Judges
Hampshire County Council would like to express its thanks to all the judges who have given their time and expertise.
Most Accessible Website
Julie Howell
Julie Howell is Director of Accessibility at digital design agency Fortune Cookie. Prior to this she was the Digital Policy Development Manager at the Royal National Institute of the Blind where she worked for 12 years. She has worked with policy makers, information architects, manufacturers and software designers, businesses across all sectors and government agencies to ensure the accessibility to disabled people of digital information products and services.
Julie was a founder member of the NHS Care Record Development Board (CRDB), working to ensure the accessibility to disabled people for the forthcoming NHS Care Records Service. She is a member of the NHS Voluntary Sector Advisory Group. Julie is a Technical Author of a new BSI specification for accessible website design, 'Publicly Available Specification 78: Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites'.
During 2005/6, Julie held theNew Media Age Effectiveness Award for 'The Greatest Individual Contribution to New Media'. In 2007, Julie received a 'special lifetime achievement' award at the Imperatives Digital Awards 2006.
You can learn more about Julie at her own website, www.juliehowell.co.ukBest Charity or Voluntary Organisation Website
Judy Goodlet
It's just as well Judy is a 'morning person' - she's in the studio by 4am to prepare for the Early Morning Show that goes to air from 5-6.30am. If you are finishing off a night shift, or having to make an early start, it's Judy's job to give you a mixture of music and chat along with the essential travel and weather information.
Judy's career in broadcasting began as the IT Guru on BBC Radio Solent (including a phone in on Richard Cartridge's popular afternoon show). At this time she was running an IT training company and developing systems in Microsoft Access for local businesses, having just left a lecturing role at Winchester University (then, King Alfred's College). The lure of the media became overwhelming and now she balances broadcasting with the occasional lecturing and training role.
Cllr Rod Baulk
Cllr Rod Baulk is the Conservative Member of Hampshire County Council for Farnborough North and has been a councillor since July 2001. He is Hampshire County Council's e-Government champion and an enthusiastic supporter of the Silver Surfers campaign in Hampshire. He is a formidable campaigner on local issues and Champions IT on the Council.
Currently Rod is serving on five committees, for employment in Hampshire, the fire and rescue authority, policy resources and scrutiny, culture and communities and the buildings, land and procurement panel.
He is married with two daughters.Best Interactive Website
Dr Jon Rimmer
Dr Jon Rimmer is a researcher and lecture in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. He is currently based at University College London and is also a consultant for both public and privately developed projects on usability issues.
Usability strives to make products easier to learn and remember, more efficient to use, more reliable and of course more enjoyable. His interests are in developing techniques to gather useful information on users that can be used to steer the design from the start of any project.Best Local Area Website
Councillor Jackie Porter
Jackie Porter was a Parish Councillor for ten years, and whilst a City Councillor, took part in a review of Community based websites countrywide. Her current role as County Councillor with ten parishes in the division gives her a good idea of the ways in which communities are served by websites. She hopes that this experience will inform her decision in this year's judging.
Nigel Bates
Nigel joined Hedra plc at the beginning of 2007 as Head of Local and Regional Government (LRG), and is responsible for our business growth in the sector, in particular supporting Transformation programmes and delivering strategic solutions for key customers. He is building a team to continue the strong growth and development of a local government focused business. He joined with over 14 years of successful sales and management in IT Solutions, complex software development, telecommunications, data networking, e-business and CRM solutions.
Nigel joined us from Microsoft where, as Director of Local and Regional Government, he created a new local and regional government team in Microsoft Public Sector. Nigel was responsible for the group’s strategy, product portfolio and investments for growing the business over 100% in his time there.
Nigel can be credited for building the global pilot for a new business model for local government engagement, a model which is now being rolled out across every subsidiary in the world after reaching Microsoft’s Global ‘Best Practice’ status.
