After having practised with three editions of the AdPrint advertising festival, PR and BTL agency Millenium Image & Communication Group is now focusing on the new economy, by organising the first Romanian Internet festival in October.
INTERNETICS is a contest dedicated to all the Romanian website designers and open for Romanian and foreign websites to participate, provided that they are made by Romanian web designers.
The contest takes place under the patronage of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and aims at rewarding the use of the Internet as an autonomous method of economic and social development and as an environment dedicated to social interaction and communications.
The Romanian Internet festival will begin on September 1, 2001 when the official website of the event – www.internetics.ro, is to be launched. Software companies, advertising agencies, web design agencies, independent web developers and their beneficiaries are expected to enter all the works they regard as representative and likely to win in the competition throughout September 1- 20.
Entries are accepted only online, via the festival’s website, with the contenders required to fill in a form and state that they are the owners of the websites entered and that the client for which the site in question was developed agrees to it taking part in the competition.
The information about the participation fee and about entering the contest, as well as the detailed description of the categories in which they can compete and of the evaluation criteria will be published on the official website of the festival. The organisers estimate some 500-1,000 sites to be entered during the 20 days.
During the first week after the conclusion of the registration for the contest, the jury members will select the sites entered according to their quality.
Each member of the jury will grade every site with 1 to 5 points, depending on the criteria of the section in which it was entered, so that only ten sites in each category will go into the next stage of the competition, to be held between September 20-27, with the conditions available on the INTERNETICS website.
The five nominations for each section will be selected during September 28 -October 8, based on the grades from the jury for all the sites still in competition, with the winners to be announced on October 13.
The competition of the best Romanian websites entails several separate stages: the entry of the sites, the selection for the contest and the selection of the winners and the awarding of the prizes respectively. The competition has 14 sections, with a special prize to be awarded in addition to those 14.
The special prize will be the “The Award for Promoting Internet Industry in Romania” to acknowledge the special contribution an individual or a group of people had in the development of the Internet industry in Romania.