2007 Best of the Web and Digital Government/Education Achievement Awards
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2007 Best of the Web and Digital Government/Education Achievement Awards
A New Generation of Government and Education
Call for Entries
The Center for Digital Government, the Center for Digital Education, Government Technology magazine and Converge Online are pleased to announce the call for entries in our eleventh annual Best of the Web (BOW) and Digital Government/Education Achievement Awards (DGAA/DEAA) competition.
CONTEST OVERVIEW
Please read the following information, then proceed to Government or Education (at page bottom) BEFORE registering.
BEST OF THE WEB: For more than a decade, the leading edge of service delivery has been at the portal where governmental and educational entities have presented a single face to their respective publics. The Best of the Web (BOW) has been there to recognize and celebrate the innovations and resulting maturity in providing solutions and communicating well with citizens, businesses or educational communities.
DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: The BOW remains focused on the portal/Web site while the Digital Government Achievement and Digital Education Achievement Awards create a forum for recognizing outstanding contributions also at the application and infrastructure level. Due to the tremendous number of requests for inclusion ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, all levels and all countries, may enter their applications and projects.
Contest Deadline for entries is June 1, 2007. You will be able to update your entry until the contest closes on Friday, June 1, 2007.
Contest Categories and Entry Guidelines
Overview of the awards categories:
Best of the Web (BOW): The following categories are open to state and local government and education institutions in the United States.
General Government Portals (main Web site organized to conduct government services and transactions):
Education Portals/Web sites (main state education Web site organized to provide curriculum and learner services, maintain student portfolios, communicate with parents, and manage administrative data; school districts; universities, colleges, community and technical colleges):
Entries for BOW government and education portals/Web sites must be submitted by officials, executives or staff from state or local government, or K-12 or higher education institutions in the United States. There is no entry fee. Web sites must be actively functioning by June 1, 2007. First-place BOW government and education winners from last year's contest are excluded from entering in 2007 to make room for a new round of winners.
PROCEED TO BOW GOVERNMENT and DGAA INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM (through June 1): click here.
PROCEED TO BOW EDUCATION and DEAA INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM (through June 1): click here.
