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Glückwünsch an den DASV für den Gewinn der "Kiddle Medal" 2023 der FEPA für "most innovative website"!

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THE KIDDLE MEDAL 2023 FOR THE MOST INNOVATIVE WEBSITE

Giancarlo Morolli reports:

“Dear Visitor, Thank you for choosing to visit our website. We wish to capitalise on this interest by asking you to help us reward the most innovative use of digital resources to support philately. After a successful experiment in 2021, the FEPA Board intends to award a FEPA Medal this year to an individual or society that has had an important impact in promoting the image of philately and/or the activity of philatelists by developing and maintaining up-to- date a website, a channel, a blog, an application, or another digital means of communication. As the matter is so broad, new, and fast-evolving, we need the most extensive support possible to identify the candidates.

YOU are invited to submit one nomination for this prestigious award between the 6th and 25th of March 2023 by filling in the entry fields in the form below.

The Medal is awarded in memory of Francis Kiddle, an aerospace scientist and a very fine and dedicated philatelist, who was deeply engaged in developing and valorising philatelic literature in all its facets, including the digital ones.”

This invitation, on our website and in our Newsletter, resulted in 69 nominations. Some were duplicates, and some others were inappropriate as they were proposing people and not digital entries. After the necessary sifting, the following 21 nominations were passed to a panel of advisers appointed by the FEPA Board with the request to grade them and submit a list of runners-up to the Board.

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The panel was composed of philatelists with competencies in philatelic literature as publishers, editors and jurors, and in information technology and digital resources: Gerald Heschl (Austria), Johann Vanderhaute (Belgium), Ari Muhonen (Finland), Vincent Lourdin (France), John Davies (UK), Luca Lavagnino (Italy), Peter Suhadolc (Slovenia), and Sergio Arruego Polo (Spain).

The reference criteria for evaluating the entries were: innovative use of digital resources, support to philately and important impact in promoting the image of philately and the activity of philatelists in any area of our hobby. They could be expanded to consider genuinely innovative entries, i.e., offering something completely new, either technically or in terms of content, capable of attracting a large audience or community, providing a large amount of information on its subject, either as a web page or as a pdf file for free use, showing a modern user interface, in terms of both technology and layout and offering ease of navigation, without too broad, cluttered or multi-level layers.

Panel members had a challenging job because they had to compare apples, grapes and oranges. However, they converged towards a narrow set of entries from which the Board chose the best one almost unanimously.

The Kiddle Medal 2023 has been awarded to the

DEUTSCHER ALTBRIEFSAMMLER-VEREIN e.V., Germany

This society was nominated twice in the 2021 edition of the Kiddle award, as the Forum and the Postal Treaties sections were considered of particular interest but did not make the final. This site offers valuable information for postal historians who are really into research and want to use original sources.

The following runners-up receive a Certificate:

– Arbeitsgemeinschaft Baltikum e.V., Germany: https://arge-baltikum.de/index2-en.shtml

– International Philatelic Promoters, UK: https://discord.gg/tGc9msceqq

– Marco Occhipinti, Italy: https://www.facebook.com/sfizidiposta and https://www.sfizidiposta.it/ – Federación Española de Sociedades Filatélicas (FESOFI), Spain: https://www.fesofi.es.