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Category descriptions
1. Best development project award
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Work to bring the benefits of the Internet to developing countries
- Enabling Internet access in rural or disadvantaged regions
- Reducing the cost of access, providing hardware or connectivity
- Bringing socially excluded groups online
- Educational initiatives aimed at demystifying the Internet for users of all ages
- Introducing new users to the benefits of the Internet
- Promoting interoperability or adaptability to give access for all
2. Best security initiative award
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Online authentication and identification
- Reducing security threats, such as spam and viruses
- Enhancing the security of networks
- Creating innovative or collaborative responses to security threats
- Protecting the integrity of users’ privacy
- Protecting Internet users against identity theft
3. Raising industry standards award
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Promoting or complying with high standards of ethics in business, for example through voluntary codes of practice
- Delivering an exceptional standard of customer service to your online customers
- Promoting Corporate Social Responsibility within the Internet industry
- Taking a leading role in developing consumer confidence in the Internet
4. Personal safety online award
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Educating vulnerable Internet users about online personal safety
- Protecting vulnerable communities, such as children, from online exploitation
- Educating users about keeping their networks/ computers safe and avoiding online fraud or nuisance
5. Internet for all
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Providing tools that assist in the translation of web content into other languages.Pioneering methods to include those challenged by lack of literacy in English or by disability, for example audiovisual communication
- Assisting expressions of culture and identity through multilingual or local language content
- Promoting or serving diversity of cultures within the UK or internationally
- Delivering multilingual content to serve relevant communities
- Developing or marketing software or content in languages other than English
6. Open Internet award
You should consider entering in this category if your organisation is involved in:
- Innovative methods of enabling Internet users to benefit from increased access to online materials knowledge or information
- Bringing citizens closer to parliamentarians or government
- Offering public services online
- Expressions of culture online for example using the Internet to share cultural artefacts
Follow this link for the Best Practice Challenge 2009 entry form.
Related contacts
For queries relating to the Nominet Internet Awards: email: internetawards@nominet.org.uk
Reception/SwitchboardTelephone: 01865 332211
Reception/SwitchboardTelephone: 01865 332211