[photopress:computeruser.jpg,full,alignright]A web-page designing contest in Shanghai targeted exclusively for the over-50 has attracted over 5,000 entries. Ma Haitao, executive vice secretary-general of the Shanghai Internet Services Association, a non-governmental organization said the contest is aimed at encouraging more and more senior citizens in Shanghai to learn more about the Internet.
Final sumbission date is November 25 followed by on-line voting and the results coming out five days later.
Finalists will receive free training on web page designing and the eldest participant will be awarded The Most Senior Participant’ honorary title.
Wang Zhiqiang, who is a relatively youthful sixty, said, ‘We elderly people should improve ourselves with the Internet to shorten the distance between us and the young people.’
The contest has won the support of local government authorities concerned including the Shanghai Municipal Informatization (is this a new word?) Commission.
This is a very, very substantanial market. There are 2.6 million people over 60 living in Shanghai and that percentage of the population will grow quite dramatically year on year as life expectancy goes up.
Source: Xinhua