New Media Awards 2008

New Media 2008 nominations

(CCEA | Multimedia) www.ccea.org.uk

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.ccea.org.uk/

The ccea.org.uk family of sites brings together 3 areas of curriculum, examinations and assessment by collating a diverse range of supporting materials in one easy to navigate website.

Created by CCEA | Multimedia, the learning resources production department of CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment). We have a highly skilled team delivering innovative learning resources that are engaging and provide a critical response to challenges across many areas of the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum.

(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.

Anti-Apathy

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.thenag.net

TheNag.net is world saving made simple, a nudge in the right direction. The cheeky site helps its members do 1 thing a month to make their lifestyles, and the world, more sustainable.

Anti-Apathy

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.thenag.net

TheNag.net is world saving made simple, a nudge in the right direction. The cheeky site helps its members do 1 thing a month to make their lifestyles, and the world, more sustainable.

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 RADIO 4'S YOU & YOURS PROGRAMME.

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/careintheuk/index.shtml

You and Yours is BBC Radio 4's award winning Consumer programme. It is broadcast every weekday between 12 o'clock and 1, attracting 3 million listeners a week. Online, thousands of people access additional information about the stories covered, download podcasts, access Transcripts, email the programme, and use the 'Listen Again' facility.

BBC RADIO 4'S YOU & YOURS PROGRAMME.

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/careintheuk/index.shtml

You and Yours is BBC Radio 4's award winning Consumer programme. It is broadcast every weekday between 12 o'clock and 1, attracting 3 million listeners a week. Online, thousands of people access additional information about the stories covered, download podcasts, access Transcripts, email the programme, and use the 'Listen Again' facility.

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.

Bhojpuria.com

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.bhojpuria.com

Bhojpuria.com is the World's first portal for Bhojpuri speaking people. The site have won several awards in the past as well.

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.

CCEA | Multimedia

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.ecoworld.org.uk/

CCEA | Multimedia is the learning resources production department of CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment), a unique body in the UK bringing together the three areas of Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment.

At CCEA | Multimedia we have a highly skilled team delivering innovative learning resources that are engaging and provides a critical response to challenges across many areas of the revised Northern Ireland Curriculum.

Cllr Sue Luxton + Ute Michel, Green Party

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://greenladywell.blogspot.com/

Green Ladywell is the official Green Party blog for Ladywell, South East London. It is run by two local Green Party councillors - Sue Luxton and Ute Michel.

Councillor Jonathan Bishop

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.jonathanbishop.org.uk/

Jonathan Bishop has a passionate interest in multimedia business and e-commerce, and a passionate commitment to social justice. He has a BSc in Multimedia Studies, an MSc in E-Learning and a Law Masters (LLM) in European Union Law. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Business Administration at Kingston University.

Having overcome serious medical problems Jonathan is determined that every voice should be heard and that society’s resources should be available to everybody. To this end he has set up www.jonathanbishop.org.uk. He has recently been elected as a local councillor.

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.

crowdSPRING

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.crowdspring.com

crowdSPRING is a little company with big dreams. Founded by Ross Kimbarovsky and Mike Samson, crowdSPRING was started to help people from around the world access creative talent, and to help creatives from across the globe find new customers.

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.

do-it.org.uk

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.do-it.org.uk

do-it.org.uk is the first and only UK-wide volunteering database. Created and managed by YouthNet and launched by the Prime Minister in 2000, do-it.org.uk uses new media technology to connect people, communities and organisations and inspire positive change.

Today, do-it.org.uk holds almost one million volunteering opportunities. Website visitors simply enter their postcode and their area of interest, find an opportunity that excites them and then apply online.

Dr Caroline Lucas MEP

Nominated in Democracy in action category.

http://www.carolinelucasmep.org.uk

Dr Caroline Lucas is the Green MEP for South East England. Elected in 1999, she sits on the European Parliament's Environment, Trade and Climate Change Committees, and is Vice President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup.

Caroline is a long-time campaigner and media spokesperson on some of the most crucial issues of our time; climate change, energy, transport, food security, global trade, human rights and animal protection. Through her extensive work as an MEP, Caroline has been able to ensure that the Green voice is heard at the very highest levels of policy making.

Dr Syed Nayyer Abidi

Nominated in category.

http://www.chiefcic.com

Dr Syed Nayyer Abidi is a senior health professional, working as the founder director of a registered Community-Interest Company called CHIEF - Community Health Involvement & Empowerment Forum. He is also known as a social entrepreneur, a healthcare writer, a bilingual author, and a well-known public health campaigner in the United Kingdom. He also leads M.E.H.A Group of Health Promoters that has recently been highly recommended for Queen`s Award for Voluntary Service - 2008.

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.

Free Our Bills, by mySociety

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/freeourbills/

mySociety's "Free our Bills" campaign is an effort to persuade Parliament that Bills should be published in a format that allows the public to make use of them in novel, innovative and useful ways. The way Bills are currently made available is completely incompatible with the Internet era and provides no possibility of doing all the things that "Web 2.0" consumers are getting used to doing.

