Posted: 14 December 2006
Northlander wins International Study Award
A Whangarei-based Council worker has won an international study award and is to visit Great Britain next year to research how website and other technologies are being used by local authorities overseas.
A Whangarei-based Council worker has won an international study award and is to visit Great Britain next year to research how website and other technologies are being used by local authorities overseas.
Jason Dawson, 32, Community Relations Team Leader for the Northland Regional Council, was recently named this year’s winner of the 2006 ALGIM (Association of Local Government Information Management) International Study Award.
ALGIM is a New Zealand-based group representing local authority staff working in Information, Communication and Technology or Information Management and this is the second year the award has been made.
Online communications – including responsibility for the NRC’s website and intranet – are among Mr Dawson’s key roles and he is also involved in local authority on-line communications at a national level.
Mr Dawson, a former employee who returned to the NRC in 2004 take up his current role after an eight-year absence, hopes to use the $5000 award late next year.
He plans to attend the Society of IT Managers United Kingdom Conference in Belfast and then spend several weeks in England and Scotland investigating how overseas local authorities are modernising delivery of their services through websites and other technology.