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2001 Winners

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Winners 2000

Nominations

Advocacy Award

Online Communities Award

Education Award

Elected Representative Award

E-government Award

BT Overall Merit Award


The New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 2001 sponsored by

Nominations received
FaxYourMP.com
anno mitchell
cherie matrix
Peter Galbavy
G Coakley
Neil Wilson
Nick Speakman
Gary Stevens
Lizzie Murphy
elliot herman
Jeff Jenkins
Haidar Kizwini
Mark Wood
Des Harper
spencer mewha
Being able to use this website encourages me to communicate more with my MP than I would otherwise do, and makes it considerably easier for me to raise any concerns I might have with the running of the country. Stuart Scott
a breakthrough the government have failed to make. very useful, absolutely essential. Ollie Cornes
A brillaint idea and ver easy to use. Ian Millar
a brilliant idea that brings you closer to your MP, It's free and easy to use, and should receive state backing. there's even links to their biogs and the register of members interests. now it's time for fax your mep! Tom Paternoster
A brilliant method for enabling communication between constituents and MPs, with sensible safeguards. Mrs J Buckland
A brilliant service that makes it so easy to find out who your MP is and then contact them! Sarah Lennon
A brilliant service, great idea. Cherrill Deans
A brilliant site which cuts through all the bureaucratic jumble and gives all of us a fool-proof way to get an issue on an MP's desk . Well designed, user friendly, nicely irreverent and it works! Humphrey C. Gervais
A brilliant site which really brings MP's closer to their constituents. Top marks Chris Brock
A fantastic way of providing a direct link to our ever busy MPs (especially in the run up to the Election). J. Peak
A good way to get hold of your MP James Crickmere
A great way to get in touch with the seeminly unattainable! Natasha Gilder
A great way to get people's voices heard. Beatrice
a positive step towards open government at last drummond gaskarth
A quick and easy way to contact your MP, find out what they've been doing and make your voice heard in parliment. James Blessing
A quick, easy and efficient way to get in touch with your MP. Roddy Campbell
a remarkably ueful service, one that the government really should provide themselves rav gera
A step closer to virtual democracy. Khalil Patwa
A superb idea which should be mandatory for every MP to really bring the idea of 'answerable government' to reality Duncan
A truely inspired idea, this site uses the power of the internet and the web to protect it's users. Dorian Moore
a very good public service for the public to contact their MP FOR FREE Arun Patel
a very useful and easy to use site Lynda Heron
A very useful service which enabled me to write to my MP asking for his assistance in less than 20 minutes, with the knowledge that my request had been delivered. Bill Laing
A very useful site that enabled me to fax my mp easily with some recent objections that i had. ann ward
A very valuable service enabling the people to better reach their M.P's Julee Oakley
A wonderful and simple to use website. I have found it so convenient. Sara Cordery
A wonderfully presented, easy to use site. Wonder what the MPs think though? John Carson
absoliutely brilliant...they have to win this if there's any justice in the world!! Susie Main
Absolutely brilliant idea and a great contribution to democracy and involvement. I only wish all MP's would have email - it should be a requirement. Brian Muirhead
absolutely brilliant service! so helpful. Julia Perry
absolutely unbeatable Daniel Barnes
Actually puts people in touch with their MPs, for free. Raises the debate about what the MP's role is and the extent to which they want to hear from their consittuents. Gives net access to MPs where Westmister has signally failed to do so. Much cleverer and more potent than it immediately appears. William Heath
All the volunteers behind this admirable site deserve recognition for the time, effort and (I presume) money they have donated to enable easier access to our elected representatives. At the very least, the volunteers have raised the vital question of the exct role of an MP - what is their job? To prance around westminster, sliming their way up the greasy ministerial pole? Or to represent their constituents. There's not enough time to do both, especially when they only allow themselves 50k to run their entire constituency office. David McCann
Amazing service that encourages greater participation from all voters - well thought out and very well executed. Simon Pilkington
an easy way to get your feelings accross to your mp kevin roe
An excellent and well executed site that will, I hope, make our MPs a little bit more responsive to thier constituents' needs rather than their party's :-) Paul Hornshaw
an excellent idea..genuine direct action!! eoin murray
An excellent service that was surprisingly simple and easy to use. Sarah Wallace
An excellent site which really puts the people in closer touch with their MP's chris thornton
An extremly useful and comforting site to connect with my mp l m hobbs
An outstanding web site which makes it a lot easier for Brits to contact their MP. The site is implemented in a way which protects privacy and reduces the opportunity for abuse. Your web site, on the other hand, is hopeless: I'm typing into a box about three inches wide. I can recommend some competent web designers. Mike Wilson
As a disabled person I have been able to use this facility to lobby my MP, with some success Alan Mead
At last! A way of contacting them without having to find out where the surgeries are. Francis Fish
Brilliant Liam www.mental-health.freeserve.co.uk/indexa.html (mental health web site) Liam
Brilliant What a great idea! Anna houston
Brilliant - so useful, simple, quick and free. Elspeth Corrigan
Brilliant easy idea David Fowler
Brilliant service. Brings the online community closer to their MP, and encourages engagement in a time of political apathy. Patrick Lewin
