| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.lilmdgs.org/ |
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Country - USA
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - FIGHT POVERTY, HUNGER AND DISEASE
 Lil' MDGs is the collaborative effort of three youths in different parts of the USA. Daylan, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lil'MDGs, is a young visionary with a passion for global issues. Since 2004, he has been directing his energy to alleviate the suffering of humanity in all parts of the world.
Accessible @ http://www.lilmdgs.org/ |
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| Sri Lankan Sign Language @ http://lankasign.lk/ |
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Country - Sri Lanka
Category - E-Inclusion
Sign language Software
A portal and CD based learning of Sri Lankan sign language for hearing impaired and their care givers. A video sign dictionary in which each sign is depicted by a video of the lip movement and sign; static images of the sign and the word in both text and image is also available.
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Phone # +94 11 2369099
Email # info@icta.lk
URL # http://www.lankasign.lk
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| Welcome to the official website of the Polizia di Stato or Italian National Police |
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Country - Italy
Category - E-Governance
A comprehensive access point to services and information provided by the National Police, where a number of thematic areas is deeply covered. There are a number of services available directly online including a virtual "police station", mobile content
and a thematic Web TV.
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URL # http://www.poliziadistato.it/ |
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| TOY - Thinking of You @ http://www.nederlandbreedbandland.nl/ |
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Country - Netherland
Category - E-Entertainment
An entertainment and game service for hospitalised children.
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Office/Secretariaat
Postbus 65857
2506 ED Den Haag
Bezoekadres: Bankaplein 2
2585 EV Den Haag
Telefoon: +31 6 10 888 902
Fax: +31 70 4490 539
E-mail: redactie@nederlandbreedbandland.nl
URL : http://www.nederlandbreedbandland.nl/ |
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| Face Control: Professionals' Ratings @ www.facecontrol.ru |
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Country - Russia
Category - E-Business
In countries where "official" ratings are often less than objective, it is often very difficult to determine true standings within various professions. Most people looking for a specialist usually rely on recommendations from friends or other professionals. This project tries to combat that trend by providing a very objective and independent rating of "professionals by professionals" within many professional occupations - from veterinarians to yoga instructors, from tennis pros to lawyers, from architects to doctors. It provides biographies and contact information for each of the professionals, has a multitude of video and audio interviews with top specialists in their fields, and provides information that may be of interest to those professionals themselves. The project's philosophy is that "people are more important than brands" - as such, it gives recognition to professionals, rather than institutions, finally giving credit where it may be long overdue. The project is exquisitely designed, displays wide use of multi-media content and provides a much needed service to anyone looking for a particular specialist. The unique business model behind the resource, combined with its wonderful "look and feel", can be easily replicated to other markets, thus making it a great best practice example in the eBusiness category.
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URL # http://facecontrol.ru/ |
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| Radio Channel devoted to Science @ http://www.ticonuno.it |
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Country - Italy
Category - E-Science
Moebius Online is a website linked with a thematic radio channel devoted to Science (Radio24) Moebius online goes beyond the online support to a radio station, it offers a wide range of content and services based on audio, video, images and podcasting.
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TiConUno s.r.l.
Via Massimiano 25
20134 Milano
Phone # +39 022046170 +39 022046602
Email # ticonuno@ticonuno.it
URL # http://www.ticonuno.it |
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| Producers of content & multimedia @ www.studioc-Online.com |
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Country - Guatemala
Category - E-Culture
Studio C is one of the major producers of content and multimedia projects and films in Central America. Through their own Foundation, the Central America Foundation is implementing several programs with young designers and programmers that have produced worldwide recognized products. The "Guatemala Interactiva" one of the five e-Culture 2007 winners is an example of cultural content using plasma displays that can be used as a moving road show of Guatemala's, past, present and future.
