Bahrain eContent Award Activities Concluded
Manama – June 2007

The Bahrain eContent Award, in its second consecutive year, continued to encourage the innovation in the local eContent where it significantly succeeded compared to the previous year with twice as many participants. The winners were announced during the Award Ceremony, where their participation was evaluated based on the required standards with special consideration to the electronic content.
The winners of the eight categories were 30 in total, namely:

eGovernment
Ministry of Finance website
Ministry of Interior website
Ministry of Municpalities and Agricultural Affairs website
The Kingdom of Bahrain eGovernment website
Special Mention – Central Bank of Bahrain website

eHealth
Ministry of Health website
Bahrain Defense Force Royal Medial Services website

eBusiness
BATELCO – electronic version of the Batelco Annual Report 2006
Gulf Air website
Bahrain GP website
Customer Interaction Manager – Invita website
Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait website
Special mention – Bahrain Bay

eCulture
Jihat Al Shi’r – Qassim Haddad
Arab Culture Café – Jamal Ahmed AL Khayyat
Tahmazi Contemporary Art– Khalid Tahmazi
Tarbya Net – Nader Al Mallah
Special Mention – Al Waqt Newspaper

eLearning
Cyberia PC – Ali Al Musawi
Once upon a Time – Jihad Abbas
Physics – Ali Al Aswad
Special Mention – Learn French with Tidoo – Amani Shajrah

eInclusion
Al Ghad Youth Magazine
Be Free Center website
Special Mention – Women Gateway portal

eEntertainment
Bahrain Explorer website
Magic Island website
Mobile Portal – Aywah website
Click Bahrain website

eScience
Special Mention – Smart car robot – Mohammed Ahmed Abu Aesh

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Bahrain Internet Society would like to express its gratitude to the organizing committee, jury members from Kingdom of Bahrain and the visiting jury members and those who helped make the Bahrain eCopntent Award a success. We wish all participants all the best and encourage them to continue in the coming years to help improve and contribute to eContent in the Kingdom of Bahrain in the future.