Media Release
Guatemala announces 2011 winners of the UN based World Summit Award (WSA)
Guatemala, June 17th, 2011
As part of the UN activities following the World Summit on the Information society, the WSA recognizes the outstanding achievements of content designers and application producers in eight categories. It started in 2003 and will continue until the UN review in 2015.
In Guatemala, the contest takes place every two years and has had several several winners. This year. we are proud to annonce a winner in the e-entertainment category: MilknCookies with Mini-mundi (www.mini-mundi.com), a “tamagotchi” online game that is currently being used worldwide as part of the environmental education agendas in schools all over the world.
The announcement was made as a part of a worldwide FWAwebTV live broadcast at http://thefwa.com/fwawebtv where 24/7, back to back live shows from over 80 of the world’s leading agencies from over 28 countries are transmitting live video streams. As part of FWAwebTV, MILKnCOOKIES broadcasted live to the world on Friday june 17th June at 4pm Guatemala time (CST) – 10pm (GMT).
The event took place in Campus Tecnologico (Campus Tec), an international complex for innovation located in Guatemala, Central America where Milkncookies and the Guatemala WSA headquarters are located.
This is the first technology park in the region and it is considered to be the “Silicon Valley” of Guatemala in the center of the city in zone 4 in area known as “Cuatro Grados Norte”. It currently includes over 100 high-tech local companies that mostly have been doing business overseas mainly in the United States, Europe and other countries in Latin America.
Winners will present their outstanding products and projects, network with business partners and meet other experts in the field of ICT at the WSA 2011 Winners Events inEgypt, later this year.
For further information, go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/WSA-Guatemala/128504717178790 for the Guatemala WSA site.
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