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URL # www.studioc-Online.com |
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| Popular local tourism website of Guatemala |
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Best Practices from the digital domain
Country - Guatemala
Category - E-Entertainment
Irtra is the Guatemalan government recreational parks site that includes information about services and projects. It is one of the countries most visited sites for local tourism. You can access it @ www.irtra.org.gt
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| Best practices from the digital domain - www.miportal.edu.sv |
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Best practices from the digital domain
Country - El Salvador
Category - E-Learning
 www.miportal.edu.sv is a very good educative portal, designed and prepared originally by the Ministry of Education, but currently acepted and adopted by many schools, students and teachers, as a means to communicate between coleagues, mates and beyond. Also, the schools set up their own websites in this portal and teachers are beginning to share materials as learning aids, developed by other teachers.
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| Tourism Portal for the Handicapped @ www.handyturismo.it |
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Best practices from the digital domain
Country - Italy
Category - E-Inclusion
 Handyturismo is a portal (www.handyturismo.it) totally devoted to the requirements and needs of handicapped people. It provides tourist information from the specific point of view of handicapped people, dealing with accessibility, availability of specific services, specific tours and opportunities.
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| Astro site of El Salvador @ www.astro.org.sv |
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Best practices from the digital domain
Country - El Salvador
Category - E-Science
 www.astro.org.sv This, sadly, is one of the fields least developed. A good initiative is presented by the local astronomy association.
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| Experience virtual catalogue of flora & fauna @ http://herbario.uvg.edu.gt/ |
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Country - Guatemala
Category - E-Science
 The University del Valle in Guatemala has one of the best known collections and classifications of plants and flowers in the country. Because of the diversity of flora in Guatemala, this virtual catalogue has been of great use for scientists and students locally and internationally. Accessible @ http://herbario.uvg.edu.gt/
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| Best practices from the digital domain - (WSYA 09 Winning Projects) |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - USA
Platform - Broadband/Online
Category - Fight Hunger, Poverty & Disease
 Based in New Hampshire, Lil' MDGs was founded in 2004, to leverage the power of the Internet to educate, engage, inspire, and empower youth in all corners of the world to work together to meet the Millenium Development Goals. Lil MDGs believes that inspiring young people to help achieve the eight MDGs is vital to meeting them...accessible @ http://www.lilmdgs.org/
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| Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development (VOA4SD) |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - KENYA
Platform - Mobile Application
Category - EDUCATION FOR ALL
Blog by Crystal Watley Kigoni
 ICT Update reported on the Voices of Africa project in rural Kenya as part of the web 2.0 issue in October 2007. Despite some difficult times, the project continues to help women farmers in the area. Read the latest one titled - ICT training for rural communities can be key to prosperity in Kenya Accessible @ http://voicesofafrica.info./ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://dokhtiran.com |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - IRAN
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - POWER 2 WOMEN
 Dokhtiran which literary means Iran's Daughter in Farsi is an electronic magazine published on a monthly basis targeting women's rights issues. The main philosophy and aim of the magazine is to increase knowledge of women, to inform female readers of their rights and to give them opportunities in society. Dokhtiran covers each month a special topic important to women that includes deeper, useful information as well as articles on current affairs and teaching information.
Accessible @ http://dokhtiran.com/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://GREENLIGHTED.COM/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - USA
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - GO GREEN
 Greenlighted is not your typical socially responsible shopping site. Greenlighted was not created to make you feel bad about your shopping habits nor was it created to force you to buy certain products from unknown brands. We created Greenlighted to fundamentally change the way business does business.We have compiled years of independent research from our partners and converted it into a universal symbol: the stoplight. We use the light as a tool to allow you to make instant socially and environmentally informed decisions about your purchases.
Accessible @ http://GREENLIGHTED.COM/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.alternatives.com.np/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - NEPAL
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - EDUCATION FOR ALL
 Alternatives is a pioneer Nepalese youth led social enterprise initiated during 2006. Since its inception, Alternative has encouraged Nepalese youth to become social entrepreneurs and has contributed to the society by creating a generation of youth endeavors who are self dependent, productive and skilled. It works to create new possibilities and practices so that they can utilize their enthusiastic and pragmatic visions in their society.
