if technology comes with content in their language and culture, thus strengthening their identity and self-esteem. Online courses for adults and interactive CD-ROMs for children are what Ajb`atz` Enlace Quiche focuses on. For more information visit the website http://www.enlacequiche.org.

DeafPlanet, accessible at www.deafplanet.com, is a web destination where deaf and hearing children alike can make an exciting and engaging cultural experience. Produced in partnership with the Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf, this website is a companion to the television show deafplanet.com, the first television series and website in American Sign Language. In addition to the regular deafplanet.com content related to the TV show, new content has been integrated into exciting animated environments which use the latest Flash web design technology to allow audiences to play trivia games and participate in educational activities. For more information visit the website http://www.deafplanet.com.

Visitors to the Paris, a Roman City website can see and explore the city's main monuments from the Early Roman Empire — today completely vanished — including the forum, the theatre, the amphitheatre ("Les Ar?nes de Lutece") and the baths ("Les Thermes de Cluny"). Interactive handling of objects discovered during archaeological excavations — such as a fibula, a statuette, a vase, a pocketknife, etc — help bring these ‘witnesses of the past’ back to life. Thanks to overlay maps, users can step back and forth in time, and for those who want to make a ‘real’ visit to Roman Paris, an information guide leads travellers along traces of the past through the streets of today. For more information visit the website http://www.paris.culture.fr/en.

The Victors: Soldiers of the Great War is a multimedia project dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the “Great Patriotic War” of 1941-1945. Although the Great Patriotic War was clearly a part of World War Two, Russian people perceive it as a separate war in which the very existence of their country and their national identity was at stake. The aim of the team of historians, writers, designers and programmers who created the project was not to correct this perception but to document it for future generations, as well as to share the memories and experiences of the veterans. For more information visit the website http://www.pobediteli.ru.

The Lakota Indians marked the passage of time by drawing pictures of memorable events on calendars known as “waniyetu wowapi” or “winter counts”. The Lakota Winter Counts website features 16 of these Native American Calendars from Smithsonian collections – plus a timeline of images showing events recorded by winter count keepers in various communities between 1701 and 1905, a searchable database of 19th Century commentaries, a documentary about Lakota history and culture as well as video interviews with Lakota people who relate these indigenous calendars to a wide range of historical and contemporary concerns, both local and global. For more information visit the website http://wintercounts.si.edu.

The CD Aram Khachaturian: Work and Life is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, who lived in the 20th Century and was the first composer to combine symphony music with the musical tradition of the East. The composer’s life and works are presented by means of his letters, photos, a biography, an archive, his contemporaries’ memories, video material and music. Born in Tiflis and spending his childhood in this city where the cultures of the West and the East were crossing, Aram Khachaturian managed to accumulate this heritage and later to create his unique blend of symphony music.

Eternal Egypt, accessible at www.eternalegypt.org, is a multi-lingual website (in English, French and Arabic) that uses the latest interactive technologies, high-resolution imagery, animations, virtual environments, remote web cameras and three-dimensional models in order to offer users from around the world the experience of learning about stories of Eternal Egypt. To explore this site, a guided tour and selected highlights of Egyptian civilization are available, in addition to a number of search possibilities. Plus an innovative, interactive map and timeline guides Eternal Egypt visitors through Egypt's cultural heritage. For more information visit the website http://www.eternalegypt.org.

Kids.net is the first and largest Internet portal for Spanish-speaking children created in Argentina. This portal, with content specially designed for kids and guaranteeing navigation to safe links, has become the portal par excellence for children to enter the world of Internet, with access from schools, homes, cyber shops and phone booths. Also, Kids.net shows a strong community-stimulating commitment to the world we live in and promotes respect for human rights and the environment. The product introduces new technological tools and new media to Spanish-speaking users, especially catering for the needs of children aged 6-14. For more information visit the website http://www.chicos.net.

BBC Radio 1's OneMusic is the default source of information and advice in the UK for anyone wanting to take their interests and talents further in the field of popular music. It nurtures new music in its earliest forms by showcasing artists’ demo recordings, encouraging peer-to-peer support, mentoring artists and giving artists access to the experience of others, including people at the top of their game. OneMusic empowers people by giving them the insight and skills they need to take control of the business side of their creativity. It is also an effective learning resource, which works with the music industry as well as with numerous educational bodies and music communities. For more information visit the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusic.

