[DDN] Announcing the winners of the World Summit Awards USA competition (fwd link)

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[DDN] Announcing the winners of the World Summit Awards USA competition

Andy Carvin
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:26:44 -0700
http://www.mail-archive.com/digitaldivide@mailman.edc.org/msg03104.html

Hi everyone,

It's my pleasure to announce the following sites as the winners of the 
USA
round of the World Summit Awards competition 
(http://www.wsis-award.org). These sites will now be up for 
consideration in the worldwide competition, which will be decided this 
autumn prior to the World Summit on the Information Society.

E-Culture: Lakota Winter Counts / Lakota Waniyetu Wowapi
(http://wintercounts.si.edu)

Lakota Winter Counts is an online exhibit created by the Smithsonian 
Museum's National Anthropological Archives. The exhibit effectively 
uses multimedia as a way to teach users about the history of the Lakota 
Indian tribe and their use of "Winter Counts," a picture-based language 
employed to record important events over the course of many years. 
Lakota Indians have a long tradition of oral history, which they 
supplemented successfully with the use of these Winter Counts. The 
online exhibit is a fascinating, moving tribute to Lakota culture. The 
site also balances robust multimedia content with an accessible version 
of the website for people with disabilities or limited Internet 
bandwidth.

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