Accessible @ http://www.alternatives.com.np/
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.sisters4peace.net |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - USA
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - POWER 2 WOMEN
 Founded by a teen girl in 2007, Girls Helping Girls' Sisters 4 Peace Network is an innovative social-change movement dedicated to building a new generation of girl changemakers that will democratize the quest for peace worldwide by empowering themselves, their families, their communities, and this world. We not only implement our own global change projects, but more importantly empower girls to transform their vision into action by providing them with the personal mentorship, toolkits, and training they need to transform their world on multiple levels.Sisters 4 Peace is a global initiative of the international nonprofit organization Girls Helping Girls, which unites and mobilizes all girls to achieve their full potential.
Accessible @ http://www.sisters4peace.net/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://GUARDIANOFEDEN.NL/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - NETHERLANDS
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - GO GREEN
 Humanity has to change its behaviour in favour of nature. A rousing game is an ideal way to get a child's attention. Guardian of Eden is an online game where children learn how important the environment can be and how the world changes for the better if they take care of it. On the website visitors can build their own Garden of Eden and share it with friends.
Accessible @ http://GUARDIANOFEDEN.NL/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.nairobits.com/students/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - KENYA
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - GO GREEN
 This site is a medium of communication to the youth and public on the need to save and protect our environment, while the toilet project is a solution of the pollution of the river by direct human waste from informal settlements. The site has seven pages with different content about the river, the toilet project and me. I believe that the river would have been of great use to the Nairobi residents and a pride of Nairobi city.
Accessible @ http://www.NAIROBITS.COM/STUDENTS/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://BeExtra.org |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - USA
Platform - MOBILE APPLICATION
Category - CREATE YOUR CULTURE
 The Extraordinaries is a crowd sourcing smartphone software that allows volunteers to perform small tasks on their smartphones in just a few minutes. "Be Extra"enables everyone to do a social good from any place on earth within cell phone reception and makes it feel like a game.
Accessible @ http://www.BeExtra,org/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.rootsnroutes.tv/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - GERMANY
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - CREATE YOUR CULTURE
 "ROOTS&ROUTES TV" also calls itself "The Cultural Diversity Web TV" and provides space for youth from different cultural backgrounds (roots) to communicate their own issues and cultural practices (routes) by means of video and web-TV. ROOTS&ROUTES TV fosters language diversity as the platform is multilingual and shows today's European life.
Accessible @ http://www.rootsnroutes.tv/ |
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| Best practices from the digital domain - http://www.sidarec.org/ |
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Best practices from the digital domain -
(WSYA 09 Winning Projects)
Country - KENYA
Platform - BROADBAND/ONLINE
Category - MOBILE APPLICATION
 Working with the youth from the slums in Nairobi is a tricky affair. It calls for patience, tolerance and a high sense of knowledge about; their basic characteristics, unpredictable changes in what they like or dislike and the ability to cope with these changing trends in their overall behaviour. Working with youth in the slums enables one to understand that their indulgence in social vices is only a cry for attention. Young people love inclusion. They like being recognized appreciated in whatever they do and encouraged. It is evidently a fact that youth within the ages 15-35 years are a resourceful group in terms of their creativity, intelligence and vigor. In this regard therefore, the society is challenged to realize the potential of this energetic group so that they can also participate in the maintenance and sustainability of their respective communities. This is only way that they would feel they are part and parcel of their communities and hence get a sense of belonging.- LUCY MATHAI,
PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR SIDAREC.
