CYBER NEWS

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES (Indianapolis, NAMIC) has announced the winners of its Best Insurance Site Awards. Piquo, OH-based BUCKEYE INSURANCE GROUP, BROTHERHOOD MUTUAL INSURANCE (Fort Wayne, IN,) and COUNTRY COMPANIES (Bloomington, IL) won the small, mid-sized and large company categories, respectively.

The deliverable stage of ebXML, an international initiative to facilitate open trade enabling XML to be used consistently to exchange electronic business data, has been announced by the UN/CEFACT-a UN body covering policy and technical development of trade and e-business-andBoston-based OASIS, a consortium promoting open standards.

SILVERSTREAM SOFTWARE INC. (Billerica, MA), an e-business platform company, has joined as an associate member of WISe (London), a global standards organization for the insurance industry.