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25 April 2003
GOSH AWARDED INTERNATIONAL ONLINE HONOURS
Great Ormond Street Hospital wins 1st place for children's
website : Prime Minister congratulates all Cable & Wireless
Childnet Award winners
London, Friday 25 April 2003: Great Ormond Street’s
Kids & Teens website (www.gosh.nhs.uk/kidsandteens)
won the Not for Profit category at the sixth annual Cable
& Wireless Childnet Awards, held at the Science Museum
in London last night. TV personality Carol Vorderman, and
Lizo Mzimba from the BBC Newsround Team hosted the Awards
ceremony.
The Great Ormond Street project was described by the independent
panel of judges as “an outstanding example of how
a hospital can create quality, authoritative information
on issues relating to health in a fun, child-centred and
accessible way.”
Great Ormond Street’s Kids & Teens site has been
written by and with young people at the UK’s largest
specialist children’s hospital. The interactive site
provides a powerful platform from which children can share
their hospital experience with others and learn about medical
issues.
“This international Childnet Award is a great honour
because it recognises how the hospital can use the web creatively
to support children, as well as their parents, giving them
access to health resources and an online community at the
time of their illness.” said Gary Loach, children
& families editor at Great Ormond Street Hospital and
the Institute of Child Health.
“The site caught our attention because of its simplicity,
rich content for different age groups and strong visual
identity,” explained the Awards judges.
The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP sent a message
of congratulation to the winners in all four Award categories.
He said:
“The winners of the Cable & Wireless Childnet
Awards 2003 truly bring the Internet to life - inspiring
young people to express opinions, share skills and communicate
with others around the world.
We all have a responsibility to ensure that the Internet
is a great and safe place, which can be used by people
from all generations. The Awards demonstrate just what
can be achieved via the Internet and I would like to pass
on my sincere congratulations to the winners and to all
of those who entered the Awards.”
In the Individual category, US teenager Heather Lawver's
Harry Potter inspired Daily Prophet online newspaper (www.dprophet.com)
came first. Willougby Elementary School from Canada won
the Schools category (www.schoolcentral.com/willoughby4).
The “New to the Net” awards recognised two
projects which are in their development stages. The IEARN
project from Sierra Leone (www.childsoldiers.org)
aims to encourage children who have been caught up in conflict,
to share their experiences and a desire for peace. The www.Youngbiz.net
project, developed by three teenagers from Egypt and USA,
helps other young people seeking to start their own business.
This year’s Awards ceremony was held at the Science
Museum's IMAX theatre, and was attended by more than 500
guests, including Stephen Timms MP, UK minister for e-commerce,
several national ambassadors, and more than 100 young people
from around the world.
The Awards, run by children’s Internet charity, Childnet
International and supported by Cable & Wireless, recognise
the innovation and creativity of young people, teachers
and not-for-profit organisations that have developed websites
which benefit young people around the world.
For further information please contact:
Stephen Carrick-Davies, Childnet International, Tel: +44
771 245 1859
Joe Franses, Cable & Wireless, Tel: +44 20 7315 4489
or +44 7961 338 721
Ed Knight, Cable & Wireless, Tel: +44 20 7315 6759
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