Urban Group won Gold Prize and
i-Urban Portal won 56 Silver Prizes
in 2005 Web Care Awards
Date: 11/15/2005
The Corporate Website of Hong Kong's Premier Property Asset and Facility Management Group - Urban Group won the Gold Award and the Property Websites under the i-Urban™ Portal obtained outstandingly 56 Silver Awards in the Web Care Award 2005 organized by the Internet Professionals Association (iProA), making Urban to become a major winner of this important recognition in 3 consecutive years.
Mr K M So, Executive Director of Urban Group said during the prize presentation ceremony held on 22nd October 2005, "Our outstanding achievements in the Web Care Award recognize our endeavours on devising easily accessible websites for different groups of customers of Urban. The i-Urban™ portal is a major part of our unique Sm@rtUrban™ Systems, which is tailor-made for Urban's customers. The sophisticated systems enable us to provide more effective and efficient services to our customers."
Mr K M So stated, "It has been the third consecutive year that Urban Group won the Web Care Award, showing our consistent service performance and reflecting our pursuit in Total Quality Management. We will keep on providing quality Internet services for our customers and keep abreast of the latest development on Internet communication in the coming future."
The Urban Group Corporate Website not only provides substantial features and information for the users, but is also installed with specially designed mechanism for those visually impaired people. Whereas the i-Urban™ portal specializes in establishing unique websites for properties managed by Urban Group. It combines information-laden websites and online property management concept to provide 24-hour updated property news and a variety of online services for its customers.
In organizing the Web Care Campaign, iProA aims to encourage both the public and private organizations in Hong Kong to offer 'barrier-free' and easily accessible websites for the needy communities so that more people can benefit from Internet services. They have published the "Easy Guide to Building No Barrier Web Sites" booklet in 2001 to provide guidelines to web site designers, commercial organizations and media channels on how to build up web sites that can be used by different parties of the community.
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