The winners of Azerbaijan National Internet Award NETTY 2017 were awarded
A solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of Azerbaijan National Internet Award NETTY 2017, which is organized with the full support of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, was held at Park Inn Hotel. The contest has been held for the 13th time in the country.
The event was attended by representatives of major IT companies in the country, NETTY award nominees, media representatives and numerous guests.
At the ceremony, it was noted that NETTY has been successfully held for more than 10 years.
It was also noted that NETTY Award is Azerbaijan’s first professional award in the field of information technologies, which was launched in 2004 to promote the national segment of the World Wide Web and the IT market as a whole. "The contest is held annually to award Azerbaijan’s best websites and identify the individuals who have contributed to the development of the information technologies field."
This year, the Expert Council and the Virtual Jury held a parallel voting to determine the nominees for NETTY 2017.
Then based on the results of this voting (the Expert Council selects three nominees for each award category and the Virtual Jury selects three nominees from the total number of participants for the nomination "Virtual Jury's Choice" ), the NETTY Academy held a voting to determine a single winner for each of the nominations.
Within this period, a voting on non-competitive and incentive honorary nominations was also held.
Any visitor of the website "www.netty.az" can become a member of the Virtual Jury and participate in the selection of nominees using information from his Facebook or Twitter profile.
Expert Council is formed via the personal invitation of the Organizing Committee of the Award.
The Netty Academy is represented by influential people working in the public, government and business structures.
Traditionally, the contest announced the best sites in Azerbaijan in the following nominations: "Azerbaijan", "The state website", "Education and science", "Art and culture", "Society", "Information and news", "Service website", "Corporate website", "The best website in the field of e-commerce", "Sports", "Personal website", "Virtual Jury’s choice".
Note that the nomination "Entertainment" was cancelled this year. At the same time, two new social networks – related nominations ("Man of the Year in social networks" and "The Company of the Year in social networks) were included in the contest.
The winners of the honorary nominations "Program of the Year", "Enrichment of development of national information technologies" and "IT Event of the Year" were also awarded within the contest.
Based on the results of analysis of applications of the nominees for the "IT Event of the Year" nomination, the winners of "The Company of the Year" nomination were also identified.
The nomination "IT Manager of the Year" was included in this year’s contest in order to identify the best managers of IT departments in the country (regardless of the organization's sphere of activity).
Below is given the list of the winners of Azerbaijan National Internet Award NETTY 2017:
www.fontlar.info – in the nomination "Azerbaijan"
The website of the Ministry of Defense - in the nomination "The state website"
Prospect Academy Educational Center - in the nomination "Education and science"
Gobustan National Historical and Artistic Reserve - in the nomination "Art and culture"
The website of "Green Baku" ecological organization - in the nomination "Society"
The website of the information agency "Sputnik Azerbaijan" - in the nomination "Information and news"
www.lalafo.com - in the nomination "Service website"
"Ateshgah Insurance" - in the nomination "Corporate website"
www.zoomagazin.az - in the nomination "The best website in the field of e-commerce"
The website of IV Islamic Solidarity Games - in the nomination "Sports"
The website of DJ Kamran Garalov - in the nomination "Personal website"
The portal for finding tutors - in the nomination "Choice of social network"
https://www.facebook.com/bodycare.online.shop/ - in the nomination "The best Facebook page"
The mobile application
"Baku Airport" - in the nomination "Program of the Year"
Information Manager of ADA University Rahid Alekberli - in the nomination "Enrichment of development of national information technologies"
The project "Public Internet" launched by Baktelekom at the initiative of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies - in the nomination "IT Event of the Year"
Note that the company "Azercell" is the chief partner of NETTY. The exhibition "Bakutel", the companies "SmartHost.az" and "Renley.az" and the project "Kassir.az" are partners of the contest.
"Infocity.az" and "CBC.az" TV channels and "1news.az", "Oxu.az", "Disput.az" and "Salamnews.org" websites provided informational support to Azerbaijan National Internet Award NETTY 2017.