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Kids portal comprises 2 main PILOT modules: - Children Module: A colorful interactive multimedia-driven section aiming to educate the child through an online Arabic encyclopedia. Three sample directories were implemented: Plants Directory, Animals Directory, and Transportation Means Directory. The module also publishes Arabic audio stories and children-level games to attract the children with a mixture of infotainment. - Parents Module: provides information to parents on: Child Mental Health and methods to remedy psychological disturbances, Infant Vaccination Schedule, Healthy Diet Recipes, and the Analysis Result of the sample Intelligent Online Mental Tracking tests. The website excels by providing information in Arabic (most such online information-provider services directed to Egyptian youngsters and parents of youngsters are in English thus limiting the usage to the a narrow segment - users who master a second language) and also excels by offering the information through articulate colorful multimedia interfaces.

HANA is a virtual newsroom and exists as the only news agnecy to have covered WSIS from start (Geneva 2003) to finish (Tunisia 2005). HANA stories, via a weekly digest (latest news from our stable of African based journalists) and coverage of conferences (production of publications) around the globe, are sent for distribution through regional newspapers (Mail and Guardian), networks (AllAfrica.com; Misanet) and civil society groupings (Pambazuka; Civicus; Femnet; SchoolNet; Association of Progressive Communications).

Global Voices provides a complement to existing media coverage of the developing world by aggregating, featuring and editing content from webloggers and citizen journalists around the world, with a special focus on developing nations. With a staff of 60 volunteer contributors and six part-time regional editors (located in Mexico, Bahrain, Spain, India, the UK and the US), we link to hundreds of global news accounts and opinions every week on a highly trafficked weblog. Our weblog is read by a quarter million readers per month and is ranked as the 150nd most popular weblog in the world by Technorati, the 100th in the world by Blogpulse. Our target audience for the blog includes internationally focused journalists, who often use Global Voices as a source for story ideas or local correspondents. The site won a Best of the Blogs award for "Best Journalistic Weblog in English" earlier this year. As the Global Voices site grows in prominence, our network of contributors is growing stronger. Our annual meeting - hosted by Reuters in London - brought together 70 bloggers from five continents. Participants at the meeting launched the next generation of Global Voices projects, which include efforts to increase translation of content from and to a variety of languages, outreach projects that bring new sets of bloggers and authors online, and efforts to increase production of multimedia content.

"Wishes, Lies and Dreams" was created to explore intimacy and emotional resonance with the viewer with combines artistic and fantasy to explore the experience of remembering ; questioning the fantastic adventure of nature, recognizing disquieting patterns, facing emerging memories, understanding the nature. Segments are combined with blurring images and vague to create and impression of subconscious memory and dreams.

STENCILBOARD is dedicated to Stencil-Graffities. Its purpose is to save the heritage of a very creative, dynamic and critical form of art. Its goal is to provide a database, to show different styles and activities from different parts of the world and make them comparable. The site is also intended to support the building of a community which discusses the works on display and features new examples of stencils by uploading photographs of them.

The project was initiated way back in 1979 and went online only in 1999 after much manual research and investigation was done of all the communities resident in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from many centuries back. It covers a complete historical, heritage and genealogical survey of the people of Sri Lanka and attempts to highlight significant people, places, events and issues related to the Indian Ocean island that was once ruled by the Portuguese, then the Dutch and finally the British until independece was granted in 1948.

The interactiv and multimedia website of African Cinema History, roots and origins Encyclopedia and Index News, Covers and Documents

The NPA's Virtual Cafe website uses techNology to forward the art of poetry in new, dynamic ways. Streaming video, animation and Cin(E)-Poetry.

The program has been produced in co-operation with The Finnish war Museum, which provided a lot of original material to use-photographs, newspaper articles, details about the guns, maps etc. Professor Ohto Manninen from The National Defence College´s department of war history served as an ezpert of the subject. The Finnish Film Archive, The Defence Forces´ Film Archive and The Finnish Broadcasting Company provided some rare film and audio material. The project started in April 1999. Graphic designers started their work in the end of May thought the script wasn´t ready until the mid August. Despite of the tight schedule and the summer holiday seasom the program was managed to finish by the deadline. The Winter war multimedia is also part of the Winter war exhibition at the War Museum in Helsinki. The exhibition was opened for public 30.11.1999.

Comprehensive documentation of the monuments in Egypt and specifically the Islamic monuments of Cairo, as preliminary phase in the major project so as to create the necessary groundwork for a Data Base system for Egyptian monuments which will serve the dual functions of assisting any foreseeable restoration efforts , and increasing general awareness of our Cultural Heritage and In doing so the project will purse a number of operational goals will combine to achieve the desired objective: 1- An Essential Dbase System: It covers all the monuments, which will be concerned with the initial documentation of monuments in terms of their necessary basic information, both textually and visually. 2- An Expert Dbase System : It designed to provide information on previous restoration and conservation efforts and the current status of monuments as will as the thorough documentation of the monument> 3- A complementary team of workers from both (IDSC) and The Supreme Council of Antiquities Cairo, Egypt .