So, do you think you have done enough on the Net and for the Net to deserve a Golden Mouse? Starting this year a Golden Mouse award is being instituted for web awards like the Oscars. For the best promoter of the medium, the best website, best portal and so on so forth.

The award is being instituted by Bangalore-based media2india.net, which is also the joint organiser of the coming Indian Internet World - touted as Asia’s largest Internet exhibition - starting in Delhi on September 27. The awards will be announced and given away during the fair.

The contenders for this year’s "Web Evangelist of the Year" award - for doing, the most for the medium - R. Ramraj of Satyam, Rajesh T. S. Reddy of Unimobile, Ajit Balakrishnan of Rediff and Amitabh Kumar of VSNL. This is the shortlist from which the eventual winner will be chosen. The organisers say they received 27 nominations for this award.

The 13-member jury that will pick the winners includes former Apple CEO John Sculley, charmed.com CEO Alex Lightman, Adam Boettiger of Internet Advertising.org, Lai Kok Fung (of Buzzcity.com) and Nasscom chief Dewang Mehta.

Apart from the web evangelist the other awards are best websites of the year in five categories- sports/leisure, travel, news, finance and B2B. There’s also an award for the best newcomer of the year, most creative banner campaign, best sponsorship and the best portal of the year. And what do the winners get? A trophy with a golden mouse on it!

The shortlisted dotcoms for some of these categories are rediff.com, indya.com, indiainfo.com, contests2win.com, traveljini.com, travelanza.com, clickcricket.com, khel.com, jaldi.com, musicurry.com, homeindia.com, indiacar.com, sharekhan.com, indiabulls.com, brandquiver.com and indiainfoline.com amongst others.

The organisers say they received over 1,000 nominations in all for all the awards. Says Pankaj Sethi, CEO of media2india.com, "We have short-listed a couple of them in each category for the convenience of our judges." The shortlist was reportedly done for the organisers by Ernst and Young, a management consultancy firm.