VivaCell-MTS announces all-Armenian competition for electronic contentNovember 25, 2010 - 14:11 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Association of Electronic Content and VivaCell-MTS announced that the 5th All-Armenian competition for electronic content will be held in Yerevan November 25 through December 25, the event being dated to the 500th aniversary of book-printing in Armenia. The purpose of the competition is to discover and highlight the achievements of Armenia in the sphere of electronic content in 2009-2010. The event is considered to be another effective tool to encourage the presentation of Armenia’s e-content products and achievements internationally. In total 800 multimedia works took part in the previous four competitions, and the winners participated at International Summits’ Prize-awarding events held in 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2005 in Tunisia, and in 2007 in Delhi (WSA-WORLD SUMMIT AWARD). Armenian participants returned home with three international awards. Like in previous years, this year’s competition also will be held in the following nominations: e-Learning & Education, e-Science & Technology, e-Culture & Heritage, e-Entertainment & Games, e-Business & Commerce, e-Government & Institutions, e-Health & Environment and e-Inclusion & Participation. The Top 16 winners will get monetary awards while the winners within each nomination will be granted an opportunity to participate in the most presitigeous multimedia world competition of World Summit Award The prize fund is equal to the AMD equivalent of USD 10 thousand. The Top 8 students will receive AMD 300 thousand each. The next 8 winners will receive AMD 150 thousand each. The organizers of the competition are the Armenian Fund for Information Technologies and the Armenian Association of Electronic Content. The Government of Armenia, All Armenia Fund and Icon Communications are the sponsors of the event. VivaCell-MTS is the General sponsor of the event. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Lithuania sending €100,000 to help Armenia fight floods consequences Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan took to social media to thank his Lithuanian counterpart for the contribution. Armenia: Rescue workers restore pedestrian bridge for flood-hit community Rescue workers on Wednesday, June 5 restored a pedestrian bridge in the town of Alaverdi in Armenia’s north. U.S. “deeply troubled” by Azerbaijan's arrest of civil society members The United States is deeply troubled by the continued arrest of members of Azerbaijani civil society, Matthew Miller has said. Turkey condemns Uruguay’s recognition of Armenian Genocide Turkey has condemned a newly passed law in Uruguay that recognizes the Armenian Genocide, TRT reports. |