Mole’s Trip is a flash game for pre-school kids. The story is about five moles who want to construct an airship and go on a trip together. Each mole has to collect one part of the airship, which means that one player can play five games to get a whole airship completed. The project consists of three parts: the intro, five games and the outro. Most of the tasks in the game are a variation of classic games from the first half of the nineties - all tasks are simple and easy to understand for children.

Gulliver’s World implements a unique and innovative exhibition model for interactive digital environments. It features a total of seven ‘experience stations’ whose intuitive, user-friendly design makes it easy for visitors to get into the swing of hands-on experimentation. This makes learning the complex individual steps involved in creating an individualised mixed reality environment a quick and painless process. Users can give free reign to their imagination in designing and exploring virtual worlds and their inhabitants. Thus a journey through Gulliver’s World features a series of complicated, highly technical procedures that even kids can master easily. For more information visit the website http://futurelab.aec.at.

Dvd-kids is an easy-to-use DVD controller with a touch panel that allows children to play and interact once an activity card has been inserted. It is compatible with 95% of stand alone DVD players and can be used with special encoded DVD discs and cards. The games and consoles have been designed for young children (aged 3-7). With its unique interactive DVD concept, dvd-kids is an innovative product for the youngest generation, offering children the chance to interact with their favourite TV characters. The child is in the focus of the game action, and learning has never been such fun and as creative as now – with the child being led through stories, tasks, games and much more. For more information visit the website www.dvd-kids.com.

The Jotun Professionals Network takes an innovative approach to e-Business, as it aims to build long-lasting business relationships with customers using e-Content. It targets architects, professionals, interior designers and consultants across the Middle East, bringing them together as a community around the brand – its products, services and culture. The project is conceived to change Jotun’s position in the market from being a world class paints solutions provider to a world class paints solutions advisor, helping prospective customers to perceive Jotun Paints as an ally.

Like good old mail, the telegram is moving to the Internet thanks to a new product: The WebTelegram solution allows the printing, the nationwide delivery and online tracking with proof of delivery of telegrams. It is a B2B & B2C service, which can easily be deployed in any national postal network, in any post office. The delivery of telegrams is reliable and also very fast – thanks to the electronic processing of everything, from writing a telegram to online payment. Additional features include bulk sending and online tracking for both private and business customers. For more information visit the website http://www.webtelegram.poste.tn.

The Tianfu Agriculture Information Network (TAIN) was established in order to reduce the Digital Divide in poor areas of Western China, where more than ten minority groups live. In these areas, communication infrastructure is underdeveloped, and each minority group has their own dialect not easily understood by others. Education level is in general quite low. TAIN helps farmers to access all kinds of knowledge and information relevant to them, such as agricultural weather messages, farm produce supply information and demand status, treatment and sanitation recommendations and legal advice. All of this helps farmers to sell their products at a fair market price. For more information visit the website http://www.10109555.com.

Artisanal Shopping is an online shop, offering more than 1,000 products, handmade in different Moroccan cities and selected for the international market. Collaboration has been established with about 80 craftsmen, who work the way craftsmen used to work centuries ago, ensuring that products have the same incomparable quality as they had hundreds of years before. The online shop rewards partner craftsmen according to their delivery of incomparable quality. Artisanal Shopping has a specific agreement with partners, making clear that beginners cannot sell their products using this website.

Daft.ie is Ireland's biggest property website and one of Ireland's most established Internet brands. It serves over 15 million pages of properties every month to over 450,000 unique visitors. The website makes an effort to make finding property really easy, and it also cares about price, which is why Daft.ie claims to offer some of the most competitive advertising rates in the market – for first-time buyers looking for a first home, for business owners looking for new premises as well as for students looking to move into a house share. There are literally thousands of properties to choose from, with over 35,000 properties available on the website at any one time. For more information visit the website http://www.daft.ie.

Nature Park Kopacki Rit is a rich multimedia presentation of the Nature Park "Kopacki Rit" in the eastern part of Croatia (Osijek-Baranya county). After few years of running the old site, new multimedia material was made available and features for interaction between real and virtual visitors have been added. As a result of years of creating and editing new multimedia material, a new website was born, which focuses on a variety of animals and insects. For more information visit the website http://www.kopacki-rit.com.

