World Summit on the Information Society,Geneva, December 9 - 13

The World Summit Award 2003

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Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal Ion Iliescu, President of Romania Robert Kocharian, President of theRepublic of Armenia

Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of thePeople’s Republic of Bangladesh

Franz Morak, Secretary of State for theArts and Media, Austria

Montassar Ouaili, Secretary of State tothe Minister of Communication Technologiesand Transport, Tunisia

Abdullah Al Karam, Director KnowledgeVillage, Dubai with Peter A. Bruck

Peter A. Bruck (Austria) and RomaKhanna (Canada), the ceremony hosts forthe evening

Dan Nica, Minister of Communications andInformation Technology, Romania

Paul Meyer, Ambassador, PermanentMission of Canada

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Begum Khaleda Zia and her entourageenjoy the showcase event

Abel Rwendeire, Managing Director,Programme Development and TechnicalCooperation Division, UNIDO

Abdoulaye Wade with the producers of"Time to Market" from Senegal

Franz Morak, Secretary of State for theArts and Media, Austria hands over the cer-tificates in the category e-culture

The stage of the World Summit AwardShowcase Event

Over 500 guests from all over the globeenjoy the showcase

The team of "Timehunt" was among 5selected in the category e-Entertainment

The team of "Art2Life" from Canada recei-ves a "WSA Best e-Content" certificate

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Mary Hanafin T.D, Minister for theInformation Society, Ireland and BertieAhern, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) ofIreland with the team of "school.ie"

Erkki Likanen, European Commissionerfor Enterprise and Information Society

Partners from Dubai: Huda Almutawa andOmar Saab

Waheed AlBalushi, Peter A. Bruck andrepresentatives of the Ministry ofCommerce, Bahrain

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Peter A. Bruck with Abdullah Al Karam,Director Knowledge Village, Dubai

Peter A. Bruck with WSA Jury membersWaheed AlBalushi, Bahrain and SheikaLubna Al Qasimi, Dubai

The Executive Secretary for e-GovernmentChristian Rupp (Austria) at the WSA stand

The WSA Exhibition Stand was one of themost visited stands due to the immensevariety of projects presented there

Franz Morak gets an introduction to theworld`s best in e-content

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WSA Jury members: Andy Carvin, SonaMakulová, Garegin Chugaszyan, Md.AKteruzzaman

WSA Jury Member Osama Manzar, Indiapresents his book "E-Content: Voicesfrom the Ground"

A glimpse of the WSA Exhibition Stand atthe ICT4D Platform

Daniel Annerose, CEO of Manobi,Producer of Time to Market, Senegal

Speakers at the Press Conference: DanielAnnerose, Suzanne Stein, Sheika Lubna AlQasimi, Osama Manzar, Elizabeth Quat,Waheed AlBalushi, Mingshu Li

Journalists at the World Summit AwardPress Conference

WSA Jury members: Osama Manzar, IndiaElizabeth Quat, China and WaheedAlBalushi, Bahrain

Effat El-Shooky, WSA Jury Member 2003and Vice President of RITSEC & Director ofthe Global Distance Learning Center Egypt

Peter A. Bruck, Elizabeth Quat, Chinaand the producers of "Agricultural ExpertSystem in China"

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