Nominations for New Media Awards 2006

Select award: -------------- Contribution to civic society Modernising government Elected representative Innovation Community and information Accessibility Education Advocacy

UK Freedom of Information Act

The UK FOI blog is an important source of information for the FOI community - for practitioners, journalists, academics, and the public. Steve keeps the blog up-to-date and populated with information that is helpful to those involved in this subject, including links to media stories that include references to FOI. I have yet to find a better source of information, either in the UK or abroad. Sarah Holsen

Latest from the weblog

• It’s good to talk
  New devices that enable deaf people to have a greater level of participation in phone calls and meetings have been developed by UK organisations. One of the organisations Teletec, a Bedfordshire-based company, will launch two services to help those who are hard of hearing to use their own voices, by incorporating Internet devices and voice recognition [...]
• Palestinian conflict portrayed in game
  Conflict zones might not occur to you as the best starting point for creating a game but Global Conflict: Palestine is aimed at bringing to life some of the issues in the Middle East in a bid to educate people. Based in midst of the conflict in the Palestinian territories, the game depicts a young [...]
• Blog for Britain
  The National Trust are encouraging people to record a day in their lives on their website. Thousands of people in the UK are expected to participate in the project, which aims to create an online archive of people’s diaries in the country. The project is being called “Britain’s Biggest Blog” by the National Trust, and was [...]