PoliticsOnline and the 12th Worldwide Forum On Electronic Democracy seek nominations of the international award “Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics”. The nominations may include individuals, organisations, and companies that have left a great impact on changing the Internet and Politics. The winners of the award will be invited as honoured guests to annual Worldwide Forum on Electronic Democracy to be held on October 12, 2011, in Issy-les-Moulineaux, (Paris, France). The winners will participate in the awards ceremony and other special programs during the two day forum.
About PoliticsOnline
PoliticsOnline, Inc. (POL) is the premier global company providing news, tools and strategies for using the Internet and new technology in the civic sector – media, government, NGO’s, and politics. The company was founded in 1996 and is now the oldest political Internet company. POL began as a division of Phil Noble and Associates (http://www.pnoble.com/) a political and public affairs consulting firm with experience in over 350 campaigns and public affairs projects in 40 states and 33 countries. These included campaigns to elect the president or head of state in 17 countries.
Since 2000, POL has worked with the BBC to help guide and direct a wide variety of its interactive strategies and projects. As part of this work, POL has developed the NetPulse Interactive Network, providing an online interactive platform for numerous media companies to share interactive features across this global platform for online voting, registering opinion, message boards, quizzes, opinion research, blogs, video, ratings, etc. The technical performance has been virtually flawless in 30+ projects with users in 175 countries, in 32 languages (19 languages simultaneously), more than 75 media partners, hundreds of thousands of users and millions of online transactions.
The company’s work has been widely recognized and acclaimed in the US and international media and it has won numerous international awards for excellence and innovation. The New York Times called their work “revolutionary” and their projects have been praised by such leaders as Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Romano Prodi and other global leaders.
About the Award: The 10 Who Are Changing the Internet and Politics 2011
This prestigious award seeks to recognize the innovators and pioneers – those who blaze new e- political trails everyday, the dreamers and doers who bring democracy online. If you know of someone or something deserving recognition, send in your nomination by reply email today.
Past winners include argentinaelections.com, an online analysis of Argentine elections; avaaz.org, an international civic organization whose past campaigns include raising awareness of violence and poverty in Zimbabwe, and international climate change during the 2009 UN conference.
Criteria:
– Highly effective leaders who are making outstanding e-political and e-governmental achievements
– Forward thinking organizations that are leading the way in this revolution
– Innovative ideas or strategies that have forever changed the political process
You can submit a nomination by submitting a brief statement (200 words or less) describing the person and or institution, and why he/she/it/they deserve(s) recognition. Be sure to include all necessary URLs.
The deadline for nominations is Monday, August 8, 2011.
For more information and details, visit this link.
