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 tenth annual Best of the Web (BOW) and Digital Government/Education Achievement Awards (DGAA/DEAA) competition.
2005 CONTEST OVERVIEW
BEST OF THE WEB: For 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.
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 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, 2005. You will be able to update your entry until the contest closes on June 1, 2005.
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 from a state or local government, or K-12 or higher education institution in the United States. Web sites must be actively functioning by June 1, 2005. First-place BOW portal and education winners from last year's contest are excluded from entering in 2005 to make room for a new round of winners.
For Digital Government Achievement Awards (DGAA) information click here.
For Digital Education Achievement Awards (DEAA) information click here.