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)
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on Twitter, Google+, Facebook and Linkedin.
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