Awards/Commendations

Cork City Council's website wins Best Local Irish eGovernment Award.

 

Ruth Buckley, Head of Information Systems Cork City Council, receiving the award for Best Local Government website from Tom Kitt T.D. Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach with responsibility for eGovernment. Also included in the photograph is Annie Arshak from Smart Telecom.

Cork City Council's website won an Irish eGovernment Award for best local government web innovation. This award was for the website or online service that has succeeded in clearly delivering better services, information and efficiencies to its target audience. Key factors include enhanced customer service, an increase in efficiencies, access to local information or resource savings, simplicity or ease of use and innovation. This brings off a unique double as the council also won the Irish Internet Golden Spider Award for Best Local Authority Website in November 2005.

The Irish eGovernment Awards were hosted by Elucidate and the Public Sector Times. Reach was the premier Sponsor and other sponsors included Smart Telecom, Eircom and Foras na Gaeilge. The Irish eGovernment Awards were attended by Tom Kitt T.D. Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach with responsibility for eGovernment.

Ger Desmond, Eileen O'Leary, Ruth Buckley and Al Devine, Information Systems Department, Cork City Council, photographed at the Awards Ceremony.

Ger Desmond, Eileen O'Leary and Al Devine, Information Systems Department, Cork City Council, photographed at the Awards Ceremony.

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Cork City Council's website wins a Golden Spider Award
December 2005

Ger Desmond, Eileen O'Leary and Al Devine of the Information Systems Department, Cork City Council, photographed at the Golden Spiders Irish Internet Awards 2005.

Cork City Council’s primary website www.corkcity.ie won a Golden Spider Award for the the 'Best Public Sector Website - Local' in the Golden Spiders Irish Internet Awards 2005. This award recognises the best use of the Internet by a Public Sector organisation. The organisation must look to deliver on innovation and the ability to integrate the Internet as a business tool. The Lifetime Lab website www.lifetimelab.ie was also shortlisted for the ‘Best Public Sector Website - Local' category.

The awards were announced on Thursday 1st December 2005 www.goldenspiders.ie.

Fintan Lawler of Eircom.Net presenting the Golden Spider Award to Ger Desmond of the Information Systems Department, Cork City Council.

Joe Gavin, City Manager, Eileen O’Leary, Ger Desmond, Al Devine, IS Department, Denis O’Mahony, Director of Service (Environment) and Ruth Buckley, Head of Information Systems photographed in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Cork.

Jerry Moynihan and Mary Walsh representing the Lifetime Lab at the Awards Ceremony.

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LGCSB Internet Services Excellence Award 2002 Commendation

The Local Government Computer Services Board awarded an Internet Services Excellence Award 2002 Commendation to Cork City Council as a city that provides high quality services over the Internet. The award was given by the LGCSB following the examination of a number of Irish Local Authority websites.

The award ceremony was made on board the Jeanie Johnston. L to R: Dave Moynihaan, Ger Desmond, Dave Power, Eileen O'Leary, Maurice Murphy, Ruth Buckley, Margo O'Connell and Bryan Humphreys.

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