Stagework is a website that allows users behind the scenes of the UK’s leading theatre productions, delivering an array of unique original content following the creative process from idea to performance. The project’s aim is to create an online experience from the ephemeral medium of theatre and to create productions that can be explored in the long term, extending the audience for productions beyond those able to get there in person. It sets a new benchmark for the delivery of rich online media to 3 audiences – existing theatre enthusiasts, teachers/learners of English and Drama and young people who want to pursue a career in the creative industries. For more information visit the website http://www.stagework.org.uk.

Advanced e-Learning Objects is a comprehensive collection of various lessons to be used at school (appropriate for ages 10-18, ISCED levels 2 and 3). The material consists of content for over 850 hours of learning in 8 subject categories. The majority of the content is universal (e.g. science lessons), while some content is specific to local issues in Romania. All lessons have been developed based on rigorous didactic, ergonomic and scientific standards by a team of teachers, psychologists and IT specialists. The collection of lessons consistently follows a didactic strategy, relying on interaction between the content and the user as the main vehicle for knowledge transfer. For more information visit the website http://www.advancedelearning.com/content.

The Digital Literacy Program (PAD) is part of the aim to increase the number of PCs in Argentina that are connected to the Internet to 10 million over the next five years. With a population of over 38 million people, Argentina has an IT penetration rate of approximately 5% only at the moment. The project does not only provide technological infrastructure and access to the Web, but also creates value and sustainability by using technologies to generate contents, services and other applications of interest for the community. PAD combines an innovative dual (on- and offline) e-Learning software, a peer-to-peer learning community and instructional design that stimulates network thinking. For more information visit the website http://www.competir.com.

E-Blocks is an innovative, research-based method for teaching English as a Second Language. The intuitive character of the E-Blocks panel makes it easy for students of all skill levels to interact. By connecting the panel to a computer, children identify letters and spell words by placing palm-sized blocks into the sensory pockets. Animated characters and full-colour graphics motivate students (ages 4-10). The product offers a variety of exercises and high-quality voice recordings that give students the opportunity to work on their pronunciation, based on authentic accents (US or UK). For more information visit the website http://www.eblocks.net.

Sisu Samarakshak aims at making use of Information and Communication Technology to improve women’s and children’s health through enhanced community monitoring mechanisms. ICT can be used to empower communities and promote inclusion of vulnerable groups, especially of women and the disabled. The project offers a comprehensive and an integrated solution for addressing the needs of the community. Sisu Samrakshak is part of the strategy of information dissemination centres to provide accurate, timely, contextual knowledge to mother and child. The knowledge is created for community-based learning and support. For more information visit the website http://unicef.org.

MedlinePlus is produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the world’s largest medical library. It provides consumers with comprehensive information on over 700 diseases and wellness issues. Health topic pages are supplemented with information on prescription and non-prescription drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, a medical dictionary, the latest medical news stories, directories of health professionals and facilities, and special features such as narrated interactive tutorials, broadcasts of surgeries, and easy-to-read materials. For more information visit the website http://medlineplus.gov.

Funny, frank and funky sex education for teenagers: Underworld is an animated, interactive, musical, detective investigation into the female reproductive system. Part narrative, part documentary and a valuable source of information, the project explores issues of sexuality with humour, characters, songs and video. The CD-ROM includes interview footage with teenagers and adults, covering a range of topics including sexual preference, body image, young mothers, safe sex, first times and language. The detectives at Sam Sperm's Detective Agency are on a mission to find out what’s going on during a menstrual cycle. And they also carry out other investigations. For more information visit the website http://www.underworld.net.au.

The Contraception Awareness Project, available at sexualityandu.ca, offers credible, comprehensive information on sexual health issues. The site makes use of unique characteristics of the Internet medium – anonymity, accessibility, expertise, interactivity and audio-visual richness – to enhance the user’s learning experience and accomplish its sexual health promotion objectives. The site is targeted to five distinct audiences, serving teens, parents, adults, teachers and health care professionals, and offers prepared and linked texts, interactive learning and referrals to preventive or treatment services. For more information visit the website http://www.sexualityandu.ca.

Files accessible through the Internet Access to Patient Healthcare Information project contain all necessary information about the state of a patient’s health and are accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. Information can be accessed by the patient or the doctors she/he gives permission to. Only healthcare workers registered in the IZIP system can update medical files. After registration, a patient receives an access code, only known to her/him. After initial registration (activation), she/he is able to access and read her/his medical file. Doctors and other healthcare workers can access these medical files, too, once they have been given permission. For more information visit the website http://www.izip.cz.