Media Watch on Climate Change Nominated for the Austrian National Prize for Multimedia and e-Business

Ranked among the Top 3 applications in the category of "Energy, Climate and Environment / Corporate Social Responsibility", the Department of New Media Technology's Media Watch on Climate Change has been nominated for the Austria National Prize for Multimedia and e-Business 2009. It is an annual award established in 1997, sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor, which intends to honor outstanding multimedia projects.

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• Media Watch on Climate Change
• IDIOM Project (Information Diffusion Across Interactive Online Media)
• Austrian National Prize for Multimedia and e-Business

To improve environmental awareness and help users access topical and relevant information, the Media Watch on Climate Change provides a comprehensive and continuously updated account of online media coverage on climate change and related issues. The portal aggregates, filters and visualizes environmental content from the Web sites of various stakeholders: 150 Anglo-American news media sites, blogs, environmental organizations, and the corporate sector. The user manual is available in PDF format and contains a detailed description of the portal's search functionality, trend charts and visual exploration features.

The Media Watch on Climate Change has been developed as part of the IDIOM and RAVEN research projects, funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency within the strategic objective FIT-IT Semantic Systems (www.fit-it.at).