Nominet Announces ths Shortlist of Entries for the Nominet Internet Awards 2014

Nominet, the company behind .UK extesion, announced the shortlist of entries for the Nominet Internet Awards 2014.

You can read the announcement after the jump :

“Nominet, the company best known for running the .uk internet infrastructure, today announces the shortlist of entries for the Nominet Internet Awards 2014.

The Nominet Internet Awards (NIA), now in their eighth year, celebrate the UK internet as a force for good and showcase the very best Britain has to offer online. After receiving many strong entries, a shortlist of 36 organisations and initiatives has been selected to contest the five categories, which include Innovative Internet Business, Online Skills and Training, Making the Internet a Safer Place, Doing Good Online and Digital Innovation in Public Services. Members of the public and businesses can show their support for the shortlisted projects and organisations by tweeting the hashtag #NIA2014 alongside the name of the project they hope to win in each category.

The annual awards are open to any organisation or individual who is doing great work online, whether it benefits their business, the wider economy, local communities or the UK’s internet users in general. This year’s entries include a project to help mums gets to grips with technology, a virtual hospital for dementia sufferers, a price comparison site for the energy market and an interactive school guide for parents.

A panel of experts, including Eben Upton, the Founder of Raspberry Pi and Chi Onwurah, MP & Shadow Cyber Security Minister, will select the winners, who will be announced at an awards ceremony on Thursday 3rd July at the London Film Museum, hosted by technology journalist Kate Russell.

This year has been a seminal year for the web. Among other milestones and achievements, we’ve celebrated the 25th anniversary of the academic paper by Tim Berners-Lee that served as the blueprint for the modern web, the UK’s digital business hub Tech City has hit its third birthday, and the number of British people aged 65 and over accessing the internet has risen by more than a quarter.

Eleanor Bradley, Chief Operating Officer at Nominet, says: “Every year it seems the internet becomes even more a part of our everyday lives, so it’s a great pleasure to see that the UK remains a source for so many fresh, ground-breaking online ideas. The efforts made by the shortlisted organisations to help make the internet a safer, more enjoyable or more productive place should be celebrated. We’re proud to recognise those who’ve helped make the internet a better place for us all, and hope their achievements inspire further innovation in the UK in the years ahead.”

A full list of shortlisted entries in each category can be found below.

Innovative Internet Business  

·         Childcare.co.uk – http://www.childcare.co.uk/

·         DataTables – http://datatables.net/

·         Isis Software Incubator – http://incubator.isis-innovation.com/

·         LawBite – http://www.lawbite.co.uk/

·         LiveDrive Internet – http://www.livedrive.com/

·         Open Energy Market – http://openenergymarket.com/

·         WriteLatex – Overleaf – http://www.writelatex.com/overleaf

·         Resolver – http://resolver.co.uk/

Online Skills and Training

·         #Techmums – http://techmums.co/

·         Achievers International – www.achieversinternational.org

·         BBC – www.bbc.co.uk/webwise

·         Digital Unite – http://digitalunite.com/

·         Ideas Tap – http://www.ideastap.com/

·         Learn My Way – http://www.learnmyway.com/

·         AbilityNet  – My Computer My Way –  http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/mcmw/

Making the Internet a Safer Place

·         OWASP – Cornucopia – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Cornucopia

·         eTreble9 – eCadets – http://www.etreble9.com//s

·         IWF International Reporting Solution – https://www.iwf.org.uk/partnerships/international-reporting-solution

·         Safer Internet Day 2014 – www.saferinternet.org.uk

·         The Anti-Social Network – http://youtu.be/x2B7p-g8dMo

·         Torbay Council, Devon and Cornwall Police and Hele’s Angels – Virtually S@fe – http://www.torbayvirtuallysafe.co.uk/

Doing Good Online

·         Acts 435 – http://acts435.org.uk/

·         Cancer Research UK – Citizen Science Programme – http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/play-to-cure-genes-in-space

http://www.cellslider.net/

·         Mind-Elefriends – http://elefriends.org.uk/

·         FaceDementia – http://www.facedementia.org/

·         Ovarian Cancer Action – http://ovarian.org.uk/

·         The Safeworld International Foundation (Safe World for Women) – http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/

·         Turn2us Benefits Calculator –  www.turn2us.org.uk

Digital Innovation in Public Services

·         Dementia-friendly Virtual Hospital – http://dementia.stir.ac.uk/design/virtual-environments/virtual-hospital

·         eRedbook – www.eredbook.org

·         Department for Transport in partnership with Northgate Public Services  – HGV Road User Levy –  https://www.gov.uk/hgv-levy

·         HMRC & Fujitsu – http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/

·         Informed Solutions – Web Based Consultation Portal for The Local Government Boundary Commission for England – http://www.lgbce.org.uk/

·         National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)  http://www.nestpensions.org.uk/

·         School Guide – http://www.schoolguide.co.uk/

·         Start2 creative wellbeing resource  – http://www.start2.co.uk/

Last year’s winners included; Brightside Online Mentoring, a charity that helps young people access the education and career opportunities through online mentoring, and Oii My Size, a website and campaign that was developed by a group of young women to raise awareness of the dangers of sexting and sharing online content.