PRESS RELEASE
UN Department of Public Information, Yerevan Office
2 Petros Adamyan str., First Floor
Yerevan 375010, Armenia
Contact: Armine Halajyan, UN DPI Information Assistant
Tel.: (374 1) 560 212
Fax/Tel.: (374 1) 561 406
“ARAM KHACHATURIAN: THE LIFE AND WORKS” HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE WORLD’S
BEST E-CULTURE DVD/CD-ROM IN 2005
“THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: 1915-1923” DVD/CD-ROM – AMONG THE FIRST TEN
BEST PROJECTS IN E-EDUCATION
“Aram Khachaturian: The Life and Works” DVD/CD-ROM of the Armenian
company “ITE” (Information Technologies Education), has been selected
by the World Summit Award 2005 () Grand Jury as
the world’s best cultural CD/DVD multimedia product of 2005.
Another project of the same company, the interactive CD-ROM “Armenian
Genocide of 1915-1923” was recognized by the World Summit Award 2005
Grand Jury as one of top 10 products in e-learning category and was
specially mentioned.
Those products were selected in a five-stage process from over 20,000
candidates from 168 countries. The selection of the best products in
the world included national evaluations, a 35 member Grand Jury review
of over 750 nominations and a 6-day methodical judging process. The
overall process meets near-scientific requirements of independent,
inter-subjective judgment and of establishing the best available
expert views.
The success of ITE “Bazmaweb” studio proves its further significance
when we consider the fact that other major projects that were chosen
as the world’s best five e-culture products, were the websites
“Eternal Heritage of Egypt” created by IBM, “Virtual Roman Paris”
created by Ministry of Culture of France, “Lakota Winter Counts” of
USA Smithsonian Institution, and the Russian website about the history
of the Second World War (see ).
Shortly before, in June 2005, both Armenian products won All Armenian
2005 National e-content contest “Mashtots 1600″().
As projects with best content, both of them will be officially
announced and presented at the World Summit Award 2005 Exhibition
in the framework of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS)
2005 in Tunisia, from November 16 to 18.
Garegin Chugaszian, president of ITE company will accept the award
on November 16 at a special Gala ceremony to be attended by more
than 500 VIPs from all over the world, including heads of States,
leading representatives of international organizations, the private
sector and civil society.
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), initiated by
the United Nations and directly organized by the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) is a twofold process. The first phase
has been held in Geneva from 10-12 December 2003, while the second
will take place in Tunisia from 16-18 November this year.
The Armenian delegation to participate in WSIS this year will be
headed by the Prime Minister of Armenia Andranik Margaryan. Armenia
will also have the opportunity to present its best e-content products
to consumers in an individual pavilion.
The second Phase of WSIS together with the awards giving ceremony of
the e-contents world contest will take place in Tunisia from 16-18
November of this year. Heads of States (Presidents and Prime Ministers)
and other 500 high ranking guests will participate.
The World Summit Award is organized under the patronage of Austrian
chancellor Wolfgang Schussel, Argentine President Nestor Carlos
Kirchner and other presidents intending to observe existing worldwide
electronic contents be it Internet, DVDs, or CDs. The awards have 8
nominations: e-learning; e-culture; e-science; e-government; e-health;
e-business; e-environment; and e-inclusion.
It is worth mentioning that, amongst 168 countries only 14 had the
chance of gaining the World Summit Award twice and Armenia is one
of these few counties. At the first Phase of WSIS in Geneva (2003)
Armenia was awarded with the WSA 2003 in e-science for the website
“A Space Weather Aerie” created by Ashot Chilingarian’s Cosmic Ray
Division Center (CRD) from the Institute of Physics in Yerevan.
“ITE” (Information Technologies Education), and its “Bazmaweb” studio
are founded in 1998, and represent software company specializing in
the design and development of multimedia products (CD/DVD-ROMS),
as well as knowledge management applications based on portal
technologies(“Armino Web Solutions”).
For getting further information, both in Armenian and English, about
the WSIS Armenia’s participation you can visit the Summit’s website:
which has been prepared by the “Information
Technologies Foundation” (ITF) with the assistance of UN Resident
Coordinator and UN Department of Public Information in Yerevan.
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