WEB FESTIVAL

The Web Festival is a special event dedicated to Web authors as well as Web users, offering the opportunity to Web authors to present their accomplishments and Web users to compare them, and to evaluate their impact. In line with this year's topic, Web Festival was a contest for the best unofficial Web site on an arbitrary but well-defined topic in three categories:

• Web site which presents the geographical entity
• Web site which presents a social group
• Web site which presents activities and phenomena

The contest was open to everybody (Rules of the contest). The deadline for the submission of Web sites was September 6th, 2002. From April 16 until September 6 we received over 150 applications for the Web Festival. Check out the list of 21 Web sites selected for final competition. The Jury officially awarded best Web sites.

Apart from the official contest, all visitors of the official conference Web site had the opportunity to vote for the best Web site entered in the contest (September 19 - 27, 2002) and a special award - "Users' Choice" was granted.