Accessible @ http://www.sidarec.org/ |
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| Government Information Center (GIC - 1919) @ www.gic.gov.lk |
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Country - Sri Lanka
Category - E-Governance
The Government Information Center (GIC) is a single, electronic, trilingual (Sinhala, Tamil and English) knowledge base of 1,600 services available to citizens from 77 key government organizations. The related procedures that need to be followed to obtain each of these services are also stored in this knowledge base. Citizens can access all Government related information via this one location - either by calling a dedicated number (1919 from any phone in Sri Lanka) or by accessing the web portal.
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Accessible by dialling 1919 from anywhere in Sri Lanka
URL # http://www.gic.gov.lk/ |
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| Ghana Institute of Journalism @ www.gij.edu.gh |
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Country - Ghana
Category - E-Learning
The GIJ trains young women and men in the skills and techniques of journalism, mass communication, advertising and public relations.
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The Ag. Rector
Ghana Institute of Journalism
Gamel Abdul Nasser Road
P. O. Box 667, Accra
Ghana
Telephone:: 233(021) 228336
E-mail:: info@gij.edu.gh
Website:: www.gij.edu.gh |
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| Cuban Radio Portal @ http://www.radiocubana.icrt.cu/ |
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Country - Cuba
Category - E-Entertainment
The programs broadcasted by the radio stations of the Cuban Radio System are at the service of knowledge, culture, recreation and defense of the nation and all its citizens. Its main goal relates to the need to control the environment, seeking information on facts, events confirming its mission, with active involvement of its workers, among them are journalists, correspondents, technical, artistic and administrative staff, who are able to renew themselves in pursuit of development and creativeness of the Cuban radio system.
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Dirección Informativa de la Radio Cubana
Calle 23 # 258 entre L y M Piso 10,
Vedado. Municipio Plaza de la Revolución
Ciudad de la Habana, CP 10400.
Teléphone (053) 8324648 / 8322477
e-mail # portalenglish@radio.icrt.cu
website # http://www.radiocubana.icrt.cu/ |
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| China Mobile Information Networks for the Rural Areas @ 12582.com |
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Country - China
Category - E-Inclusion
“China Mobile information network for Chinese rural area” promotes the construction of new rural area which benefits 800,000,000 farmers nationwide. Farmer can get abundant information of agriculture by such various modes as sending messages to 12582, direct dialing 12582 and logging on www.12582.com.
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URL # http://www.12582.com |
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| The Yellow Umbrella Collection DVD from Cuba |
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The Yellow Umbrella Collection DVD - (nominated for WSA)
Country - Cuba
Category - E-Entertainment
CITMATEL
This collection is dedicated to and named after the popular children's program of the Cuban television. Marcolina, a lady who is a friend of children, instructs and entertains kids with the aid of the "Yellow Umbrella". This DVD includes four chapters of said program, in addition to an interactive game, a promotion, interviews made to the actors and opinions from the children. It is a DVD collection of children's stories that favours the formation of values, it is instructive and very pleasant. Through games, simple cook recipes, songs, the children play and learn. It has been a product of wide popular acceptance in Cuba and other Latin American countries.
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Email # webmaster@redciencia.cu
URL # http://www.redciencia.cu/cienciacu_en/
multimediasadmin/subcategoria_en.php?can=&ids=18
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| One Stop Digital Content Marketplace @ http://www.digitalcopyright.hk |
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Country - China
Category - E-Business
This project aims at preserving creativity and realizing the profitability of creativity in the digital economy. Digitalcopyright.hk is not only a one-stop trusted e-business marketplace, but also a centralized clearance solution to bridge both digital content owners and consumers who treasure creativity.
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Add: iResource Centre
Floor 3, Cyberport 3
100 Cyberport Road
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2989 6015
Fax: (852) 2989 6014
Email: iresource@cyberport.hk
URL # http://www.digitalcopyright.hk |
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| Trilingual Women Gateway of Bahrain @ www.womengateway.com |
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Country - Bahrain
Category - E-Inclusion
A trilingual website by Women Gateway which primarily serves women in Bahrain. The site offers news related to women living in Bahrain and also outside the country. There are various sections such as women portraits, where you are shown examples of successful women in the region and in the world, a Business Directory and an e-library that offers reviews for various books and links to the best online books websites. This site also contains various articles regarding topics that concern women in general such as politics, economy, education and health.
