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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><P class=headlines><SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>KINGSTON, (JIS):
Friday, December 01, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Members of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Computer and Research Services Department, which has won the international website award, discuss an article on the front page of the site, www.jis.gov.jm. Seated (from left) are: Computer and Research Services Manager, Andrea Bryan; Webmaster, Carla James-Nicholson and Web Designer, Jennifer Jones-D'Aguilar. Standing (from left) are: Systems Administrator Uves Edwards and IT Technician Andrew Campbell.</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=storytext align=justify>The website for the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), located at www.jis.gov.jm, was yesterday (November 28), adjudged the Best Website Representing a Nation. The winning site was chosen from a field of seven websites that were nominated for the award.<P class=storytext align=justify>Recognised in the Culture Category in the Black Web Awards (BWA), the JIS was one of more than 500 websites from across the world that were nominated by the awarding organisation, Linton Publications out of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.<P class=storytext align=justify>The organisation launched the BWA this year to celebrate African, African-American and Caribbean online excellence in some 100 categories.<P class=storytext align=justify>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the agency, Carmen Tipling, told JIS News that she was proud of the achievement. Giving kudos to the JIS Computer and Research Services team, she said that, "they constructed and are maintaining an excellent website, which operates as a mini-portal for access to all Government of Jamaica Ministries and Agencies".<P class=storytext align=justify>Mrs. Tipling said the website, which hosts more than 3,000 pages, with links to all CARICOM member states, took a great deal of "smart work and dedication" to ensure that it could house user-friendly and ready-to-use information in a manner that was easily retrievable by its visitors, which include thousands of Jamaicans in the Diaspora.<P class=storytext align=justify>Outlining the groundwork that culminated in the award-winning website, she said that in the year 2000, th
Friday, December 01, 2006
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=385 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=7>
</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle></TD><TD vAlign=center>PRINT THIS</TD><TD align=middle width=30></TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle></TD><TD vAlign=center>SEND TO A FRIEND</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#000000 colSpan=7></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=394 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Members of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Computer and Research Services Department, which has won the international website award, discuss an article on the front page of the site, www.jis.gov.jm. Seated (from left) are: Computer and Research Services Manager, Andrea Bryan; Webmaster, Carla James-Nicholson and Web Designer, Jennifer Jones-D'Aguilar. Standing (from left) are: Systems Administrator Uves Edwards and IT Technician Andrew Campbell.</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=storytext align=justify>The website for the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), located at www.jis.gov.jm, was yesterday (November 28), adjudged the Best Website Representing a Nation. The winning site was chosen from a field of seven websites that were nominated for the award.<P class=storytext align=justify>Recognised in the Culture Category in the Black Web Awards (BWA), the JIS was one of more than 500 websites from across the world that were nominated by the awarding organisation, Linton Publications out of Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.<P class=storytext align=justify>The organisation launched the BWA this year to celebrate African, African-American and Caribbean online excellence in some 100 categories.<P class=storytext align=justify>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the agency, Carmen Tipling, told JIS News that she was proud of the achievement. Giving kudos to the JIS Computer and Research Services team, she said that, "they constructed and are maintaining an excellent website, which operates as a mini-portal for access to all Government of Jamaica Ministries and Agencies".<P class=storytext align=justify>Mrs. Tipling said the website, which hosts more than 3,000 pages, with links to all CARICOM member states, took a great deal of "smart work and dedication" to ensure that it could house user-friendly and ready-to-use information in a manner that was easily retrievable by its visitors, which include thousands of Jamaicans in the Diaspora.<P class=storytext align=justify>Outlining the groundwork that culminated in the award-winning website, she said that in the year 2000, th
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