April 8, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
Nine Web sites run by non-profit organizations have been honored as the best in their fields.
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a professional association for people who work with new communication technologies, presented the third annual Webby Awards in San Francisco last month. The awards recognize the best Web sites in 22 categories, such as the arts, commerce, politics and law, and television.
A panel of 220 judges — which included leaders in the technology and entertainment industries, journalists, and artists — nominated 110 Web sites, from which it selected the winners.
More than 100,000 visitors to the academy’s Web site also voted for their favorite sites from among the nominees. The Web sites that received the most votes in each of the 22 categories received People’s Voice Awards.
PBS Online (http://www.pbs.org), the Web site run by the Public Broadcasting Service, in Alexandria, Va., won both the Webby Award and the People’s Voice Award in the television category.
Other Webby Award winners include SeniorNet (http://www.seniornet.org) in the community category; Journey North (http://www.learner.org/jnorth), a project of the Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting Math and Science Project, education; the California Voter Foundation (http://www.calvoter.org), politics and law; Free Speech Internet Television (http://www.freespeech.org), radio; and Exploratorium, a museum in San Francisco, (http://www.exploratorium.edu), science.
Other People’s Voice Award winners include Mayo Clinic Health Oasis (http://www.mayohealth.org) in the health category and Free! The Freedom Forum Online (http://www.freedomforum.org), politics and law.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Go to http://www.webbyawards.com.