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Add: WomenGateway, P.O Box 3294,
Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
Tel: 00973 17877600
Fax: 00973 17877601
Email: info@womengateway.com
URL # www.womengateway.com |
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| HELP - Your aid for official channels in Austria @ www.help.gv.at |
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Country - Austria
Category - E-Culture
This Web portal is completely web barrier free (Rated by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the EU with triple AAA) and was the winning website 2006 "The Best e-Inclusion Website in a German Language ("Goldene Biene") and 2003 with the e-Europe Award of the European Commission for the best E-Government Website in Europe. Access to the HELP is also possible via multimedia telephone stations, mobile phones, digital TV or classic Internet.
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www.help.gv.at
WSA Nominee 2007 |
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| Travel in time 100+ years digitally |
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Acoustic Chronicle - www.akustischechronik.at
Country - Austria
Category - E-Culture
This is a virtual walk through the time and culture history of Austria from 1900 to 2000.
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Österreichische Mediathek
Webgasse 2a
1060 Wien
Tel.: +43-1/597 36 69 – 0
mediathek@mediathek.at
www.mediathek.at |
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| Snail & email merge here: The principle of dual delivery @ www.meinbrief.at |
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Country - Austria
Category - E-Governance
Dual Delivery
The principle of dual delivery (www.meinbrief.at) is founded on servicing both service paths - the electronic service via e-mail and physical service as a letter. Letters cannot always be electronically sent since even today some recipients still cannot be reached electronically. The Dual Delivery service automatically determines whether a letter can be sent fully electronically or as a regular mail letter when no electronic delivery is possible. All documents such as official papers, invoices, pay checks etc. can be dispatched in technically and legally secure form within just a few seconds whereby it is ensured that only the intended addressee receives the respective document. The collection time of the serviced document is additionally time-stamped. Electronic dispatching thus opens enormous saving potentials to senders, saving postage costs. When electronic transmission is not possible, the Raiffeisen Informatik Print Output Centre handles processing, printing, enveloping and sending of the letters. Raiffeisen Informatik as the very first European IT service provider received the decision of the Austrian Federal Chancellery to provide the capabilities for electronic delivery of official registered mail letters. With consent of the recipient, official letters can in future be received electronically and no longer need to be collected from the post office. The Raiffeisen Informatik Dual Delivery service allows for fully automatic dispatch and receipt of all documents, thus avoiding media breaches and offering a more comfortable, faster and price efficient solution when compared with conventional delivery by the post office.
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Phone # +43 0800 20 20 19
http://www.meinbrief.at/ |
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| 'Taare Zameen Par' of Austria - www.E-DysGate.org |
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Country – Austria
Category – E-Learning
Many people see dyslexia just as a reading and writing difficulty. But the problems that cause these difficulties also impact many other life skills. Internet-based exercises (www.edysgate.org) can help to train specific skills of dyslexic persons. Such exercises are available, but the majority of them are focussed on children and do not address the specific underlying problems of young adults. Young dyslexic adults do not like them due to their childish nature or because they seem irrelevant. This project looks to provide a highly motivating and stimulating learning environment (175 exercises in 5 languages) for a carefully selected range of skills known to be important for young dyslexic adults. It will address seven areas of particular importance for vocational skills development. The areas are targeted through direct and indirect stimulation. The principles behind the exercises are not specific for any given language - they will work for all individuals across Europe. The exercises will be developed in collaboration with the user groups as well as those who train them.
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E-Learning concepts Rietsch KEG (ELC)
Kumberger Weg 8A-2242 Prottes, Austria
T: + 43 2282 80150
F: + 43 2282 80160
E: rietsch@elearning-concepts.at
W: www.edysgate.org |
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