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ICELE's International Awards: Winners Announced
At this week's International e-Participation Symposium a special awards ceremony was held and the winners and finalists of ICELE's International Awards were announced.
The award winners and finalists are listed below:
ePolitician- making a difference on the ground
This award was given to Senator Axel Gedaschko who has demonstrated how, by engaging online, he has made a difference to his electorate, and how online engagement has improved local people's lives.
Senator Axel Gedaschko has initiated the use of the Demos approach, developed by TuTech, to discuss urban development issues online.
Winner
- Senator Axel Gedaschko (State Minister, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Urban Development and Environment, Hamburg, Germany)
Finalists
- Councillor Adrian Knapper (Stoke-on-Trent City Council, UK, Labour & Co-operative Party)
- Councillor Paul Rogan (Calderdale MBC, UK, English Democrats Party)
Organisational eParticipation - touching communities
This eminent award was given to Croydon Volutary Action UK who has shown how, through engaging online, it has made a real difference to the communities it serves, from a change in services, to a change in policy, to the delivery of a new service.
Talk to Croydon encompases a range of mechanism used to engage young people - such as polls, surveys, discussion forums and more. It was developed using an opensource tool which reduces development costs with no ongoing licence fees.
Winner
Finalists
- Issy Media, France
- Northumberland County Council UK
- Swindon Borough Council UK (Democratic Service Team)
- Norfolk Blurb, Norfolk County Council UK
- Easy Connects UK
Ministerial Award
This was awarded to http://www.screenreader.net/
Screen reader provides free software to blind and visually impaired people to help them use the internet.
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