Futurelab's Power League

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.powerleague.org.uk

Futurelab is a not-for-profit organisation that pioneers ways of using new technology to transform the way people learn (www.futurelab.org.uk). In April 2008, Futurelab launched Power League (www.powerleague.org.uk), a free online resource for schools which supports pupils of all ages to explore, debate and discuss any topic in a fun and easy way – by creating leagues, visual representations, of students’ opinions on the chosen topic.

Gaia online

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.gaiaonline.com

It's an online community where hundreds of thousands of people have come together and found a great place! It has so many activities. Games, forums, you name it.
Plus, a cool creatable avatar!

Green Thing

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.dothegreenthing.com

Green Thing is a not-for-profit online community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be green. It’s the first initiative to combine marketing psychology, world-class creativity and the self-fuelling energy of social networks to mobilise the masses
against climate change by making it effortless and fun. Every month you get a different Green Thing to do. All you have to do is do it.

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.

jaxtr

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.jaxtr.com

Jaxtr links your phone to the Web, so you can hear from callers worldwide while keeping your phone number private and call people anywhere in the world directly from your mobile without paying expensive international rates. More than 10 million people in 220 countries use jaxtr. Jaxtr works with any phone, mobile or landline. And no download is required - even if calls are initiated from a mobile phone.

Kew Gardens

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.kew.org/trees

www.kew.org/trees is the new website for the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens in London. The Xstrata Treetop Walkway is a stunning new attraction sixty feet off the ground that invites visitors to get closer to trees and learn more about them. It is reached via The Rhizotron, a tunnel in the ground that allows visitors to experience the lively underground life of trees before heading high into the tree canopy. The Xstrata Treetop Walkway’s interactive experience is a cross - platform solution designed to delight families and general visitors and attract new young audiences to Kew.

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.

Littleloud

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/C/city-of-vice/game/index.html

Brighton-based new media pioneers, Littleloud, produce web animation, motion graphics and online interactive experiences and are a fantastic asset to the British digital media scene.

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 Standards Trust

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.journalisted.com/

Journalisted.com helps you answer the question: 'How do I know this
journalist knows what they're talking about?' The site provides a page
about every journalist published on any UK national newspaper website, the
BBC or Sky - with the articles they have written (updated real time),
summary information about what they write about, and links to biographical
information. It even lets you 'build your own newspaper' of your favourite
journalists.

Media Standards Trust

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.journalisted.com/

Journalisted.com helps you answer the question: 'How do I know this
journalist knows what they're talking about?' The site provides a page
about every journalist published on any UK national newspaper website, the
BBC or Sky - with the articles they have written (updated real time),
summary information about what they write about, and links to biographical
information. It even lets you 'build your own newspaper' of your favourite
journalists.

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.

Mind Candy

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

www.moshimonsters.com

Fab free website aimed at children aged 7 - 12, growns will love it too. The Monsters are soooo cute!

Moshi Monsters

Nominated in Inform and educate category.

http://www.moshimonsters.com

Moshi Monsters brings a virtual world of adoptable pet monsters to life. Far from being just an online game, Moshi has been developed with education at the forefront. The Monsters ask their owners to play a daily puzzle game with them, in order to earn Rox, the in game currency. The puzzles are made up of numeracy, literacy and other skills, that adapt and get harder or easier, depending on how the user performs.

mySociety - TheyWorkForYou.com

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/

TheyWorkForYou.com now has video of the House of Commons from the BBC alongside the text of Hansard from Parliament. Internet users help out by matching up speeches with the right video clips, which are then available for anyone to watch alongside the text of Hansard.

mysociety.org

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.groupsnearyou.com

GroupsNearYou.com is an entirely user generated API-queryable database of the location and nature of local online communities, irrespective of the platform they are hosted on. A piece of the programmable web, in short, with local community building focus. It is run by mySociety

mySociety is a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. GroupsNearYou.com was almost entirely built by a volunteers.

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.

National Rail Enquiries

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Online Journey Planner is National Rail Enquiries’ innovative and impartial Internet based information service for rail passengers across Britain, providing train running and ticket price information direct to the public.

Launched in March 2003 and receiving over 300,000 visitors a day the site is the only one to incorporate a real time journey planner, is the number one website relating to the transport industry and a Government designated ‘Top 5 SuperSite’.

net-guide

Nominated in category.

http://www.net-guide.co.uk

Since being launched in 2004, net-guide has been helping thousands of users to find the information that they need in a way that is accessible to them. In 2007 alone, more than 70,000 people used net-guide more than 250,000 times to search the web.

Nick Morgan

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://www.tax-hell.co.uk

Nick Morgan, journalist, and all round hero of the people. A modern day Robin Hood, he took on the tax man and won!

