| Nominations are open for the 2010
Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award! Details on
the wiki!
BACKGROUND
The Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award is a
collaborative effort between Planeta.com
and the Secretariat of the Convention
on Biological Diversity to showcase best practices in web-based
technologies helping indigenous people manage tourism in a biodiversity-friendly
way.
The 2010 Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award
is organized with the support of the Heidehof
Foundation and is presented to an indigenous tourism operation
which has a website that promotes sustainable practices and
educates visitors on cultural protocols and biodiversity conservation
CRITERIA
The Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award creates
an opportunity for indigenous people and communities to improve
their websites. Among the criteria for selection, the website
should ...
* be regularly updated
* link to other relevant sites
* reflect indigenous ownership, authenticity and heritage
* encourage sustainable livelihoods, respect of life on earth
* be user-friendly
* be trustworthy
* provide clear contextual information
* have text in English
* add the award logo
Bonus points to applicants making the most of Web
2.0 channels, including Blogs, Facebook, Flickr, Google
Earth, Twitter and YouTube. If you have these services or an
RSS feed, let us know!
VOTING
Voting takes place in January and February 2010. Respondents
are asked to rate how user-friendly the site appears. They are
asked to evaluate how well the site reflects indigenous ownership,
authenticity and heritage, how well the site encourages respect
of life on earth. Multiple votes are not permitted. Honesty
counts! The decision of the judging panel and popular vote is
final.
2009
Winners of the 2009 Award were Guurrbi
Tours and Indigenous
Trails. Details
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