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PACT WEBSITE WINS PRESTIGOUS INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIVE MEDIA AWARD

Washington DC (May 29, 2008) -- BrowserMedia, an interactive website development agency, was awarded a silver medal for its website design for Pact in the public service/nonprofit category. The Horizon Interactive Awards competition, which takes place in the spring of each year, is a prestigious international competition that recognizes the best websites, cd-roms, dvds, videos, webcasts, and kiosks from more than 20 countries worldwide.

The 2008 Horizon Interactive Awards judging panel consisted of industry professionals from various multimedia, graphic design, and marketing backgrounds. Over 1,000 entries were reviewed by the Horizon Interactive Awards board, an end-user panel, and an international panel of judges. Horizon Interactive Awards judges choose the winning entries based on solution creativity and originality, overall graphic design/appearance/user experience, communication of message, technical merit, and effectiveness of solution.

"The 2008 competition was the most competitive to date. The work in this year's competition is at such a high level that the judges really had their work cut out for them," said Mike Sauce, founder of the Horizon Interactive Awards. "All of the winning entries displayed a high level of sophistication, aesthetic creativity, technical excellence and clear purpose."

About the Horizon Interactive Awards
In its 7th year, the Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Since 2001 the competition has received thousands of entries from countries around the world and nearly all 50 U.S. states. Each year entries are judged on the basis of their excellence and recognition by an international panel of judges. The judging process involves a Horizon Interactive Awards advisory panel, end user panel and a worldwide panel of industry professionals. Winning entries are dubbed the "best of the best" in the interactive media industry. For more information, visit www.horizoninteractiveawards.com.

About Pact
Pact, an international development nonprofit organization, seeks to build empowered communities, effective governments, and responsible private institutions that support opportunities for people to have a better life. Pact does this by strengthening the capacity of organizations and institutions to be good service providers, represent their stakeholders, network with others, and advocate for social, economic and environmental justice. Currently Pact implements more than 100 projects in 62 countries through its 24 field offices and headquarters in Washington, D.C. A substantial portion of Pact’s program portfolio is focused on developing community responses to address HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment and democracy and governance activities.