Vietnamese Enterprises’ Golden Web Contest 2008 (GWC 2008), hosted by the Laborer Press in coordination with the Bureau of Information Technology & E-commerce, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communication, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade, Ho Chi Minh City Young Businessmen Association and Ho Chi Minh City Television, was held in order to discover and honor the best Vietnamese enterprise websites.

GWC 2008 selected the winner from enterprise websites which support advancement of e-commerce and contribute to the development of information technology and e-commerce activities.  S2i Web from Canada, which has been hosting and selecting annual best webs for the past 8 successive years, was chosen to be the consulting partner.

The Contest’s attendees:

  Vietnamese Enterprises with certified legal entities or registered ICP web pages.

  Domestic and foreign readers, whom take part in voting for their most favorite web pages.

Selective criteria: 
  Visual impression: tone values, block layout, image effects, attractiveness, and theme.

  Technical: Web page structure, sitemap; technology, coding technique, links order, internal information search; compatibility with different web-browsers; accessing speed; security; supporting functions (enabling search engines to approach, debug, or interact with other utilities).

  Content: coherent, concise, plain qualities, professional information quality, essential to users.
  Communication and popularity: referrals in term of information in other available web pages; or the density and order of presence as results in search engines, including free or paid search. 

Registration duration: 
Enterprises can apply to attend the contest from15-10-2008 to 28-02-2009.  The registration form, published on the Laborer Press’ homepage at www.nld.com.vn or webvangvn.nld.com.vn, can be submitted to the Laborer Press’ head office, 127 Võ Văn Tần, District 3 - HCMC.  Contestant approval decisions are made by the Board of Examiners and Technical Committee, which are staffed with prestigious experts in the fields of e-commerce and information technology. 

Voting round duration: 
Voting results, by readers for 30 typical websites, are accepted from 10-4-2009 to 10-5-2009.  Readers can vote directly on the website of the Laborer Press at www.nld.com.vn or webvangvn.nld.com.vn. 

Winner Awarding Ceremony: 29-05-2009. 

Award: 
Honoring and awarding 30 golden cups for the best 30 websites for promotion and typical e-commerce:  Best website for promotion, valued at 30 million VND.  Best e-commerce website, valued at 30 million VND.  Most favorite website, valued at 20 million VND.  New website with most potential, valued at 20 million VND. 

Prizes for readers: 
Readers voting for the winner of most favorite websites and most accurately forecasting the correlating number of votes are awarded with three prizes: 1 first prize valued at 10 million VND, 1 second prize valued at 7 million VND, 1 third prize valued at 5 million VND and 10 consolation prizes valued at 1 million VND each. 
(For more information, please visit the Laborer Press at www.nld.com.vn or webvangvn.nld.com.vn).