Kiwa’s Qbooks make world summit e-media awards
Thursday 7th April, 2011
Maori-owned Kiwa Media Group will soon find out if it has made the top 40 in the United Nations-backed World Summit Awards for multimedia and electronic content.
Kiwa's QBook interactive digital book technology won the e-learning and education section of the New Zealand awards, and it will be scrutinised by the grand jury in Hong Kong over the next week.
Kiwa head Rhonda Kite of Te Aupouri says it's an honour to make the finals.
Other New Zealand finalists include the Gibson Group for an interactive video wall in Copenhagen, the MiniMonos online virtual world for children, the Sparx computerised self-help program for young people with depression, and the Environment Ministry's LUCAS Land Use and Carbon Analysis System for tracking New Zealand's contribution to fighting climate change.
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