Prior to Microsoft, Nigel was founder and Managing Director of Cognotive, a software and development services business and was former WebGain MD for Northern EMEA and Sales Manager for SAP’s public sector business in the UK.Best Public Service Website
Stephen Lawrence
Stephen has been in the Internet and communications business for over 13 years in various sales and commercial roles. He was involved at the early stages of the Telegraph online and with various Internet companies, including the start-up firm that brought Symantec to the UK. Stephen was with Cable & Wireless for five years before joining the e-Government Unit in May 2003 as the Director for the Solutions Group in the e-Delivery Team.
Stephen was instrumental in the successful take-up and adoption of the Government Gateway, and other Common Infrastructure components, by public sector organisations. It was then a natural move in January 2006 to join Government Connect, a DCLG funded programme, which aims to bring Local and Central Government closer via secure, enabling technology. Stephen used his experience from Cabinet Office to achieve a similar success in generating appetite for the Government Connect portfolio.
Stephen is now accountable for promoting and positioning the services provided by the Chief Information Officer’s Directorate across the Defra Family. This will include growing the value of the IBM ‘e-nabling’ outsource partnership and marketing the benefits of Enterprise Architecture and as well as other CIOD services.Best Recreation and Tourism Website
Andrew Bateman
Andrew is Tourism Manager for Hampshire County Council. Since joining the county council in 1998, he has been responsible for a wide range of tourism marketing and development projects, many in partnership with Hampshire’s military heritage sector. Ensuring that Hampshire’s tourism product can capitalise from the huge potential that web based marketing presents is also a key focus.
A graduate from the University of Wales College Swansea in Geography and holder of a postgraduate diploma in tourism from Strathclyde University, he has spent the whole of his career to date in tourism. This has also included spells in private sector tourism consultancy, event management, and as a scuba diving guide and instructor in the Red Sea and Thailand.
Andrew gained an MBA in 2005 and in his spare time likes to take advantage of Hampshire’s great country and water based leisure opportunities.
Martin Bazley
Martin Bazley is the director of ICT4Learning.com. He taught in Secondary schools for 8 years before joining the Science Museum in 1995, where he worked for 7 years as Internet Projects Manager in the Learning Unit. While working 2 days a week as elearning officer for SEMLAC, he built up the work of ICT4Learning.com, which offers user testing and evaluation, development of websites for learning, training and consultancy.
He also chairs the eLearning Group for Museums, Libraries and Archives. He has a wealth of experience in website design, implementation and management and development of learning resources for the web.Best Rural Enterprise Website
Malcolm Crabtree
Malcolm Crabtree is Managing Director of Leckford Estate, the Waitrose Farm near Stockbridge in the Test Valley. The Estate is a diversified food, farming, property and leisure business employing some 180 staff. Malcolm lives and works in the countryside and is heavily involved in rural issues as Chairman of the HEP Rural Economy Task Group and a governor of Sparsholt College and Test Valley School, Stockbridge.
His only claim to fame on the IT front is that he was one of the first Agricultural Advisers to use computers on farm when he worked for the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service(part of MAFF) in the South West of England. He worked for the organisation in various roles for almost 20 years culminating in Regional Manager for Advisory Services in the Midlands and Western Region before joining the John Lewis Partnership at Leckford Estate in 1992.
Best School and College Website
Martyn Wilson
Martyn was a teacher for nineteen years. He began teaching science in a Secondary school which became a Middle school. He then transferred to a Grammar school which became a Comprehensive school. Whilst completing the school timetable one summer he discovered that he could not fit anyone in to teach a new subject called Computer Studies and decided that he would try himself. This led to him becoming the coordinator for this new subject which developed over the years into ICT and became pervasive throughout all parts of school life.
He became an Advisor and Inspector for Hampshire County Council in 1990 and has enjoyed the job ever since. He works both in Primary, Secondary and Special schools although he is still intimidated by four and five year olds! He believes in the power of ICT to transform learning and feels that we need to ensure pupils learn to use the whole range of ICT tools properly.
Phil Burner
Phil Burner is Web Content Editor for Newsquest Hampshire. Phil joined The Daily Echo in 1968 working in the darkroom, within a few years he became a staff photographer and from 1993 to 1997 Picture Editor.
