2017 NextGen Digital Challenge Awards Sees Win for B4RN and Diva Telecom

The annual NextGen Digital Challenge Awards were held last night in London, which saw rural FTTH ISP B4RN win the ‘Place Making Award‘ for their efforts in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Meanwhile Diva Telecom scooped the ‘Connected Britain Award‘ for their Eltofts village project.

The NextGen Awards tend to celebrate successful digital projects and applications, which can involve anything from broadband infrastructure to the development of Digital Skills or other related fields. The details of who won what and why aren’t always very clear, although B4RN needs no introduction for their long standing efforts and Diva’s award related to their Cityfibre linked FTTP deployment to the rural community of Eltofts (here).

2017 NextGen Digital Challenge Winners

Public Service Transformation Award

Winner: NHS Education for Scotland – NES – Delivering Digital Transformation

2nd Place: CCEA – Digital examination Marking

Digital Skills Award

Winner: Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Borough Council – Digital Youth Programme

Joint 2nd Place: Arch Commercial Enterprises Ltd (Business Northumberland) –and- Young Enterprise East Belfast Enterprise (AR Story)

Innovative Projects Award

Winner: People Plus with Mendix – JourneyPlus

2nd Place: CAST Fuse Accelerator – Fuse Digital Accelerator for Nonprofits

Place-Making Award

Winner: Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) – the Yorkshire Dales National Park

2nd Place: Good Things Foundation – Princes Countryside Fund

Digital Health Award

Winner: DVLA – Online Fitness to Drive

Joint 2nd Place: AHP Suffolk (Musculoskeletal Pain – self-help website) –and- NHS Education for Scotland (Transforming Health & Social Care)

Networking Innovations Award

Winner: HATDeX – The Hub of all Things

2nd Place: JT (Jersey Telecom) – Innovative Open-Roaming SIM Solution

Connected Britain Award

Winner: Diva Telecom – Eltofts Village Project

2nd Place: Tiree CDT – Tiree CDT & Community Broadband Scotland (HIENT)