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

Patient Opinion has grown from start up (Jan 05) into an organisation that is 100% supported by subscriptions from NHS and other organisations. There are now over 100 organisations participating in Patient Opinion and over the next few months we will begin accetping postings about mental health trusts, ambulance trusts, and directly provided PCT services (District Nurses etc) across England.

Patient Opinion is also exploring how patient feedback can be used by a wide range of groups including over 30 national patient organisations, a small groups of MPs, Scrutiny Commitees and emerging LINks organisations.

We believe Patient Opinion's on-going commitment to learning how best to use the new tools fo the web to further local engagement and discussion around health is unique and likley to yield significant results and some deep insights into how best to use these new techniques to expand civil society.

Patient Opinion's innovative track record has been the main topic discussed in articles in both the Guardian and the Economist.

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

Richard is the very defintion of the word 'Entrepreneur' and of the word 'altruistic'; he is founding and building MESOMOCO CIC an amazing idea to help mental distress sufferers with the employment dilemma they all too often face, and is committed to using his creative and technical skills to fighting stigma ... he is a social activist with a business mind. He is led by his conscience and not his ego. He is passionate and driven by his experiences in mental health.

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.)

School of Everything

Nominated in category.

http://www.schoolofeverything.com

Great teaching is all about inspiring someone and for that, there's nothing quite like face-to-face communication. School of Everything is all about facilitating this kind of offline interaction using online tools to draw on the long tail of teaching talent that exists out there.

But School of Everything isn't just about connecting people, it's also about changing the way we learn and how we think about education. Traditionally, education has been a top-down affair. Teachers talk; pupils listen, whilst the system decides what it is they should know, how they should prove they know it and what they will get out of knowing it. School of Everything turns this on its head: everyone has something to teach - whether you're a professional tutor, a committed hobbyist or simply someone with something interesting to share. Learning is all about pursuing what you're passionate about, meeting new people and having fun - it's an end in itself, not just a means to an end.

The team has just secured their first round of investment and they're working away building a strong community of users, with support from the likes of the Young Foundation and Channel 4 Education.

School of Everything

Nominated in category.

http://www.schoolofeverything.com

Great teaching is all about inspiring someone and for that, there's nothing quite like face-to-face communication. School of Everything is all about facilitating this kind of offline interaction using online tools to draw on the long tail of teaching talent that exists out there.

But School of Everything isn't just about connecting people, it's also about changing the way we learn and how we think about education. Traditionally, education has been a top-down affair. Teachers talk; pupils listen, whilst the system decides what it is they should know, how they should prove they know it and what they will get out of knowing it. School of Everything turns this on its head: everyone has something to teach - whether you're a professional tutor, a committed hobbyist or simply someone with something interesting to share. Learning is all about pursuing what you're passionate about, meeting new people and having fun - it's an end in itself, not just a means to an end.

The team has just secured their first round of investment and they're working away building a strong community of users, with support from the likes of the Young Foundation and Channel 4 Education.

Simon Berry

Nominated in Campaign for change category.

http://http://beamends.typepad.com/simons_blog/2008/05/using-coca-cola.html

Simon Berry has a had a career of two halves. The first half he spent working for the UK Government's Overseas Aid Programme in Latin America and Africa and the second half has been spent working in rural development in the UK. He is founder and CEO of ruralnet|uk and RNUK Ltd.

Social Innovation Camp

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.sicamp.org/

In London between 4th-6th April 2008, the Social Innovation Camp brought together some of the best of the UK and Europe’s web developers and designers with people at the sharp end of social problems.

The aim was to find ways that easy-to-build web 2.0 tools could be used to develop solutions to social challenges.

Social Innovation Camp

Nominated in Innovation category.

http://www.sicamp.org

Social Innovation Camp is a project incubation event that promotes the use of social technology for social good. It brought together hackers and social innovators for a hectic weekend in the Young Foundation to develop technologies and business proposals that just might change the world. Nearly 100 ideas were submitted, of which six were incubated and then 2 winners chosen. The projects were all great though. And it was a lot of fun too!

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.

South Asian Development Partnership

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.southasian.org.uk/

The South Asian Development Partnership stimulates awareness and creative responses to social issues in the Asian community. It organized a series of highly regarded conferences in response to the 7/7 bombings that brought together representatives from across society. It has produced discussion resources about issues within the Asian community, such as arranged marriage and highlighted the need for South Asian organ donors. It also raises funds for local partners in South Asia for emergency.relief.

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 casaulties

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.littlepurpleewok@blueyonder.co.uk

an organisation helping people stuck in the vortex of the tax credits nightmare.

Tax Credit Casualties

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.taxcc.org/index.html

I nominate Tax Credit Casualties, a website to help those caught up in the tangled mess of the Government Tax Credit System.

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.

Tax Credit Casulaties

Nominated in Community activism category.

http://www.taxcc.org.uk

The organisation was set up by people who had been affected by the poorly executed Tax Credit system. They have helped thousands of people in their fight, campaigned on behalf of us all and offered friendship and support.

Tax Credits Casualties