Brilliant site and a good service to the community Charlie McGettigan
brilliant site. fulfills a need perfectly sam howison
brilliant very well done
Brilliant! anne nash
Brilliant, no hassle means of getting directly to your MP with your views - even if you don't know who your MP is!!! Jon Yates
Brings The house of Commons, kicking and screaming, into the late 20th century (yes, 20th century; when will they get email?) Dr Richard Lawson
Easiet way to get questions through to a UK politican David Vanston
easy simple way to motivate everyday people to make their voices heard in government Paul Hampartsoumian
Excellent - turns thought to action! Mark Herring
excellent addition to democracy Matt McCabe
Excellent and a vital resource for people every where in the UK. Talib Shah
Excellent idea! Mark Gilmartin
Excellent idea, excellent site. Very effective. Anna Rothwell
Excellent idea. Now no - one has an excuse not to make their views known! Victoria Crofton
Excellent public service. Matthew Colebourne
excellent service, very simple to use. Daniel Maudsley
Excellent service. Brilliant idea. Fast, easy to use web site. A start towards taking power back into the hands of the people. Big business have their lobbyists, now we can harness the power of our numbers. Alice Coy
excellent site - well designed and quick. also an important service. john bowen
excellent way to improve communication between constituents and MPs Camilla Coxe
excellent way to improve communication between contituents and MPs Camilla Coxe
Excellent, quick, and easy. Simon Vincent
excellent, secure and comprehensive service. Promotes active democracy. Luke Blunden
exellent service,i am glad that this company came up with the idea,a great public service. Angela Laverty
Extremely easy-to-use. Excellent facility. Matthew Holford
Fabulous idea for the many people who're on the internet but have no access to a fax machine. For the first time in my life, I "wrote to my MP" because of this site. Andy Brewer
Fantastic idea Andy Vining
Fantastic service, really makes politics more accessible - will use this often and wisely! Andrea cordell
Fantastic way of making communication with MPs accessible to everybody! Maureen Plimmer
For actually implementing something that the government should have done years ago, and highlighting how MPs still haven't understood email yet. Yoz Grahame
For enabling swift contacts to be made with out elected representatives Kevin Devaney
Found it very easy to use to contact my MP. Also gave me assurances that I was using my MP for the right purposes. Sid Rodrigues
found this site extremely helpfull mike harford
good response John P. Heron
Grass roots democracy in action. Somebody give these guys an award! Salim Fadhley
Great idea, and will encourage government to be more open s davis
Great service Tony Sanders
Great service! It made it so easy to contact my MP who seems to refuse to get an email address that I'm now going to make my voice heard all the time! Fantastic concept and great delivery. Fiona Stewart
Great site- I've been wanting to do this for a long time but never got round to it. A great way to enable and ensure that peoples opinions get heard. caroline cogan
I am delighted to know that there is a website specified - www.faxyourmp.com - it is suitable for those who are deaf due to their communication problem over the telephone. Thank you Marcus Turley
I do not believe I would have received help from my MP, short of camping on his doorstep (!) if this site had not put me in touch. Their e-mail confirming the fax had been sent successfully put my mind at ease. Tina Cooper
I have been harrassing my MP for months now with this website. At work, at home, from those strange new 'phone boxes... jess garrett
I think that this web site has done more than any aother single thing in recent times to bring real democracy and accountability in this country. Now people can directly fax their MPs using the internet, making them more accountable than at any other time in history. Bilal Patel
I think this company deserves an award due to the fact that they are helping the general public to make representations to their MP and so are are helping the Government to do its job! Gerald Hendry
I thought it was a great service and made it quick and simple to contact your MP Mr. D. L. Hanson
I very much doubt I would have contacted my MP if it weren't for this website (and to tell the truth I couldn't remember her name...) Joe Farwell
I wish it was called Emailyour MP but ........it is only the beginning of the 21st Century after all......So let us congratulate this team for a modest step forward in interacting with our representatives! David Short
I've been trying to do it for ages!! How clever for someone to come up with the idea Keith Eager
I've wanted to contact my MP on a few occasions but never seemed to get round to it.This organisation make it so easy there is no excuse for not doing so. Stuart G Saunders
If there is a better example of democracy in practice, please let me know. Barny Dobson
Improves democratic communication N J SMITH
In these scary days of an "elected dictatorship" it is a comfort, however small, to know that the disenfranchised can make contact with their MP Ed Seyfried
Invaluable site for contacting MPs and technically well put together. Philip Adams
It is about time that something was available like this.Red tape is a thing of the past Darron Stone
It works ! Piers Casimir
it's brilliant and democratic Sam Jacobs
just like the internet this uses simple, effective technology to route-around the obstruction of MPs not using e-mail. Matt Jones
Just perfect. Something the government should have done themselves a long time ago... Phil Gyford
Just used it for the first time - a brilliant site! Nigel Draper
Makes democracy work that bit better John Scott
Makes it so easy to make your voice heard Justine Shaw
Makes participation easy David Pardoe
Many MPs keep their email addresses closely guarded. This site brings them out into the open and makes them far easier to contact quickly. Mike Griffin
