New Media Awards 2008

New Media 2008 nominations

(rualnet|uk) Community Carbon Network

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://communitycarbon.net

The Community Carbon Network brings together communities who are working collectively to tackle climate change. making a difference is not easy and we want to help facilitate the work you are doing in your community. We can support everyone to have an enhanced online presence - networks, communities and individual activists.

Backlash-UK

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.backlash-uk.org.uk/

backlash was created in 2005 by the Libertarian Alliance, the Spanner Trust, the Sexual Freedom Coalition, Feminists against Censorship, Ofwatch and Unfettered to collate evidence for an informed debate on censorship and to fight plans to criminalise ownership of material the Home Office finds abhorrent.

It is committed to raising awareness about why the plans are wrong, won't work and about the inevitable unintended consequences if government plans go ahead.

BBC Your Game

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://bbc.co.uk/yourgame

Your Game is a partnership between the BBC and the Football Foundation which offers young people, aged 16 to 25, from under-served communities the chance to get involved in football, music and the media.

BlogStJohn

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.olib.co.uk/blogstjohn

BlogStJohn was set up in 2007 to provide a forum for discussion about volunteering with St John Ambulance and help use that debate to move the organisation forward.

Brockley Central

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.brockleycentral.blogspot.com

A community news and discussion blog which attempts to cover every aspect of life in Brockley, London SE4. Just a year old, it has quickly grown to reflect the vibrancy of local life and the regeneration that the area is undergoing as a result of the East London Line extension.

Catch21

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.catch21.co.uk

Catch21 is the UK's first internet television channel at Westminster. They provide really good quality reports, shows and interviews on Blip TV, You Tube and their own website.

Craigmillar Communiversity

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm

We wish to nominate The World Community Arts Day, 17 Feb each year. This celebration started on the Craigmillar Communiversity website in 2007.

Dad Info

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.dad.info

Dad Info is the first universally available information service for dads in the world.

The service consists of:

- www.dad.info - a brand new website for dads with information on pregnancy, birth, babies, kids, parenting issues and separation/divorce, all from a dad’s perspective.

- The “Dad Card”; a credit card sized info card, distributed FREE to the maternity services of the UK for midwives to hand out to the half a million expectant dads they meet each year – directing them to the site.

- Free emails based on their baby’s due date take new dads through the essentials of new fatherhood. Comments and live chats on the site form the basis of this new online community.

Dan Hardie

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://danhardie.wordpress.com/

Dan Hardie, commodities researcher and part-time soldier -- and the blogger who organised the "We can't turn them away" campaign to make special asylum arrangements for Iraqi civilians under threat for having worked with British forces.

derek wyatt mp

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.derekwyatt.co.uk

Explains cleanly and crisply my role as an MP in Westminster and my constituency. Completely redesigned it has set new records, over a million unique visitors p.a.and 100,000 pages accessed a week.. Updated daily, it has a blog, a diary, a virtual advice surgery, a quiz, a daily stop press section, live tv and video links and an anotated google map which automatically updates every time a local story is added. It also conforms to the 2003 Disability Act.
It links to my other site: www.derekwyatt.tv

derek wyatt mp

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://derekwyatt.tv

You need to experiment and play with a new site and this is what I have been doing for the past nine months with a six video screen option. They represent five tv or video links udner the titles: Parliament TV, Yes Minister, MPTV, Sittingbourne TV and Sheppey TV; the sixth screen is given over to an anotated google map showing my work in the comstituency (it links back to www.derekwyayt.co.uk). The video entries are seemlessly hosted on a variety of social networking sites including YouTube and google.

I think with the onset of IPTV that it is inevitable thta all public sector sites will have to move from largely text-based to a video solution(s).

This is a first attempt for me and the challenge in 2008/09 will be to merge it more completely with www.derekwyatt.co.uk.

Development Trust Association

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.dta.org.uk

Development Trusts Association
The DTA is a network of community practitioners. We help people set up development trusts, and we help existing trusts learn from each other and work effectively. We also influence government and others at national and local level, to build support and investment for our movement.
We are aiming for a successful development trust in every community. There are now over 400 development trusts in our membership, in both urban and rural areas.

DISCODAMAGED

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.discodamaged.com

DISCODAMAGED is the only website for London's gay men and women who like clubbing where

a) they hear the serious news the clubs don't let the gay press print. In particular Damaged was the website that got everybody talking abotu GHB and crystal by reporting when people died in clubs. That kick started a whole debate that eventually got the clubs organised against it.

b) allows its users to talk about gay life and clubbing in London uncensored. The other sites censor heavily as they rely on gay businesses.

