UK Jodi Awards 2010
Posted by Brian Kelly on December 6th, 2010
The Winners of the UK Jodi Awards 2010 for accessible digital culture were announced on 1st December 2010 at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Some some thirty delegates from many parts of Scotland had braved the snow to attend the event and the ‘Doing Digital Sensibly’ seminar about digital inclusion. The event was jointly organised by Digital Access Scotland, the Jodi Mattes Trust, the Scottish Archive Network, National Archives of Scotland, Museums Galleries Scotland and the Scottish Libraries and Information Council.
The Winners are:
Winner Digital Access Online: Historic Royal Palaces (http://www.hrp.org.uk/Accessibility.aspx) for their British Sign Language visitor information
Winner Digital Access for People with a Learning Disability: British Dental Association Museum for their Medicine at the Movies project http://www.bda.org/museum/learning-and-access/films/
Commendation for Digital Access for People with a Learning Disability: Inclusive Communication Essex http://www.essexice.co.uk/
Commendation for Digital Access onsite: Medicine at the Movies (http://www.youtube.com/user/UKMCG), a partnership of six museums, including the Thackray Museum, the British Dental Association Museum and the George Marshall Medical Museum.
Read statement by Joanne Oar, Chief Executive, Museums Galleries Scotland and more on www.jodiawards.org.uk.
Look up case-studies of the Commended and Winning projects on
www.jodiawards.org.uk/awards