mint idea - encourages democracy. Oliver Wilson
most useful site on the web. John Ewan
My MP does not respond to e-mails and, with her researchers, appears to be elusive. This type of service is very professional and helps. Oliver Anderson
My retired father sent his MP a fax via faxyourMP.co.uk *from his TV set*. Previously my dad had no idea who his MP was. Also the best designed website I've seen for months. Fast, simple and utterly effective. James Benson
My retired father sent his MP a fax via faxyourMP.co.uk *from his TV set*. Previously my dad had no idea who his MP was. These people deserve medals. James Benson
One of those obvious 'killer apps', which has enabled and encouraged me to make use of my MP. My MP has also responded on two occasions to my letters, once with a surprisingly comprehensive reply. tobyslater
Pretty self-evidently useful tool to aid the democratic process. Now if they'd just sort out an "email your MP" project we might be getting somewhere. Ian Collingwood
Provides a slick, super service which fills a most important gap in the chain linking government with the citizen Unique (and FREE, too!) Joe Lloyd
Putting flesh on the bones of democracy's electronic dimension Gareth Williams
really excellent and easy to use, we moved house and I have learned more about the new MP from this source in an hour than I have learned in a year Susan Garnett
Simple, effective Toby Evetts
Simple, powerful, effective and all to empower people - an amazing site. Ben Hayhow
simply superb. elegant, efficient and timely. if only we could say the same of our politicans... Matt Locke
Site lets you quickly and easily fax your Minister of Parliament (UK) with any issues you want him/her to raise. Adam Stamper
ta last, an easy simple way to contact my M.P. This does mean that they could be in receipt of public opinion form their constituences to a far greater level than before (if they read the faxes) Alan Kibblewhite
Tell them what you think! Nicholas Richards
the same group behind www.stand.org come up with another superb example of how the internet can best be used to encourage participation in political debate. The government should just admit defeat and outsource the 'e-envoys' brief to them en masse... Matt Locke
These guys have put their own time and money into a project that shows what can be easily achieved using the Internet. that they have produced something more worthwhile and useful than the entire government has truly shows that politicians will have to wake up to the Internet sooner rather than later. Phil Gyford
These people are promoting democracy in an intelligent and easily used way,Billiant stephen mccrory
This internet site enabled and empowered me to get my voice heard. Need I say more? Rinku Allam
This is a marvellous web tool enabling easy contact with my local member of parliament. Isabel Clark
This is a simple, accessible, free service, which is bridging the gap until MPs finally get on board with email facilities. Jenny Patient
This is a very fast and efficient way in which to contact your MP Irene Boyne
this is a very good web service that allows members of the public a chance to contact their MPs, I have used this service many time and have allways recieved replys. Mark Robrts
This is an excellent organistaion serving the ordinary people. Peter Roberts
This is an excellent site that supports democracy and access to elected representatives. I have not written to my MP before but used this site to raise an issue of concern that had been re-stimulated by a recent tv programme. Simple and effective! will murray
This is great David Kelly
This service is fantastic. It will identify your MP for you just by your typing in a postcode and provide links to their e-mail address and website, plus links to their speeches in parliament. However the real greatness of the site is that it allows you to type in a letter to your MP and they fax it to them on your behalf. It costs you nothing and the fax arrives almost immediately. I used the service and got a reply from my MP a couple of days later. With internet access now available in libraries, this website genuinely is a brilliant way for everybody, but especially poorer and disenfranchised members of society to find out who their MP is, information on that MP, and to get in touch with them speedily without needing a fax machine or even the price of a stamp. I recommend this site whole-heartedly. Steve Bassett
This site is excellent and well presented. It is an excellent tool of democracy Michael Taylor
this site is fantastic! matthew harding
This site was wonderful in the recent FandM outbreak allowing me to send fax,s quickly at any time. ann ward
Tremendous help. A valuable and effetive site. A brilliant idea Eric Silvester
Tremendous! A great help eric Silvester
Useful site, well organised and easy to use. Well done! Elspeth Corrigan
Very easy and quick method of communicating with one's MP - even when MP is unknown initially. Juliet Miller
very helpful s. bISWAS
Very impressive service. first time I've took part in this whole representative democracy thing. Ben Harrison
VERY USEFUL & EASY TO USE RESOURCE Antony Durose
Very useful service, gets quick results from MP, saves paper & postage Alison Munday
very useful site www.faxyourmp.com!! Billy Bob Ray
Very useful site. This was how I managed to get contact to my MP. I tried the www.opengov but it had no details of my MP. Stephen Bright
very usefull tool for reaching your local government rep. steve White
Well laid out, easy to use and extremely useful. Richard Abraham
what an exellent idea! Chris Cooper
with compliments from -Work for the World- at http://wfw.org Emeke A Animadu

Timetable

Nominations opened New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 1 January 2001
Nominations closed New Statesman New Media Awards 22 June 2001
Final shortlisting New Statesman & BT New Media Awards July 2001
Award ceremony New Statesman & BT New Media Awards 18th July 2001
Moderator New Statesman & BT New Media Awards Michael Bracken
New Statesman & BT New Media Awards