Winner of the 1st Annual ELECT LRC Best Global Website Award
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The ELECT LRC Best Global Website Award is a new award, which aims to find Europe's most innovative multilingual and multicultural website and to raise the awareness of these issues amongst web developers and policy makers.
The award attracted a large number of entries from many different types of organisations presenting relatively low-scale community sites to high-tech commercial sites.
The panel unanimously chose www.modersmal.net, developed by the Swedish National Agency for School Improvement, to receive the inaugural ELECT LRC Best Global Website award. In addition, the judging panel unanimously gave special mention to two sites for outstanding contributions to multilingual and multicultural web design:
 | www.2003specialolympics.com - the website for the 2003 Special Olympics held in Ireland. The site was especially commended for its outstanding content interface design and its underlying technology using XLIFF and web services. |
| www.panasonic-racing.com - the Formula One Racing site submitted by Panasonic Marketing Europe was especially commended for its outstanding design and visual impact demonstrating the possibilities of high-tech remote user intereaction. |
The
winning site, www.modersmal.net,
provides
a resource for those working in child care and school education. It concentrates
on “mother tongue” education, and contains a variety of different “mother
tongue rooms” with each room containing information and tools for
communicating in different languages.
The award was presented to Mats Wennerholm of the Swedish National Agency for School Improvement on Wednesday 19th of November during the third day of the annual LRC conference, “The Multilingual Digital World”. Mats then gave an in depth tour of their website and talked the conference attendees through the details and some of the interesting features of their site. “We are very happy to win this award, Mats said, “especially being a non profit organisation. We would like to accept the award on behalf of all the teachers who volunteer their time and expertise to provide material for the website”.
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The members of the judging panel were: Jesús Maroto, Euro RSCG, Alasdair Scott, TH3M, Marie-Therese Peltier and Thomas Louis, Bowne Global Solutions.