Baltic Challenge Selects 25 IT Finalists

The winner of the Baltic Challenge Award 2006 will be announced at the Baltic Challenge Conference & Award's Event, hosted by the City of Riga on August 24-25. The event includes seminars; an exhibition of nominated ICT projects and a prize ceremony and banquet. The Baltic Challenge Event will be part of the Riga Forum, gathering regional leaders and politicians as well as innovators and entrepreneurs.

Twenty-five projects have been selected as finalists. "We hope to see all these projects presented and shared with the rest of the world during the Baltic Challenge Awards ceremony in Riga," said Linnar Viik, chairman of the Baltic Challenge jury and associate professor of intellectual capital theory at IT College of Estonia.

The following projects are finalists in the Governance and Administration category:

• e-belarus.org of Minsk, Belarus
• eCommercial Traffic of Stockholm, Sweden
• Electronic Declaration System of Vilnius, Lithuania
• E-Procurement Solution for the Procurement Monitoring Bureau of the Republic of Latvia Riga, Latvia
• European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) of Helsinki, Finland
• Gateway Sweden of Stockholm, Sweden
• GeoWeb -- Geodetic GIS Database of Tartu City Government of Tartu, Estonia
• inCaptiva XForm of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Nacka 24, E-Government Solution of Stockholm, Sweden
• Vilnius e-Municipality of Vilnius, Lithuania.