“MASHTOTS-1600” E-CONTENT ALL-ARMENIAN CONTEST RESULTS SUMMED UP
YEREVAN, June 13. /ARKA/. The results of “Mashtots-1600” e-content
All-Armenian Contest, held within the framework of World Summit
Award have been summarized. According to Armen Grigoryan, the
Executive Secretary of the Council for Assistance to IT adjunct to RA
Premier, the objective of the contest was to reduce the gap between
technological and e-content through encouragement of cultural variety,
creation of dissimilar resources of e-content and numeralization of
cultural and scientific heritage. The 8 winners will represent Armenia
at the IT international summit in Tunis, November 16-18, 2005. “The
perspectives for the development of Armenian-language resources
are rather broad, however everything depends on the demand in order
to create translation standards and programs that will facilitate
the use of resources in Armenian”, said Grigoryan. He said that 200
applications were submitted for the contest, 55 best were selected
in 8 nominations within the framework of the summit – e-education,
culture, science, management, healthcare, business and 3 of national
value – e- Armenian studies, e-native, Armenian e-fonts. Honorary
diploma and money prizes were given to 16 organizations, of which the
main prize at $1 thou was given to “Aram Khatchatryan: Life and Work”
CD, “Armenian Genocide”CD, “Paruyr Sevak” CD, as well as websites of
Electronic Payment System (), Armenian Tourism Development
Agency (), website on the life and work of the
renowned Armenian composer Komitas (), virtual storage
of Armenian manuscripts (), Electronic Armenian
Fund (). The first prize at $500 was given to Armenia
Public TV (), Internews (), RA Foreign
Ministry (), website on literature
() ,the Council of Europe (),
“Armenia 2020” project ( Internet-newspaper
“Hetq” (), Public Radio of Armenia (). 8
winners of the contest to leave for Tunis are the authors of “Aram
Khatchatryan: Life and Work” CD, “Armenian Genocide” CD, and the
winning websites are , Armenian Tourism Development Agency
(), Armenian Public TV (), Economic
Court of the RA (), medical website ,
Byurakan observatory Note, on the threshold of
the Geneva Summit held December 10-12, 2003, contest of web-sites was
held. The website of the Centre for Study of Cosmic Rays of the Yerevan
Physics Institute crdlx5.yerphi.am was among the 5 winners. L.V.-0–