{"id":2574,"date":"2013-08-07T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2018-06-06T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T10:13:59","slug":"shortlist-announced-for-next-generation-digital-challenge-awards-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Shortlist Announced for Next Generation Digital Challenge Awards 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record number of entries reflects growth as the UK economy becomes increasingly digitalised<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted finalists for the UK\u2019s 2013 Next Generation Digital Challenge awards have been announced today. The awards showcase the best in next generation digital access infrastructure innovation and run alongside the annual NextGen Conference &#8211; the UK&#8217;s leading event for Next Generation broadband activity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This year there has been a record number of entries underlining recent research reports suggesting the UK economy has far more digital enterprises (and jobs) than previously reported in government data. The 2013 awards includes three new categories for enterprises and projects in digital skills, digital innovation and open data, to reflect the growing utilisation of infrastructure investment in urban, rural and mobile connectivity. <\/p>\n<p>All finalists are now invited to prepare a case study summary submission to the independent judging panel. The judging panel will review every entry and apply a standard marking scheme that assesses the complexity of the challenge, the extent of innovation and the evidence of achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Next Generation Digital Challenge Awards process started in February with an open call for nominations.  The finalist\u2019s case studies will be presented in a special session at NextGen13 prior to the conference dinner and awards ceremony on October 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Two key sponsors for the 2013 awards are the Knowledge Transfer Network for ICT and Go ON UK. The former facilitates the UK\u2019s innovation communities to connect, collaborate and find out about new opportunities in key research and technology sectors. The latter is an organisation aiming to make the UK the world\u2019s most digitally skilled nation.  <\/p>\n<p>NG Events Director, Marit Hendriks, said, \u201cWe are delighted with the surge in response this year, underlining the themes we mapped out in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupe-intellex.com\/services\/28-business-development\/390-economic-revitalisation-a-nextgen-perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> on Economic Revitalisation and our input in June to the Intelligent Community Forum\u2019s annual summit in New York.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The award entries and a full shortlist of successful entries is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgenevents.co.uk\/awards\/shortlist-2013\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shortlisted Finalists<br \/>\nNext Generation Digital Challenge Awards 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Innovation Category &#8211; Sponsored by ICT KTN <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Digitonic<\/strong> &#8211; a mobile marketing agency<br \/>\n<strong>Keypoint Technologies<\/strong> &#8211; making text input easier for users<br \/>\n<strong>PocketApp<\/strong> &#8211; personal medical diagnostics and health guide<br \/>\n<strong>Polkadot Factory<\/strong>&#8211; Trigah Project &#8211; boosting cinema going by more accurate distribution to audiences<br \/>\n<strong>Seetok Ltd<\/strong> &#8211; a video messaging product to humanise communiication<br \/>\n<strong>Mobbra<\/strong> &#8211; improving massive use of mobiles at sporting and other major events <\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital Skills Category &#8211; sponsored by Go ON UK<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ConnectMK<\/strong> &#8211; low-cost computer loan scheme re-utilising old ICT kit from large employers<br \/>\n<strong>Digital Housing Hub<\/strong> &#8211; bringing social housing and digital inclusion projects together<br \/>\n<strong>Glasgow Housing Association<\/strong> &#8211; improving the digital skills of social housing tenants<br \/>\n<strong>Intergenerational Project<\/strong> &#8211; library-based ICT courses for over-50&#8217;s run by young people<br \/>\n<strong>Social Media Surgeries<\/strong> &#8211; sharing digital skills in an informal setting<br \/>\n<strong>Skills@Work<\/strong> &#8211; mobile based learning for business compliance requirements <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed Rural Networks Category<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cotswolds Broadband<\/strong> &#8211; an innovative approach to raising investment for digital infrastructure<br \/>\n<strong>Emtelle<\/strong> &#8211; supporting alternative operators like B4RN<br \/>\n<strong>Essex County Council<\/strong> &#8211; programmes in both infrastructure and skills to give the county an economic boost<br \/>\n<strong>Synchronoss Technologies<\/strong> &#8211; showing how local authorities can get better value for public funding of broadband<br \/>\n<strong>Tove Valley<\/strong> &#8211; rural Fibre to the Premises scheme<br \/>\n<strong>Village Networks<\/strong> &#8211; overcoming copper line deficiencies with wireless<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed Urban Networks Category<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Accelerate Aberdeen, Abderdeen City Council<\/strong> &#8211; improved digital connectivity for the city and surrounding area<br \/>\n<strong>CityFibre<\/strong> &#8211; fibre to the premises for businesses and households<br \/>\n<strong>Hyperoptic<\/strong> &#8211; delivering 1Gb\/s ultrafast broadband to apartments<br \/>\n<strong>KCOM<\/strong> &#8211; fibre to the premises in Hull and East Yorkshire<br \/>\n<strong>Magnet Networks<\/strong> &#8211; enabling the Smart City of Wembley<br \/>\n<strong>MS3<\/strong> &#8211; fibre choice and competition for business users in Hull <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mobile and other Wide-Area Networks Category<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Digital Birmingham<\/strong> &#8211; large-scale public WiFI for the City<br \/>\n<strong>Calnex<\/strong> &#8211; boosting 4G\/LTE deployments with better testing kit<br \/>\n<strong>Airband Community Internet and Cambium Networks<\/strong> &#8211; improving broadband in rural Worcestershire<br \/>\n<strong>SES Broadband<\/strong> &#8211; a satellite broadband solution for rural areas<br \/>\n<strong>Open Signal<\/strong> &#8211; using crowd-sourcing for info on performance of mobile networks to make customer choices easier<br \/>\n<strong>Stream communications<\/strong> &#8211; improving the resilience of mobile networks <\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Data Category <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>eeGeo<\/strong> &#8211; a 3D mapping service using live data feeds<br \/>\n<strong>HPC Wales<\/strong> &#8211; high performance supercomputing for businesses<br \/>\n<strong>opencorporates<\/strong> &#8211; making data on companies easier to access<br \/>\n<strong>REgenerate<\/strong> &#8211; support for communities to build Open Data sources.<br \/>\n<strong>Food Trade<\/strong> &#8211; boosting markets for small suppliers<br \/>\n<strong>Transfaction<\/strong> &#8211; performance measures for transport networks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record number of entries reflects growth as the UK economy becomes increasingly digitalised<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/?p=2574\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nextgen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telecomstalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}