Entries In and Judges Confirmed for the 2010 ISPAs -
The ISPA Awards entries are in and it promises to be another close battle across all categories this year. Entrants are busy working with ISPA’s technical partners Epitiro to set up testing, which will start on the 15th February and continue for three months.
We are delighted that Andrew Ferguson, Editor of thinkbroadband.com, has been confirmed as the Chair of the ISPA Awards judges. The full list of judges can be found on the website - http://www.ispaawards.org.uk.
Two more sponsors have confirmed their support for the ISPA Awards with Magrathea sponsoring the Best Internet Telephony category and Eclipse Internet sponsoring the Internet Hero category.
For information about sponsoring an awards category emailawards@ispa.org.uk or phone 020 7340 8741.
The ISPA Awards will be held on the 8th July at the Grosvenor Marriott Hotel.
DediPower Joins ISPA in January
Managed hosting provider DediPower has joined ISPA this month. Their services include managed hosting and CoLocation. Further information about Dedipower can be found on their website,http://www.dedipower.com/.
"On behalf of ISPA I would like to welcome DediPower to the membership and look forward to introducing them to other ISPA members at forthcoming events", said Nicholas Lansman, ISPA Secretary General.
ISPA Supports Safer Internet Day 2010
Safer Internet Day 2010 will be held on the 9th February and will be on the topic of ‘Think before you post!’. Safer Internet Day is organised by Insafe each year in February to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.
In 2009 Safer Internet Day was marked by organisations from 50 countries all over the world, including ISPA and the Internet Watch Foundation.
As part of the public awareness coordination role on behalf of the , the CEOP Centre has launched a micro-site at http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/saferinternetdayuk, which has been designed to give schools, teachers, youth workers and child protection specialists ideas and suggestions about how to get involved.
Registering on the site will also provide access to the various educational resources – like assembly programmes and primary and secondary aged resources – provided free by CEOP, IWF and other organisations.
For more information visit:http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/saferinternetdayuk/default.aspx
Internet Stakeholders Invited to Internet Governance Forum
Nominet has invited all Internet stakeholders to the forthcoming UK Internet Governance Forum (UK IGF) meeting on 3 February.
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a discussion group that was set up by the United Nations to provide a forum for Internet stakeholders to discuss Internet policy and governance issues. Nominet sponsored a delegation of MPs to attend the recent IGF in Sharm el Sheikh, .
A number of parliamentarians and other stakeholders who attended the IGF will be sharing the messages from the discussions at the meeting. The event will take place at the BERR Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London from 14:00-17:30. To register go to http://www.nominet.org.uk/about/events/UKIGF or email laura.hutchison@nominet.org.uk.
Discount for ISPA members at Forthcoming Events
ISPA has secured discount for members at the following events
ISPA members are entitled to a 10 per cent discount to the IPTV World Forum from 23-25th March at the Olympia National Hall, London . There is also members discount to Enterprise Social Media, Social TV Forum 2010 and Cloud Computing Congress Europe all in March.
ISPA In the News
ISPA was quoted in the news this month on issues including the Digital Economy Bill, spam, the e-commerce directive and music licensing.