Date: 13/1/2010
The corporate website of Urban Group (www.urban.com.hk) recently won the Web Care Award - Excellence Award and 54 Property Websites under the i-Urban™ Portal of the Group obtained Web Care Award - Silver Award in the Web Care Campaign 2009 organized by the Internet Professional Association (iProA), showing their efforts in building up a barrier free communication network and contributions in corporate social responsibility.
Mr. K M So, Executive Director of Urban Group states, "It has been the 6th consecutive year that Urban Group won the Web Care Awards, recognizing our endeavors in devising easily accessible websites for the people. Our corporate website not only provides substantial features and information for the browsers, but is also installed with specially designed mechanism for the visually impaired people. Whereas the i-Urban™ Portal specializes in establishing a unique website for individual properties managed by Urban Group. It combines information-laden websites and our online property management concept to provide 24-hour updated property news and a variety of online services for our customers."
He continues, "Today, information technology is essential to our daily lives. Being a responsible company, we should emphasize the accessibility by every one in the society, including the under-privileged groups when designing our websites so as to establish a barrier free environment to obtain information and enjoy browsing through the websites."
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 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.
Urban Group, a member of NWS Holdings Limited (Hong Kong Stock Code: 659), is one of the leading Real Estate and Facility Management Services Groups in Hong Kong. Currently, the Group manages 230 projects territory-wide and serving 1 million people in Hong Kong.
Award list of Websites under Urban Group
Excellence Award
www.urban.com.hk
Sliver Award
1 www.aldrichgarden.com.hk
2 www.baguiovilla.com.hk
3 www.belairmonte.com.hk
4 www.blessingsgarden.com.hk
5 www.cheongshingcourt.com.hk
6 www.chingwahcourt.com.hk
7 www.chingwangcourt.com.hk
8 www.cityoneshatin.com.hk
9 www.clovellycourt.com.hk
10 www.dragoninncourt.com.hk
11 www.eustoncourt.com.hk
12 www.flourishcourt.com.hk
13 www.funglaicourt.com.hk
14 www.greenwoodterrace.com.hk
15 www.handsomecourt.com.hk
16 www.hangchuncourt.com.hk
17 www.harbourheights.com.hk
18 www.harmonygarden.com.hk
19 www.hongleecourt.com.hk
20 www.illuminationterrace.com.hk
21 www.kalungcourt.com.hk
22 www.katincourt.com.hk
23 www.kaiserestate.com.hk
24 www.kamtaicourt.com.hk
25 www.kingsfordterrace.com.hk
26 www.leikingwan.com.hk
27 www.lungfunggarden.com.hk
28 www.meifoosunchuen.com.hk
29 www.merton.com.hk
30 www.montecarlton.com.hk
31 www.ningfungcourt.com.hk
32 www.ningyeungterrace.com.hk
33 www.parcpalais.com.hk
34 www.parisian.com.hk
35 www.parkvale.com.hk
36 www.pierheadgarden.com.hk
37 www.pokhongestate.com.hk
38 www.primeviewgarden.com.hk
39 www.queensterrace.com.hk
40 www.rhythmgarden.com.hk
41 www.rivieragardens.com.hk
42 www.scenicrise.com.hk
43 www.scholasticgarden.com.hk
44 www.serenoverde.com.hk
45 www.siupongcourt.com.hk
46 www.southhillcrest.com.hk
47 www.tinlaicourt.com.hk
48 www.tinyaucourt.com.hk
49 www.tsuininggarden.com.hk
50 www.tungchuncourt.com.hk
51 www.villacarlton.com.hk
52 www.wingfaicentre.com.hk
53 www.yinlaicourt.com.hk
54 www.i-urban.com.hk
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