Winners 2010

CanTeen is a national support organisation for 12-24 year olds living with cancer. It provides services and programs to young people who have cancer, have a parent or sibling with cancer or have had a parent or sibling die from cancer.

The Now What initiative aims to provide a supportive and informative online community that young people can access to learn about different cancer types and ways to cope with their experience.

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is a name given to expert groups that handle computer security incidents. AusCERT was formed in 1993, is one of the oldest CERTs in the world and was the first CERT to operate in Australia as the national CERT, which it did from 2006 to 2010.

Through its initiative, AusCERT repatriates data stolen from malware infected computers and attempts to notify the affected parties in order to mitigate the harm.

The Aotearoa People's Network Kaharoa (APNK) provides free access to broadband Internet services in public libraries so that everyone can benefit from accessing, experiencing and creating digital content.

APNK provides modern computing equipment and broadband Internet access to 123 sites nationwide for everyone, even those on low incomes or in rural communities where Internet access can be problematic. APNK maintains a managed network of over 570 PCs and 100 WiFi hotspots at libraries and marae around New Zealand.

The NSW Community Technology Program was established in 2000 in NSW rural towns generally with a population of 3000 or less. The CTCs network now consists of 57 member organisations located in small towns and indigenous communities throughout regional NSW. CTCs are based on the belief that access to information technology resources and digital literacy education is crucial to the economies, environments, people and cultures of rural and regional communities.

CTCs are much more than just Internet enabled centres. They provide access to people in regional NSW regardless of computer ownership or broadband infrastructure to isolated homes, to any health, education, government, community and or emergency services program that is delivered online. They provide training, support and facilitation to people who do not have the information technology skills or are otherwise unable to access online resources unaided.

Originally formed in 1988, Terabyte pioneered the use of digital technologies in the print industry before spearheading the development of interactive media in New Zealand.

On 2 July 2010, the Lindauer Online Initiative was launched. This initiative is the result of a partnership between the Auckland Art Gallery and Terabyte to design and develop an interactive website depicting paintings of portrait artist Gottfried Lindauer.

The website brings to life a walking gallery experience showcasing Lindauer's Maori portraits with the ability to zoom into the detail of the canvas. Users can engage with the content from a 1918 visitor's book and trace their Maori heritage through Lindauer's works.

The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is a highly utilised, free online resource for Australasian legal information. Developed as a joint facility of the Faculties of Law at the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology in Sydney, AustLII provides free access to millions of separately retrievable documents, supporting over 1,000 simultaneous user searches.

The Deaf Society of New South Wales (DSNSW) is a non‐profit organisation delivering services to Deaf people who use Auslan (Australian Sign Language) as their first or preferred language and hard-of-hearing people.

Through their website: www.deafsocietynsw.org.au, DSNSW provides information that is visually accessible utilising Auslan and English content, visual representation and an intuitive user‐friendly layout. The website is edited by a literacy specialist to ensure content is clear and simple benefiting both Deaf users and those from non‐English speaking backgrounds.

Vicnet is a division of the State Library of Victoria that delivers programs, services and research to facilitate access to the Internet and information technology for all people.

Vicnet has identified the needs of the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) to be of particular concern, with seniors and new and emerging communities recognised as those most vulnerable to digital exclusion.

As a result of this organisation’s projects, 62 community language groups have direct online access to over six million information links in their own language.

Hector’s World Limited (HWL) is an educational initiative offering a positive start to life online for children aged two to nine. The Hector’s World website addresses the most common risks for this age group including: giving out too much personal information, accessing inappropriate material, becoming targets of hyper-commercialism, spam, or cyber bullying and spending excessive time online.

Hector’s World Limited has been acknowledged as best practice by government bodies around the world including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in the UK, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Ministry of Education in New Zealand.