Divorce service nominated for New Statesman New Media Award
Added: (Tue Jun 10 2003)
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The New Statesman, Britain’s leading political magazine, announces the short listing of Divorce-Online (www.divorce-online.co.uk) in their New Media Awards in the category of Civic Society.
Since 1999, these awards have promoted projects that embrace new technology, fresh thinking and creative management in the UK.
The key themes of this year’s awards are "innovation, accessibility and efficiency".
They intend to award those who have really achieved something good for society.
“We hear a great deal about how the Internet and such like will improve our lives,” says Peter Wilby, editor of the New Statesman. “This project aims to look at how far the digital revolution has really brought us.”
“It is a real honour for our website to be shortlisted against such good competition in the Civic Society category and it is probably very rare for any legal service to be considered for an award of this type which looks at the effect of the service on the community rather from a purely commercial angle”
Mark Keenan
Managing Director
Notes to editors
Divorce-Online is the UK’s leading website dealing with divorce and separation issues from a legal and community standpoint and is the only online legal service to have been awarded a Quality Mark from the Legal Services Commission
This is the fifth year that the New Statesman has conducted the New Media Awards. This
year the awards are in association with SchlumbergerSema, a global technology services
company.
Anyone with an eligible example of ICT in public life is welcome to nominate it for review.
Nominations are accepted until 31 May 2003. Highest achieving nominations will be awarded a prize at an awards ceremony in Central London in July.
The expert panel of judges – including John Kampfner, political editor of the New Statesman, and Richard Granger, Director General of NHS Information Technology – will be seeking to highlight those who have used new technology to benefit society by delivering tangible improvements at all levels of public life.
Full details of the awards can be found at:
www.newstatesman.com/newmedia