Another LOL
When I saw a banner on Jazarah that says “Jordan Web Awards“, I got curious as I haven’t heard of them and as I thought it was quite an interesting idea.
The homepage states the following, “Under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of ICT in Jordan, The Jordan Web Awards Committee has the honor to present the JORDAN WEB AWARDS COMPETITION, organized by MediaScope.
For the first time a web awards competition is held in Jordan. Jordan Web Awards was created to recognize excellence in web design and development skills. It is open to all designers or developers, giving them an opportunity to showcase their work. This event aims at bringing together web design companies, freelancers and web owners in a competition for the best website in each of the designated 24 categories. ”
So far so good, right? It’s quite interesting to see such initiatives in Jordan, especially as I’m personally quite pleased with the Jordanian web field, at least compared to other Arab countries.
Naturally though, the incentive behind the “good” is soon exposed, as I discover that not only do they have submission fees per website, but this so called “Registration Fee” is “only” JD 95 + 16% sales tax per site! HA!
So much for the age of Web 2.0, this is a sad sign that we are not even online yet.
Pathetic, I say.
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