Arab eContent Award

Winners

e-Culture & Heritage

e-Entertainment & Games
Supplying digitized entertainment products and services; entertaining the user in this world's variety of languages and its cultural diversity; supporting movement from one-way to two-way, from single to multiple players, interactive entertainment and the synergy between analog and digital platforms.

Yallakora

Media Format	broadband/online www.yallakora.com
Producer	linkdotnet
Contact	haitham.nabil@mail.link.net
Country	Egypt
Description of the product/ project	Yallakora.com: an Arabic football enthusiast's website housing the first fantasy football game as well as prediction games. Keen to keep its place as Egypt’s number one website and to maintain its high rank among the top portals in the Middle East by offering users new services and enhancing the current ones. It also provides a vast array of information about Egyptian and International football, news, minute by minute matches and international leagues as well as other sports.
Jury Evaluation	Yallakora.com presents the first comprehensive Arab region fantasy Football competition. It covers the most popular leagues in the Arab region, Europe and other regional tournaments in the world. "Yalla Kora” multimedia website provides fans with a library of videos for all the matches and goals in the recent played games.

Aljazeera net

Media Format	broadband/online www.aljazeera.net
Producer	Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology - ictQATAR
Contact	ralmansoori@ict.gov.qa
Country	Qatar
Description of the product/ project	Al Jazeera Net:www.aljazeera.net is a news site launched in January 2001 in update of the leading role of Al Jazeera Channel in developing the visual and written Arabic Media Message, and enabling the Arab Public of continuous watching and interacting with the news and program analyses on the Internet. Al Jazeera Net is considered the first Arab site, and it entered the competition of the top world famous sites. The site delivers its message to Arab public in the Arab regions and the world with their intellectual and cultural diversity, including decision-makers, diplomats, intellectuals, media professionals, and young students researchers. In terms of information, the site depends on the reports of its own correspondents and those of Al Jazeera Channel, World and Arab News agencies, and references, and general and specialized Encyclopaedias, writers and researchers.
Jury Evaluation	"Aljazeera.net" visitors can follow the programs of the Al Jazeera channel online; it gives minute-by-minute news updates and allows the interaction of the visitors by allowing them to post their opinions and comments about the news. "Aljazeera,net" contributes in the development of the e-content industry through its different interactive tools as the Mobile Service and help building a global information society through its research center and its huge library of news.

Kout bu setta

Media Format	broadband/online www.koutbo6.com
Producer	KB Center Programming and Analysis
Contact	ahmad@koutbo6.com mohammed@koutbo6.com hamad@koutbo6.com
Country	Kuwait
Description of the product/ project	Koutbo6.com is an online entertainment website, a mixture of multi-player games and social networking web applications that includes the most popular local games in the Middle East. Users can play their favorite games with their friends or with other individuals in various tournament modes and thus reflecting their ranking on the website. Users can also add friends, and chat with them publicly or privately using the instant messaging application in addition to updating their respective profiles. Koutbo6.com game client is a Java based software which makes it a cross-platform application, there are even mobile phone versions of the game clients which allow the users to stay connected and play with their friends using their J2ME enabled mobile phones. The website was established in September 2000 and the name refers to the first game developed and the most popular game in Kuwait, Kout bo sitta.
Jury Evaluation	If you want to have fun and entertainment, you must visit Koutbo6.com, an online interactive entertainment website developed by young people in Kuwait, it provides multi-player games. The users can register and play their favorite games with their friends or they may have new friends through chatting with them publicly or privately using the instant messaging application and they may create teams and play together. There is also competition between the players and a ranking for them. Koutbo6.com is using a Java software for their game clients, it also provide the Mobile Phones Service for the users to play and stay connected to their friends using their J2ME application The site is really a contribution in the development of the online entertainment as playing cards games is one of the most attractive games for the people of all ages and it enhance the skills of the players.