June 26, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Nonprofit organizations made a strong showing at the 2003 Webby Awards, taking top honors in several categories.
Given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, an association for online-communication professionals, the Webbys honor Internet sites in 31 categories, such as activism, education, finance, humor, and travel.
MoveOn.org (http://www.moveon.org), an online advocacy group that uses the Internet to encourage civic participation in public policy, won the award for best Web site in the politics category. Founded in 1998 by two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to express their frustration with the effort to impeach President Clinton, the organization now has a network of more than two million online activists and helped lead opposition to the war in Iraq (The Chronicle, April 17).
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation won top honors in the broadband category for CBC Radio 3 (http://www.cbcradio3.com), a Web site that combines audio, video, photography, text, and animation. The site also won People’s Voice Awards — which were given to the nominee in each category that received the most votes from people who went to the Webby Awards Web site — in both the broadcast and radio categories.
Other nonprofit winners included: Planned Parenthood Golden Gate (http://www.ppgg.org) in the health category; AlterNet.org (http://www.alternet.org), a Web site run by the Independent Media Institute, in the print and zines category; the Pluralism Project (http://www.pluralism.org) at Harvard University, in spirituality; and the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org), which supports open, collaborative software-development projects, in technical achievement.
For more information: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com.
