CI-Net short listed for Nominet Award
CI-Net is pleased to announce that it has been selected to join the short list for the Nominet Best Practice Challenge Award in the Best Development Project category.
The competition recognises British organisations, groups or individuals who have embraced the challenge of making the Internet a secure, open, accessible or diverse experience for all. CI-Net is one of only 30 organisations including Symantec, Barclays, and the British Computer Association of the Blind to make the shortlist in 2008.
The CI-Net project selected by Nominet’s 12 strong panel of independent judges, chaired by Rt Hon Alun Michael MP, and including representatives from the Confederation of British Industry, the British Computer Society, the Royal National Institute for the Blind and the Press Association, is an initiative for Solihull Community Housing. This innovative project aims to bridge the ‘digital divide’ by delivering free or subsidized broadband to residents in council owned multi-storey housing blocks using CI-Net’s RedKite wireless ‘Leased Line in the Sky’ technology and distributing Internet connectivity to individual flats via electric plug sockets. It will also create a wireless hotspot area that Solihull Metropolitan Council can use to help attract local businesses to a part of North Solihull designated a deprived area
The winners will be announced at an award ceremony in London on 9th July 2008. These outstanding entries will be promoted as examples of best practice to industry, government, academia and in the media in the UK and internationally. They will also be invited to take a leading role in the UK preparatory meeting for the next Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meeting in Hyderabad and be showcased at the IGF on 3rd to 6th December as examples of the best of British in the Internet world.
