Nominees for the annual UK Internet Industry Awards
The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA UK), the internet trade association announced the nominees for the internet’s heroes and villains of 2007 for their contribution to the industry. These special awards will be given to the winners at the 10th annual UK Internet Industry Awards 2008 which is organized by the ISPA in association with Epitro. Both individuals and organizations have been nominated for these awards which are sponsored by UK fast.
Among the individuals who have been nominated for internet hero awards, Derek Wyatt MP and Peter Robbins OBE QPM, Chief Executive, IWF are included. While the former finds his place ‘for a decade of support promoting the Internet in the UK Parliament as chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group since 1997’, the latter has been nominated ‘for his continued leadership of the IWF and approach to fostering extensive partnerships with the Internet industry, the government and law enforcement agencies to tackle illegal online content.’
Facebook, the popular P2P site has been chosen as a nominee for internet hero award for respecting peoples’ browsing privacy by retracting the Beacon service, a system which automatically records user’s online spending habits, by making it an opt-in not opt-out service.’
Interestingly, ISPA nominates BT Wholesale in the internet villain category for changing the whole engineering plan for 21CN only six months before the launch date,’ and David Cameron MP for ‘buddying up with the music industry and trying to appeal to a younger audience.’
This year’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) Award which will honour an individual or organisation that has contributed to the fight against child abuse content has also announced the nominees that include Brightfilter.
Brightfilter has been nominated for providing filter to protect their customers from ‘accidentally stumbling across indecent images of children.’
ISPA also awards the ISPs in 14 different categories such as ‘best consumer ISP’ ‘best wireless ISP’, ‘best business broadband ISP’ etc.