They also support small groups and events that wouldn't get publicity elsewhere as they can't afford to take an ad that'll get them copy.

It's non-profit serious work is done in a humorous non-judgemental way and gay life in London would be worse for losing it.

Dr Syed Nayyer Abidi

Nominated in category.

http://www.chiefcic.com

ecancermedicalscience

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com

ecancermedicalscience is an open access, professional cancer journal which is completely free to publish, free to read and free to comment. The journal is thus accessible for anyone with computer access across the globe without the restrictions of membership fees, publication fees and open access only being offered after one year. All articles are available to access immediately with comment encouraged following reading through comment boxes, blogs, forum and letter to the editor. With Open Access publishing a reality and an urgent need for improved cancer communications, ecancermedicalscience fits the 21st century bill for a cancer journal. Thanks to online, multimedia technology and a community poised to podcast and blog - ecancermedicalscience offers a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to cancer. ecancermedicalscience offers an open access resource for clinicians, surgeons, nurses, students and the entire cancer community.

ecancermedicalscience

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.ecancermedicalscience.com

ecancermedicalscience is an open access, professional cancer journal which is completely free to publish, free to read and free to comment. The journal is thus accessible for anyone with computer access across the globe without the restrictions of membership fees, publication fees and open access only being offered after one year. All articles are available to access immediately with comment encouraged following reading through comment boxes, blogs, forum and letter to the editor. With Open Access publishing a reality and an urgent need for improved cancer communications, ecancermedicalscience fits the 21st century bill for a cancer journal. Thanks to online, multimedia technology and a community poised to podcast and blog - ecancermedicalscience offers a multimedia and multidisciplinary approach to cancer. ecancermedicalscience offers an open access resource for clinicians, surgeons, nurses, students and the entire cancer community.

Films for Learning

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.filmsforlearning.org

Films for Learning is a new initiative which has involved the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester working with Toolkit, a creative learning consultancy and NESTA, to develop a learning model for students and teachers. Over twenty secondary, middle and first schools have participated. Students have made films about areas of Science and Technology which teachers find difficult, tricky or dangerous to explain. The project has subsequently expanded to include more areas of the curriculum (e.g. Geography, Theology and Ethics) as well as teacher produced work. The films are disseminated through a website enabling students and teachers to share films

Foundation for Information Policy Research

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.fipr.org/

By far the most useful "alert" system on developments that might post a risk to a democrtically accountable infomraiton society.

hmrconline.com

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://hmrconline.com

I would like to nominate www.hmrconline.com

HMRC on Line, aka ‘HMRC is Sh-te ‘is dedicated to the taxpayers of Britain, and the employees of the HMRC, who have to endure the monumental shambles that is Her Majesty\'s Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC). This site is ‘a living monument to the incompetence and arrogance of Gordon Brown’, who set HMRC up. It seeks via satire and humour to expose HMRC\'s mismanagement and inefficiency, including its excruciatingly painful bungling of the Tax Credit “system” which wounds 2 million innocently-overpaid Tax Credit Casualties/HMRC mugging victims each year, and the loss by HMRC of 25 million data records similarly entrusted to its safekeeping. It seeks to humiliate those that run HMRC into improving its quality of ‘service’, a laudable aim given this Orwellian organisation’s complete lack of accountability and scruples.

HMRC Is Shite is run by Ken Frost, a well known, highly qualified chartered accountant who runs a number of sites dedicated to improving the quality of life in Britain and highlighting political ineptitude, inefficiency, mismanagement and urban decay.

Horsesmouth

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.horsesmouth.co.uk

horsesmouth connects people who want informal advice with people who want to give it through safe and secure ementoring platform

Informed Consent

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.informedconsent.co.uk

The Informed Consest group of websites provide information to the BDSM/fetish community and include chatrooms, memo sending, events listings, discussion forums, personal weblogs and personal ads for members. The owners provide the service free of charge.

The site's name was chosen to reflect the useful information we enable people to share, while emphasising the necessity of consent in all aspects of BDSM relationships.

Lasting Tribute

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk

This website allows everyone to share memories and celebrate the lives of those they knew, respected or loved: family, friends, neighbours or those in the public eye. It brings together all the notices that have been published online by our sister newspaper websites around the country – from the Northcliffe group - in one place making it easier for people to find them and add their own images and memories. New tributes can also be started online and people can also do things in the real world through the site such as plant a tree or send flowers.

