Digital focus: Digital champions and town projects take note!
People and towns across Cork are being called on to enter the annual .IE Digital Town Awards 2022, honouring local town projects and people that are using digital to transform or enhance their communities for the betterment of local people, services and society.
An initiative of . IE - the managers of Ireland’s trusted online .ie address – 2022 is the second year of the awards, which offer a total prize fund of €100,000 across 14 award categories including Digital Business, Community Digital, Digital Rising Star, Digital Changemaker, and Digital Local Hero.
Now open for applications, the .IE Digital Town Awards has a total prize fund of €100,000 across 14 categories to honour local towns and people that, through digital projects and innovation, have contributed to enhancements in areas such as e-health, digital tourism, community, education, and digital business.
Last year Cork did extremely well in the awards, with Fermoy amongst the two county winners, where their ‘Connection to the Community’ project finished runner-up in the Large Town category, for its role in enriching the town using digital technology like the Fermoy app. While in Skibbereen, ‘The Ludgate Hub’ won the Digital Changemaker award.
The awards organisers are now excited to see what digital projects the people of Cork and beyond will enter this year after such an outstanding contribution to the awards last year.
CATEGORIES AND AWARDS
Ten of the awards will be digital projects in the areas of education, tourism, health, business, and community, with a further four special awards recognising a Digital Changemaker, Digital Rising Star, Digital Local Hero, and an Overall Winner, which will be decided on by an independent judging panel.
CLOSING DATE MARCH 25TH
The judging panel for this year’s special awards categories will be looking for digital leaders who show a genuine passion and ambition for their town or community, are self-motivated, and who apply digital thinking to problem solve with creative solutions and innovative ideas that ‘disrupt’ and enhance towns and communities for everyone’s benefit.
Finally, the Digital Local Hero award will recognise the unsung heroes nominated by their peers for their tireless work on community-focused and digitally led initiatives that make a town or a group in the town better.
Applications will close at 17.00 on Friday, 25 March and the winners and runners-up will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on 8 June. Visit www.weare.ie for further information.