Awards

The annual Trades Union Congress Press & PR awards in the UK named the website built by Social Change Online for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)as 'Best Union Site'.

The Local-e e-Mapping project won an award in the "'Environment and Community" category at the inaugural Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards on 25 November 2004. A joint effort between the NSW Local Government and Shires Association (LGSA), Social Change Online and Sinclair Knight Mertz, this project is the first of its kind to provide Web Map publishing capabilities to more than 50 local councils in regional and rural NSW.

The Awards are present by the Community Relations Commission. They recognise and promote excellence in working in a culturally diverse society.

The website was launched in January 2000 by the New South Wales Premier’s Department to assist communities in accessing information about each other and to strengthen community activities.

The site was developed by Social Change Online.

The client: Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW.

The Awards were sponsored by the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS)

Local-e is the only Networking-the-Nation-funded Local Government Online Services Delivery program to win this award to date.

The web site was developed as part of a massive SCO-designed roll-out of web sites for 110 Councils around NSW. That project was for the NSW Local Government and Shires Associations Local-e project, funded by the Commonwealth Government's Networking the Nation program.

See the site at http://www.yass.nsw.gov.au

Combined Major Superannuation Funds represents major corporate, public sector and industry superannuation funds in Australia, with the majority of Australian adults as their members and hundreds of billions of dollars under management.

The CTC @ NSW program received a silver award for services to regional/rural NSW out of a field of 9 nominations. Premier's Public Sector Awards recognise excellence in the public sector and demonstrate the public sector's commitment to quality and excellence. Learn more about the CTC@NSW program. Click to get more information: NSW Premier’s Public Sector Awards

Nominated 4 years in a row. Reach Out! is based on the idea that the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities to reach out to people - especially young people - to connect, empower and inspire. Reach Out! offers an anonymous and stigma-free way to get help, explore issues and to discover how other young people have got through difficult times. A project of the Inspire Foundation, the Reach Out! site has been developed by Social Change Online since 1997.

Criteria included: * Audience focus * Content * Usability and Accessibility * Appearance Sites were also evaluated in relation to the ‘Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Legal Websites’ issued by the Legal Information Standards Council, http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/lisc/recommend/bpguide.html