Lynne Featherstone MP

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/blog.htm

An MP and Lib Dem spokesperson, formerly very active in community politics, memmber of all sorts of councils and assemblies

Lynne Featherstone MP

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org

Lynne is the Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green in London.

Media Lens

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.medialens.org/

Media Lens is a response based on the conviction that mainstream newspapers and broadcasters provide a profoundly distorted picture of our world. They are convinced that the increasingly centralised, corporate nature of the media means that it acts as a de facto propaganda system for corporate and other establishment interests. The costs incurred as a result of this propaganda, in terms of human suffering and environmental degradation, are incalculable.

Media With Conscience

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.mwcnews.net

Media With Conscience, is a political news magazine dedicated to human-rights and justice.

Nanny Knows Best

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.nannyknowsbest.com

Nanny Knows best is a site dedicated to exposing, and resisting, the all pervasive nanny state that is corroding the way of life and the freedom of the people of Britain. Established in 2004, Nanny Knows Best is now ranked 13th by MSN in their list of Top Blogs.

PARWICH.ORG

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://parwich.org

A lively and frequently updated community weblog, supporting the activities of a small village in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Patient Opinion

Nominated in category.

http://www.patientopinion.org.uk

Philip Virgo

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/when-IT-meets-politics/

Philip Virgo is Secretary General of EURIM, the Parliament/Industry body, set up in 1994, to promote IT policy in Government. Before that he was present at the birth of the Parliamentary IT Committee, 27 years ago. His blog, hosted by Computer Weekly was set up last year.

PinkNews.co.uk

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk

PinkNews.co.uk is a news website for and about the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community).

Richard Cowling

Nominated in category.

http://www.mesomoco.org.uk

Savvy Chavvy

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.savvychavvy.com

A community forum for young gypsy travellers, established in partnership with UnLtd and funded by Mediabox. Participants we trained in social media distribute content on the networking site, which now has more than 1000 members.

Combining social purpose and social life, Savvy Chavvy encourages members to see media as a democratic means of self-expression through which they can control how their community is perceived.

(Chavvy is the Romany word for child.)

Sokari Ekine

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.blacklooks.org

Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian LGBT and women's rights activist who has consistently been blogging and building up a strong community of people interested in learning about and taking action on African social justice issues. Her personal style and commitment to various causes all over Africa make her blog a real gem to read and she always has insights into African and diaspora politics that I can't find anywhere.

TakeLegalAdvice.com

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.takelegaladvice.com

TakeLegalAdvice.com is a free, secure and totally confidential service which not only searches for law firms to users' exact profile and case needs, but provides personalised law firm responses on how they would deal with the case, complete with estimated costs. Representing over 10,000 lawyers across the UK and covering all legal areas, users are able to run highly precise searches based on the location, income and asset level (in case of individuals) and company turnover, number of employees, (in case of businesses) and case details; receiving law firms within just 48 hours.

Tax Credit Casualties

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.taxcc.org

Tax Credit Casualties provide a life line to those who have, through no fault of their own, received overpayments of tax credits. Claimants in this position are routinely told that they can not appeal against this and must pay back the money immediately. Tax Credit Casualties provide advice and guidance to enable individuals to fight their own cases, support so that individuals do not feel alone and also campaign for a fairer system. They even act take on cases for those individuals who are unable to fight for themselves. All this is provided in their own time and is funded through their own pockets.

The Big Green Switch

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.biggreenswitch.co.uk

This is a consumer-facing website empowering people to make choices that help them live a greener life.
It offers independent information and advice for those who want to be more environmentally-friendly and encourages visitors to share their own ideas and experiences via community message boards, comment panels and blogs.
Its aim is to encourage people to learn about being green without feeling pressured or lectured. The site also includes tools and features such as a green products shop, environmental jobs search engine, carbon footprint calculator and a directory of other green websites, businesses and organisations.

Vote Match (Unlock Democracy)

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.votematch.co.uk

This is the first of a series of "Vote Matches" that Unlock Democracy plans to run in UK elections. Based on "Stemwijzer" developed by the Netherlands-based organisation IPP it works by asking users a series of statements which are then matched against the answers provided by the candidates. Users can give extra weight to the issues that matter most to them. It doesn't just give a result, it explains why.

WSPA

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://handlewithcare.tv/uk/

WSPA promotes animal welfare around the world, concentrating on the regions of the world where few, if any, measures exist to protect animals.