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THE
AWARDS
AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS:
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THE
BEST CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN INTERNET SITES: GENERAL |
This award is conferred
on those sites with an overall level of excellence in depth and breadth
of information presented, quality of presentation and site layout, diversity
of contents, regularity of maintenance and updates, and which present an
educational resource for the public that is of exceptional value. Moreover,
this category of award can be conferred on sites that are of any type,
i.e.: personal home pages, institutional websites, community sites, or,
indeed, of any other kind.
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| THE BEST CARIBBEAN
AMERINDIAN INFORMATION RESOURCE SITES |
This award is presented
to sites that the CAC editors perceive as providing an excellent range
of information, whether in the form of documents, discussions, news, testimonies,
papers, archival information, etcetera. However, sites in this category
need not be visually appealing, professionally designed, or exceptionally
organized. Hence, this is a "contents only" award. Information presented
on a site considered for this award need not be "original" information
gathered or produced by the designers of the given site.
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| THE BEST CARIBBEAN
AMERINDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS SITES |
This award is granted
to either of two types of sites: 1) those sites that belong to particular
"arts and crafts" type of organizations, which also have Internet sites
that are particularly valuable in terms of design and content; and, 2)
those sites used to actually feature Caribbean Amerindian arts and crafts,
either artifacts, or those produced by a given artist or crafts worker.
In this second case, any site that presents samples of music, displays
images and paintings, or showcases a wide range of other creations online
would be considered. The first type of site need not have as much content
to be considered for the award.
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| THE BEST CARIBBEAN
AMERINDIAN COMMUNITY SITES |
Awards in this category
are granted to any Caribbean Amerindian organization with at least a modestly
well designed website and a considerable depth and range of content. Sites
that outline the history of a particular group, community or people, and
where the visitor can get a clear sense of what it is they are looking
at and what it means, are especially favoured. Sites that are not favoured
are those offering few details of who or what is behind the site, with
no clear purpose to the site, that are ambiguous as to the creators of
the site, and that provide very little in the way of an educational experience.
The word "community" here (which is as problematic as any other term) is
meant to be a neutral compromise between "group," "club," "movement," "tribe"
or "nation."
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| THE BEST CARIBBEAN
AMERINDIAN PERSONAL HOME PAGES |
The intent and applicability
of this award is designed to be fairly open and general. However, this
award is conferred upon sites that are by and/or about a particular
individual, or at most a nuclear family, that identifies with a Caribbean
Amerindian heritage. In other words, the content cannot be like that of
any kind of formal organization nor be about large groups of either related
or fictive kin. In addition, sites in this award category need not be professionally
designed or even contain large volumes of information. They must, however,
be easy to navigate, easy to read, and fairly quick to load.
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AWARD
RECIPIENTS:
BEST CARIBBEAN
AMERINDIAN SITES: GENERAL
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Granted
to
BIARAKU--First People of a Sacred
Place (http://www.biaraku.com/), on Thursday, 20 July, 2000:
award merited for exceptional quality in both design and content; depth
and range of information; elegance of presentation, match between content,
aims and presentation; and, in overall terms, as an excellent resource
for web visitors.
BEST CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN
INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Granted
to
GARIFUNA WORLD (http://www.garifuna-world.com/),
on Saturday, 23 December, 2000: award merited for consistently providing a large
volume of informative and substantive Internet pages over the past several
years, and for promoting and leading in the establishment of the Garifuna
presence on the Internet.
BEST CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN
ARTS & CRAFTS SITES
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Granted
to
ROGER ATIHUIBANCEX'S MOUNTAIN
WIND GROUP (http://www.PresenciaTaina.org),
on Monday, 10 June, 2002: award merited as a uniquely valuable, well designed
and informative site with an arts and crafts content.
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Granted
to
PRESENCIA TAINA.TV (http://www.presenciataina.tv),
on Monday, 10 June, 2002: award merited as a uniquely valuable, well designed
and informative site with an arts and crafts content.
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Granted to
PRESENCIA TAINA (http://www.presenciataina.tv), on Wednesday, 02 August,
2000: award merited as a uniquely valuable, well designed and informative
site with an arts and crafts content.
BEST CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN
COMMUNITY SITES
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Granted
to
THE JATIBONICU TAINO TRIBAL NATION
OF BORIKEN (PUERTO RICO)
(http://www.taino-tribe.org/), on
Saturday,23 December, 2000: award merited for an informative and substantive Web
site, that has exercised a significant presence on the Internet for the past
several years, whilst also offering a wide range of information resources,
articles, and essays. This site has been linked to from a wide array of other
Websites across the Internet and is still one of the most heavily visited sites
focusing on Caribbean Amerindian issues.
BEST CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN
PERSONAL HOME PAGES
This
page was last updated on Friday, 13 April,
2007
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