Wibike, the computer application of Ikon Multimedia on which the navigation and multimedia software of Tabike is basedhas been selected to represent Italy at the World Summit Award Mobile.
World Summit Award Mobile (WSA-Mobile) is an initiative on a world level for selecting and promoting the best content and the most innovative applications available on a mobile platform in cooperation with WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) and carried out in collaboration with UNESCO, the United Nations organisation for Industrial Development (UNIDO) and the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID).
WSA promotes cultural diversity and single identities, the creation of information content that respects identities, the digitisation of informative and scientific content and cultural assets.
The initiative is aimed at making the benefits brought by the new information society accessible and significant for all mankind and in particular to increase public awareness and give merited public recognition to the best e-Content products created in the entire world.
The Tabike application is a candidate to receive this recognition in the Entertainment & Lifestyle category devoted to mobile entertainment products and innovative services that, using the ownership of small devices that can be worn, offer interactive and enjoyable mobile entertainment with content and accessories that are able to improve and stimulate the quality of life.
It is of great satisfaction to the Terre di Aquileia by Bike tourist products club, its staff and partners, the businesses that belong to it and the municipal administrations that have promoted the project, firstly for the Municipality of Villa Vicentina, project leader, and for its Mayor, Mario Pischedda, far-sighted author of the initiative within a programme of territorial exploitation for which Ikon designed and produced this application.
And, as it stands now, this software of international value is used exclusively within the territory of the product club that includes the municipalities of Aquileia, Campolongo Tapogliano, Cervignano del Friuli, Fiumicello, Ruda, Terzo di Aquileia and Villa Vicentina, with the involvement of 20 tourism businesses and its management entrusted to Sodales Aquileia.
