17.10.2007 // Press service of Rosenergoatom

Virtual Atomic Energy Museum project of Rosenergoatom Concern has won World Summit Awards 2007

The Virtual Atomic Energy Museum project of Rosenergoatom Concern (museum.rosenergoatom.ru) has won the “e-science” nomination at World Summit Awards 2007.

“When designing the Virtual Museum, we sought to create a resource containing comprehensive and well-structured information about the history of the national nuclear power industry, the key stages of its development and its outstanding personalities. One of our key goals was to find a way to present large amount of documentary information and multimedia content in an easy and interesting form. The web-site contains materials we have never published before,” says the director general of the Press Center of Nuclear Power Industry Dina Kulikova.

China, Italy, Mexico, and the Russian Federation are the clear winners in the 2007 World Summit Awards which show the global trends in e-Content within the United Nations Member States, says WSA press release.

Producers from these countries won three of the much sought-after WSA 2007 Awards, including special awards for strategic value for the Information Society (“WSA Jury Distinctions”) and topped an approximately 24.000 others from 160 countries in the judgement of a 32 members Grand Jury from all continents which had met in Croatia.

China won in the categories of e-Entertainment («Xplus Personalized Digital Media Distribution Platform»), e-Business («DigitalCopyright.hk»), and e-Science («China Digital Science and Technology Museum”). Italy did its best in e-Science (“The Metopes of Selinunte”), e-Learning (“Musicbus”) and e-Health (“ULSS Asolo Medical Network“), Mexico  — in e-Government („ATM Express Government“), e-Entertainment („indigo — brain media“), and e-Business („National Financing — Development Bank”), and the Russian Federation succeeded in e-Science („Virtual Atomic Energy Museum“), e-Inclusion („Infoblago.ru“), and e-Entertainment («Dom-3“).

The World Summit Awards were started in the framework of the United Nations World Summit on Information Society as an initiative from Austria and are the world’s premier contest for excellence in e-content and creativity. They honour producers of interactive multimedia and innovative ICT applications and are the only awards supported by a Public Private Partnership between professional organisations, industry, governments and UN organisations.

WSA identifies high-quality e-Content products and promotes the most outstanding achievements worldwide in collaboration with the UN Secretary-General’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, UNESCO and UNIDO. It is a global not-for-profit activity governed by a Board of world-leading multimedia experts and supported by an office at the International Center for New Media in Salzburg, Austria.

“The contest increases the market awareness for excellence in e-Content, ingenious ideas and novel solutions, thus assisting in the market-making of high-quality multimedia products. And for some producers of excellence it is the breakthrough they needed to make it both locally and internationally” says Professor Peter A. Bruck, Chairman of the WSA Board of Directors.

“Success with a World Summit Award helps creative individuals and innovative companies no matter where they are from or how much cash they have. WSA addresses the global issues of Digital Divide and the Content Gap and thus contributes in an intelligent way to the achievements of the UN Millennium Development Goals” Bruck ads.

Key sponsors include the mobile telecom group ZAIN from Kuwait and the Internet Society. WSA sets standards in excellence for e-content globally and makes world leaders aware of the richness and diversity of e-content in order to narrow the Content Gap.

The WSA 07 Gala will celebrate the winners on November 5, 2007 at the annual conference on the Global Forum on Shaping the Future (November 5th-7th) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy.

The winners will be presenting their awards winning products at the two day WSA Winners Conference in Venice on November 3rd and 4^th also in Venice.

Virtual Atomic Energy Museum

The nuclear power industry of Russia is a huge system covering hundreds of companies and hundreds of thousands of people – employees and their facilities. The history of the national nuclear power industry is closely interwoven with the history of the Soviet Union and present-day Russia. Nevertheless, we have had no e-resource so far that would present this history in a comprehensive and well-structured form.

Now that the Russian and world nuclear power industries are experiencing renaissance, we could not but create such a resource. In order to carry out our present plants we should know and remember our history.

The site contains materials from the archives of the Ministry of Atomic Energy of Russia, Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR and other sources.