News Filters

Did you know?

By registering with this website you can receive email notifications when news articles are added to the website.

If you are already registered then you may wish to log in.

Jodi awards winners announced

Sue Whittaker from Historic Royal Palaces, receiving the Jodi Award UK 2010 for Digital Access Online, presented by Loretta Mordi from Museums Galleries Scotland

The Winners of the UK Jodi Awards 2010 for accessible digital culture were announced yesterday at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh.

The Jodi Awards are for library, archive, museum, gallery, heritage and disability organisations. They award examples of best use of digital technology to widen access for disabled people to information, collections and learning.

The awards were made as part of a ‘Doing Digital Sensibly’ seminar about digital inclusion organised by Digital Access Scotland, the Jodi Mattes Trust, the Scottish Archive Network, National Archives of Scotland, the Scottish Libraries and Information Council and Museums Galleries Scotland.

Joanne Orr, CEO of Museums Galleries Scotland, said:
“As museums and galleries continue to open up their collections and resources to audiences online we must ensure that we are meeting the needs of all people to access them.”

“Museums Galleries Scotland is pleased to support the JODI Awards. Celebrating the innovative projects that have been awarded today should inspire us as a sector to consider how we continue to make culture accessible digitally, for disabled people and under-represented audiences.”

Marcus Weisen, Director of the Jodi Mattes Trust said:
“Working with the cultural bodies of Scotland has been a great pleasure. At ‘Doing Digital Sensibly’, we discussed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, which recognises the right of disabled people to take part ‘on equal terms’ in cultural life. The journey towards this goal is exciting and will harness the cultural sector’s great creative skills. The Jodi Awards celebrate best practice and share out the learning. I very much hope that a growing number of organisations from Scotland will join the process and nominate projects for the Jodi Awards.”

For further information:

For inforamtion on the winning projects visit www.jodiawards.org.uk

Published
2nd Dec 2010

Region
Aberdeen and Grampian
Angus and Dundee City
Argyll and Bute
Ayrshire
Dumfries and Galloway
Edinburgh and Lothians
Eilean Siar
Fife
Greater Glasgow
Highland
Orkney
Perth and Kinross
Scottish Borders
Shetland
Stirling
National

Publisher
MGS