World Summit Award 2005 - announcing and celebrating the world’s best e-Content - Report

Montassar Ouaili, Minister of Communications Technology of the Republic of Tunisia, delivered the opening speech of the World Summit Award Gala on the first day of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, 16-18 November 2005) in the name of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia.

At the World Summit Award Gala, multimedia producers received awards for their rich and innovative products, which had been selected before by an international jury. Submissions to win at the World Summit Award (WSA) were received from 168 countries. Part of the WSA Gala were the World Summit Youth Award, the Nokia 2 Billion Award, the Arab Mobile Development and e-Content Award.
 

Gala V.I.P include:

• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
President of the Republic of Tunisia

• Andranik Margaryan
Prime minister of the republic of Armenia

• Stjepan Mesic
President of the Republic of Croatia

• Vaira Vike-Freiberga
President of Latvia

• Dr. Kandeh Yumkella
Designated Director General, UNIDO

• Shaikh Ali Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa
Deputy Prime minister and minister of transportation of the kingdom of Bahrain

• Franz Morak
State Secretary for Arts & Media of the Republic of Austria

• Koichiro Matsuura
Director-General, UNESCO

• Abdoulaye Wade
President of the Republic of Senegal

• Gerard Latortue
Prime Minister of Haiti

• Bernard Meric
Senior Vice President, External Affairs, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Hewlett-Packard

• Montassar Ouaili
Minister of Communications Technology, Republic of Tunisia

• Viviane Reding
Member of the European Commission responsible for information & Media

• Lynn St. Amour
President, Internet Society, Switzerland/USA

• Thomas Ganswindt, Dr. hc.
Member of the Corporate Executive Committee responsible for information & Communication, Siemens AG, Federal Republic of Germany

• Simon Beresford-Wylie
EVP, Member of the Executive Board, Head off Networks, NOKIA Oyj, Finland

• Dr. Walid Moneimne
SVP, Head of Nokia Networks EMEA

• Wilhelm Stuckemann
CTO, Member of the Executive Board, PTC/era, Poland

• Dr. Saad Al-Barrak
MTC Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Mobile Telecommunications Company of Kuwait



Tunis 18 November 2005

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      WSIS 2005 plenary

      WSIS 2005 plenary

      ICT4all exhibition along WSIS 2005

      WSIS conference - one of the entrances

      Shirin ebadi - Iranian Peace Nobel winner is giving speech

      Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop

      WSA Gala - some of the guests

      WSA Gala - some of the guests

      Gala - Peter A. Bruck, WSA Chairman & Manar Al-Hashash

      Alexander Felsenberg and Sepehr Dehpour WSA Grand jury members

      Sepehr Dehpour, CGTAL director and IWSA chairman, giving a speech

      Hamamat Medina formal dinner - theater

      WSA @ Austrian e-Content village