The first WSA Road Show event of 2008 took place in Iran on February 19-21, 2008. Iran, as a developing country, benefited greatly from this event as it promoted creativity and quality e-content among Iranian developers and helped them to get more familiar with local and global best practice in e-content. Reviewing the world’s best examples boosted the self-confidence of many young Iranian e-content developers.

The Iran WSA Road Show organized by Ehssan Riazi Esfehani, co-founder and chairman of e-solutions festival, consisted of a 3-day exhibition and a gala. The exhibition, with focus on e-content and e-solutions specially the winners of the 2nd e-solutions festival (Approved national contest for WSA05-07), was a successful event with hundreds of professionals, students and content providers gathering to visit the exhibition.

A special pavilion was dedicated to the WSA Road Show, where visitors could review all 40 products and receive information on the WSA objectives, programs and winners.

In addition to e-content providers, special pavilions were dedicated to IT papers including Fanavaran (ITmen.ir) and Elme Rooz (ITobserver.ir). Also MAGFA, IDRO and ESFRD and the leading supporters of ICT and e-content projects was there to help small companies and groups with tools and methods or financial aids in their path to make their creative idea and quality e-content suitable for local and global markets.

The gala with presence of important IT persons, all local WSA 07 nominees (five per category) and winners (2 per category), ICT managers of governmental organizations and private companies and other specially invited guests was a special event for Iran e-content and e-solutions development. After the key speeches, the local winners and the Middle East winner (e-science) received their gold medals and diplomas from the representatives of Supreme Council of ICT and IDRO. The last and most important section was five-minute speeches of the local winners presenting their quality e-contents to the audience.

In addition to major local reporters from IRNA, ISNA, Fanavaran, YJC, scientific and economical papers, international reporters from ZDF and Press TV covered this event.