The Grand Prix Winner of last year's award was Daimler Chrysler for the company's forward thinking Public/Private Partnership HIV/AIDS Workplace Project. Other ingenious projects that won awards last year included an Automatic Combustion Management System (Agram Energy); a Satellite-linked IP Multi-casting (Three Blind Mice); Submersible Pumps (Hazleton Pumps); an Access for Justice for Women and Children Initiative (Centre for Criminal Justice); a Partner Relationship Management Solution (Intico); the N-Tyre System (N-Tyre); and a Pension Biometric Integrated Solution (South African Post Office).
"The core objective of the Innovation and Sustainability Awards is to identify and recognise initiatives, undertakings, projects and products that are outstanding both in innovation excellence and long-term sustainability," says Wolfgang Jakob, CEO of T-Systems SA, who is the main sponsor of the award.
"Innovation and sustainability form the key to the continued growth of South Africa's economy and we believe these awards play an important role in raising the awareness of innovation and sustainability in our country and the ICT industry," says Jakob. "The awards promote excellence in innovation, the sharing of knowledge and creating role models for companies to aspire to and T-Systems is proud to be part of this process."
The private sector and NGOs can enter in any of the following award categories:
1. Excellence in innovation and sustainability: Social.
2. Excellence in innovation and sustainability: Environmental.
3. Excellence in innovation and sustainability: Economic: ICT.
4. Excellence in innovation and sustainability: Economic: non-ICT activities.
5. Most outstanding innovation for women.
6. Most outstanding innovation for the disabled.
7. Most outstanding new innovation.
The awards are jointly supported and endorsed by Axius Publishing, the Centre for Public Service Innovation and The Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management. The closing date for entries is 30 June 2004. Companies can get more information about the awards at http://www.axius.co.za/ or phone Cecile Cotton on Tel: (011) 880 7767.
Idea Engineers on behalf of T-Systems.
