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http://www.woyaa.com/topweb/
In Search for Quality Web Content
Noel YAVO, MD Woyaa
ADF '99 Exhibition
Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia 24-28 October 1999
http://www.woyaa.com/topweb/
• Context
• Objective
• Evaluation Rules and criterias
• Working procedure
• Evaluation Survey
• Evaluation results
• Recommendations
• Conclusions
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Context
• Exponential growth
• High user expectations
• Specific issues
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• Assess the African Web content
• Recommend an approach for improving the quality of the content.
• Areas of Education, Science, Culture, Public information and Community development
• Present in an integrated Web site open to all
Objective
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• Defined and made available on the project Web site to evaluators
• Grouped into relevant and easily understood and measured categories
• Contents and Credibility, Design and Navigation, Interactivity and Multimedia techniques
• African Web sites
• Measured from 1 to 5
Evaluation Rules & Criterias
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• 1. Sites Pre-selection by Internet users, Woyaa! and UNESCO will pre-select between 20 and 30 for each category
• 2. Evaluation based on short list by evaluators using Web-based interactive evaluation form
• 3. In each category, the votes for each site have been aggregated and sites have been ranked.
• 4. An electronic forum, mailing-list
• 5. Best 50 sites selected are awarded TOP50 mention listed on the TOP50 African Web site
Working Procedure
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• Content & Credibility
• Design & Navigation
• Interactivity & Multimedia
Evaluation Survey
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CATEGORY Overall Sites
AVG All categories 3,4 310AVG Community Development 3,3 36AVG Culture 3,1 50AVG Education 3,2 38AVG Public Information 3,6 159AVG Sciences 3,1 30
Evaluation Results
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Evaluation Results
CRITERIA Overall
Content 3,4 Credibility 3,5 Navigation 3,6 Design 3,4 Interactivity 3,4
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• High proportion of non-african sites on Africa
• High proportion of sites hosted abroad (US, CA, FR, UK)
• Acceptable credibility and navigability
• To-be-improved content, design, interactivity, Xmedia
• Insufficient Education, Community development sites
• Un-avalability rate 5%
• Long access transit routes
• Promotion techniques
• Non-South-african sites (70/30)
• Design skills (graphics, HTML, interactivity)
Evaluation Results
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• Design skills (graphics, HTML, interactivity)
• Low-usage of security mechanism
• National orientation or multinational sites
• International, NGO funding, Personal Sites
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• Increase number of sites in of Education, Sciences and Community development
• Increase volume of information contents produced by Africans with emphasis to accuracy and currency
• Public sector institutions as well as International organizations to increase their example role and provide incentives and infrastructures supporting public content initiatives
• Initiatives that improves the skills (design, content production)
• Common Web hosting and management tools and infrastructures that guaranty the availability, quality and performance
Recommendations
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Recommendations
• Online training and education resources for digital content and Web sites designers
• Increase the use of Web techniques (meta tags) for insuring sites visibility
• Initiatives (policy and mechanism) to insure copyrights protection and provide incentive to put content online
• Information and awareness campaigns on the digital society requirements, opportunities and threats
• Definition of sites design and production standards and build-up of common / shared Web resources for communities (education, development, sciences)
• Regional and pan-African Web sites and content production or management initiatives
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• The number of Web sites built by Africans and hosted in Africa as well as the number of African netters has significantly increased despite the limited information society infrastructure.
• The higher costs for producing and managing Web contents combined with lack of copyrights protection and technical skills as well as the lack of adequate revenue generating items prevent a rapid and quality build-up.
• Public sectors have a key role to play to show the example, supporting training and education initiatives as well taking the measures
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