19.11.2007 // Press service of Rosenergoatom Concern

Virtual Atomic Energy Museum of Rosenergoatom Concern received award at WSA 2007 Gala in Venice on Nov 5 2007

The project (museum.rosenergoatom.ru) has been awarded in the “e-science” nomination.

The WSA 07 Gala took place 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 mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari welcomed the winners. He pointed out the importance of such competitions for the development of modern information society.

Members of governments, managers of world leading IT companies, well-known researchers attended the ceremony.

The Press Center of the Nuclear Power Industry of Russia received a certificate and statuette.

WSA Chairman Peter Bruck was impressed with the content, quality and excellent design of Virtual Atomic Energy Museum. He said that the project was a good combination of multimedia and well-structured content.

WSA Grand Jury member Paul Hoffert (Canada) said that the web-site presented a relatively a narrow subject in a very comprehensive, interesting and instructive manner showing, thereby, that best practice depends on approach to a resource rather than on the resource itself. The web-site is quite easy to use and access: it can even be used by people from areas with poorly developed technical infrastructure. The site is an excellent example of perfect web-design.

The director general of the Press Center of the Nuclear Power Industry Dina Kulikova said that the victory of Virtual Atomic Energy Museum has proved once again that the world community is interested in fostering the global nuclear renaissance and raising the public awareness of nuclear problems.

To remind, China, Italy, Mexico, and the Russian Federation were the clear winners in the 2007 World Summit Awards which show the global trends in e-Content within the United Nations Member States.

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 judgment 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.

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.

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 families. 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 plans 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.