[Asis-l] Winners of the SIG III Internatiponal Paper Contest

[rhill at asis.org]

The message below was posted on August 12, but the author, Liwen Vaughan,
has not see it appear, so I am re-posting.  Dick Hill
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Apologies for cross posting.


Winners of the 2005 ASIST SIG III International Paper Contest

The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST) 
International Information Issues Special Interest Group (SIG III) is pleased

to announce the winners of its sixth International Paper Contest:

1st Place
Lukman Ibraheem Diso
Country: Nigeria
Paper: Information Technology Policy Formulation In Nigeria: Answers Without

Questions

2nd Place
Sanjeev Kumar & Nandini Dutta
Country: India
Paper: Designing a National Fashion Information System: A Perspective Plan

3rd Place
M.G. Sreekumar & T. Sunitha
Country: India
Paper: Seamless Aggregation and Integration of Diverse Datastreams: 
Essential Strategies for Building Practical Digital Libraries and Electronic

Information Systems

4th Place
Selenay Aytac
Country: Turkey
Paper: Multilingual Information Retrieval on the Internet: A Case Study of 
Turkish Users

5th Place
Alma Beatriz Rivera-Aguilera
Country: Mexico
Paper: XML Markup and Retrieval in Magazine Articles: Exploratory Results 
and Implementation Issues

6th Place
Akshay Mathur
Country: India
Paper: ICT and Rural Societies: Opportunities for Growth


The theme of this year's paper contest is "Bringing Research and Practice 
Together - the Developing World Perspective." The six winning papers were 
selected from 30 papers by 39 authors from 12 developing countries received 
for this year's competition. The contest has also seen its first winner from

Latin America.

Thanks to the generous donations from Elsevier, SIGs, Chapters, LIS Schools,

and many other organizations and individuals, we have raised $9,000 to 
support the International Paper Contest. Each of the eight winners will be 
awarded a two-year individual membership in ASIST. In addition, the first 
place winner will be rewarded a minimum of $1,000 to attend the 2005 ASIST 
Annual Meeting, October 28-November 2, in Charlotte, North Carolina. These 
winning papers and other submitted papers for the competition will be 
considered for publication by Elsevier's International Information and 
Library Review, which is edited by Toni Carbo.

Congratulations to the winners! The Contest Committee worked really hard in 
selecting the winning papers. This year's paper contest was organized by 
Liwen Vaughan (Chair) from University of Western Ontario, and Duncan Omole 
at World Bank.
This year's judges are:
. K.T. Anuradha, National Centre for Science Information, India
. Yufei Du, Wayne State University
. Nathalie Leroy, United Nations
. Merlyna Lim, Social Construction of Technology (SCoT) Research Group, 
Indonesia
. Ifeanyi Njoku, Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology, Nigeria
. Duncan Omole, The World Bank
. Jadranka Stojanovski, Rudjer Boskovic Institute Library, Croatia
. Jun Wang, Beijing University, China
. Julian Warner, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
. Yin Zhang, Kent State University

Their effort makes it possible to develop and sustain this international 
network of digital scholars and experts on digital libraries and information

technology in developing countries. More information about the paper 
competition is available from the SIG III website 
(http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGIII/) under Paper Contest.