Week of Information-Communication Technologies InfoCom 2009, which included national ICT summit and ICTExpo 2009 exhibition, completed on 25 September with traditional awarding of the winners of Internet Festival. On the result of the public voting and decision of authoritative jury were determined web-resources on 13 topical and 3 special nominations. First place and Zolotaya Podkova (Golden horseshoe) award in prestigious nomination “The Best Corporate Site” was conferred to www.beeline.uz portal.

Commenting the event, Unitel Director-General Igor Pilyugin said: “This year our sites, as in mirror, reflected all integration processes of Unitel and Buzton. In March, with launch of Beeline Business, convenient resources for corporate customers - b2b.beeline.uz - emerged. Two months earlier, when integration process was completed, all information on Internet services and fixed telephony were transferred to here. We are grateful to Internet community of Uzbekistan for such high valuation of our work and we promise to develop our site, making it more convenient and informative.”

Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan and Director-General of the Uzbek Agency for Communication and Information (UzACI) Abdulla Aripov stated: “Despite global financial-economic crisis, ICT industry in Uzbekistan is growing fast pace. UzACI and the Government will do all possible for further development of the industry.”

About 787 sites participated at the Third Internet Festival of National Domain .UZ, which started on 29 April 2009. The nomination “The Best Corporate Site” was the largest in number of participants, collecting 114 contenders for Zolotaya Podkova. Discovery of festival became www.onatili.uz, the best website in state language - www.islom.uz, the best site on the result of voting - official website of the Ministry of Justice - www.minjust.uz. Other awards were conferred to: the best site of state body - www.aci.uz, the best mass media site - www.gazeta.uz, the best site in science and education - www.edunet.yz, the Best network services website - www.torg.uz, the best site of e-commerce - www.yarmarka.uz, the best youth site - www.afisha.uz, the best site in culture and art - www.artmuseum.uz, the best sports website - www.uff.uz, the best medical and healthcare site - www.edoctor.uz, the best site in tourism and travel - www.ticket.uz, the best personal site - www.aquatropic.uz and the Best regional history site - www.mytashkent.uz.