Congratulations to all of the 2006 winners....
Judges' Choice for Best Value
Pt England School for The Global Village
This is an innovative project enabling the voice of Decile 1a children in Auckland to be heard around the world. Through a weekly podcast – Korero Pt England – students from Pt England School have become enthusiastic readers and writers and discovered that people across the globe are interested in what they have to say – so much so that in the last months of 2005, KPE was listed in iTunes USA in the group of top podcasts.
CIO of the Year
- sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Mike Paine, New Zealand Qualifications Authority
Mike is Chief Information Officer of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority where he has been for the past 3 and 1/2 years. During this time, he has overseen the ICT-related aspects of the implementation of NCEA, and a strategic move to web-based services for the Authority. His focus has been on building ICT capability and credibility under intense political and stakeholder scrutiny.
Excellence in the Use of IT for Customer Service
- sponsored by Icon Recruitment
MetService for the Weather Information Service Engine (WISE)
To meet customer demand for customisation, timeliness and convenience, MetService has developed the Weather Information Service Engine (WISE).The engine uses databases, modular code and templates to support development, deployment and maintenance of web-based information solutions. The same engine and management tools have been used to build and maintain MetService's public website and its commercial domestic and international B2B sites.
Excellence in the Use of IT in a Community Project
Talk Business for Project Lancelot
This project pushes the boundaries of what is commonly accepted as possible; using technology to provide ‘virtual mobility’ for people suffering severe physical disabilities. Project Lancelot achieved an ambitious scenario: voice activating a house for someone completely paralysed. It includes hands-free e-mail, web browsing, videoconferencing, telephone, lights, doors and heaters... all from one wireless headset microphone. Project Lancelot is a remarkable story revolving around Lance Rive, a man completely paralysed in a car accident 12 years ago.
Excellence in the Use of IT in Education: Primary & Secondary
- sponsored by Tandberg
Samuel Marsden Collegiate School for Handhelds in the Classroom
This project at Marsden evolved in response to teachers' expressed need for increased access to the internet and intranet to support student learning. The explosion of ICT integration into the curriculum was such that even having four computers in each classroom and three fully functioning labs, supplemented by pods of computers in the library and senior school, could not meet the demands of 730 students from Pre-School to Year 13.
Excellence in the Use of IT in Education: Tertiary & Commercial:
Airways Corporation of New Zealand: Total Control Project
Total Control is a powerful, flexible and cost effective training solution that combines immersive, photo realistic simulation technology and modular applications and emulations to reproduce the real world of both aerodrome and radar air traffic control environments. Total Control has the capacity to realistically simulate a whole range of scenarios from low to high traffic volumes, different runway, airport and tower configurations, equipment failures and varying weather conditions.
Excellence in the Use of IT in Government:
- sponsored by Unisys
eLGAR: Libraries for a Greater Auckland Region for the Smarter Systems Project
eLGAR is made up of the libraries of Auckland City, Manukau City, North Shore City, Rodney District and Waitakere City. Its Smarter Systems project was a joint initiative to install a single shared Library Management System across the five consortium members. To date it is the largest and most complex collaborative IT project undertaken by local government in the Auckland region, and in the wider library sector nationally.
Excellence in the Use of IT in Health:
- sponsored by Orion Health
New Zealand TelePaediatric Service for H2H - Hospital to Home
The New Zealand TelePaediatric Service has developed a real-time video conferencing solution to assist in the delivery of palliative care to patients in remote rural locations. They have developed a dedicated videoconferencing solution which connects the child and family directly from their home to the palliative care team in their base hospital. Using an IP based system, NZTPS have installed a desktop video conferencing systems that operates over a secure broadband network.
Excellence in Mobile & Wireless Solutions:
- sponsored by Konica Minolta
Auckland Regional Council for BioMap
The Biosecurity field officers use the Biomap application to capture information about the size, location (using a GPS) and characteristics of a plant pest whilst out of the office. The information is held in the officer's PDA and remotely synchronised with a central database at the main office. This provides all Biosecurity staff with a complete picture of the nature of the infestation in the Auckland Region, as well as monitoring the effectiveness of the methods used to control infestations, using the ARC's Intranet Mapping Service.
Excellence in the Use of IT in a Not-for-Profit Organisation:
- sponsored by Westpac
St John for the National Event Management System
NEMS is the internet-based National Events Management System created and used by St John to record information about every event that St John attends throughout New Zealand. NEMS connects over 500 users nationwide to a database of over 22,000 events, and the system captures everything from customer preferences, to event requirements, to specific details of patients treated.
Excellence in the Use of IT in Small to Medium Enterprise:
John Robertson & Associates for Survey-online.com
Offered as a client administered or JRA-supported service, Survey-online.com enables organisations to quickly and cost-effectively survey stakeholder perceptions (employees, customers, others) and analyse these in real-time using a suite of powerful online reports. Survey-online.com has transformed JRA from a generalist HR consulting company to an organisation offering a world-class niche service to hundreds of organisations in New Zealand and, increasingly, overseas.
Most Successful Project Implementation of the Year:
- sponsored by Wigley & Company
eLGAR: Libraries for a Greater Auckland Region for the Smarter Systems Project
Refer to Customer Service listing.
Innovative Use of Technology:
- sponsored by Gen-i
Airways Corporation of New Zealand for the Total Control Project
Refer to Education: Tertiary & Commercial listing.
Overall Excellence in the Use of IT:
- sponsored by IBM
Airways Corporation of New Zealand for the Total Control Project
Refer to Education: Tertiary & Commercial listing.