The World Summit Awards

Before coming to Geneva, I served as US representative to the World Summit Awards, a competition for the most creative digital content from around the world. WSA hosted several events at the summit, including an awards gala featuring heads of state from Bangladesh, Armenia, Romania and Senegal.

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World Summit Awards press conference.
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Peter Bruck, director of the awards, welcoming the press.
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Osama Manzar of India talks about the release of the WSA book, E-Content: Voices from the Ground.
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Suzanne Stein, WSA judge from Canada, along with the creators of Time to Market (Senegal) and Tejari (UAE).
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Elizabeth Quat of Hong Kong's Internet Professionals Association leads a lunch meeting.
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Representatives from China, Indonesia, India, Slovenia and Slovakia take part in the meeting.
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The audience settles in for the World Summit Awards gala event.
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The Bangladeshi prime minister, second from the left, talks with her ICT minister, while the presidents of Romania and Armenia chat with each other.
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The leaders of Bangladesh, Romania and Armenia.
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Prime Minister Zia giving a speech during the ceremony.
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PM Zia talking with Peter Bruck, who emceed the awards.
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President Ion Iliescu getting ready to present awards to some of the winners.
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Romania received one of the awards for best e-government project.
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Some of the winners accepting their awards.
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The president Armenia before presenting the e-science awards.
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President Wade of Senegal presenting the e-inclusion awards.


ICT4D Platform | WSIS Opening Ceremony | WSIS Side Events | Khatami Press Conference
World Summit Awards | Geneva and L'Escalade | Lausanne
Andy's WSIS diary, December 2003
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