Remaining with the company he then took on the role of implementing digital archiving across the newspaper group, this developed into the role of Web Content Editor.
He oversaw the development, design, and introduction of Newscom's sites across the south west - around eleven newspaper portal sites and many more bolt-ons. Through company restructuring Phil now manages the Hampshire sites under the "This is" banner with particular emphasis on the flagship site www.thisissouthampton.co.uk. This is Hampshire receives around 900,000 page impressions per month.Best Small Business Website
Matthew Treagus
Matthew Treagus is one of the UK's most experienced web consultants. For over thirteen years he has helped organisations like Sainsbury's, Dyson, Topshop and Microsoft use web technologies to enhance their business performance and their customers' experience.
Matthew's pet subject is helping organisations change to take advantage of the web.
Matthew began his web career as a co-founder of AKQA - the UK's largest independent web design firm. He now runs his own consulting firm helping brands build their web strategies and manage the projects required to deliver them.Best Special Interest Website
Howard Gerlis
Howard is currently the chairman, and founder member, of the British Computer Society Internet Specialist Group and is the chairman of the BCS Specialist Groups Assembly, in addition to holding other roles in the Society.
The British Computer Society (BCS) is the only Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Systems Engineering. With almost 60,000 members world-wide, the BCS is the leading professional and learned Society in the field of computers and information systems.
His career, since graduating from the University of Westminster in 1976, has been entirely in the field of commercial computing and he has a background of projects in computers and Information Systems at both the strategic, and technical, levels. In 1993 Howard set up Andor Information Technology Ltd an IT services company based in London.
Howard has written for various publications, including Computer Weekly and Computing Magazine of which, he was a consultant editor, plus he has written several papers and has been a presenter at various IT seminars.Best Young Persons' Website
Louise Gibbs
Since the age of 16, Louise has been actively involved with running children’s play schemes during the summer holidays as well as working in a range of different nursery schools. Louise completed a BTEC National Diploma in Childhood Studies at Highbury College, Portsmouth.
Louise then went onto complete a BA Hons in Childhood Studies at Chichester University. Through University Louise became involved in volunteering with the Youth Offending Team, where she is a voluntary panel member in the community for those young people who have offended and been given an referral ordered through the court process.
Louise has been in her role at Connexions for two years. As the Participation co-ordinator, Louise provides strategic direction and co-ordinates information to her team of 11 Participation Workers who are based in each area of the South Central partnership.
Lara Cain
From the age of 18, Lara was studying for a Primary Education degree at the University of Chichester. The degree included three extended teaching placements at local primary schools. During University, Lara also worked for Freedom childcare from the age of 20 to get extra experience with young people. The work included play schemes, crèche’s and babysitting.
Lara has been in her role at Fareham and Gosport Connexions since September 2006. As a Participation Worker, Lara actively encourages young people to get involved and participating in local activities and meetings. Young people attending Lara’s youth forums are also members of Fareham Funding Group, Gosport’s Youth Opportunity fund panel, Fareham and Gosport Youth Councils, Hampshire County Youth Council and the Youth Independent Advisory Group run in partnership with Hampshire Constabulary.
Chris Carter
My name is Chris Carter. I live in Gosport but was born in Ireland.
I love getting involved with youth activities. Some of the recent activities I have been involved with are the Joint Area Review for Hampshire as a Young JAR Inspector, the Youth Independent Advisory Group ( YIAG) working with Hampshire Constabulary and the Gosport Youth Forum (GYF). I also enjoy being out with my friends and family.
Abby Harris
Since the age of 14 Abby has been involved with her local Connexions Youth Forum.
Abby is a year 10 pupil at Bridgemary Community Sports College who is very active and engaged with her youth work. Since the beginning of the year she has become more involved with her local councils and also much more with Connexions. Abby has been a JAR (Joint Area Review) Young Inspector for Hampshire.
Abby is also involved in the County Youth Council, Youth Opportunity Fund, Fareham Youth Council, Youth Independent Advisory Group working with Hampshire Constabulary, and has completed her CAT Mark training to become an assessor.