DigitalNZ nominated for New Zealand Hi-Tech Award

Media Release 27 March 2009

DigitalNZ nominated for New Zealand Hi-Tech Award

DigitalNZ, a nation-wide project launched by the National Library of New Zealand to help make New Zealand digital content easier to find, share and use, has been nominated for the New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.

The project has been selected as a finalist in the Outstanding Industry Initiative category of the PricewaterhouseCoopers, New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards which will be held in Christchurch on May 1.

Sue Sutherland, Acting Director of the National Digital Library, National Library of New Zealand says "We are delighted to get the nomination, Digital New Zealand is an excellent initiative which offers New Zealanders interactive access to a variety of resources, knowledge and stories from a range of organisations, communities and individuals. It makes New Zealand content of all types more discoverable, accessible and usable".

DigitalNZ is a collaborative project, led by the National Library which aims to test new ways to create digital content, collect and share existing digital content and build smart, freely available search and discovery tools.

A primary aim of the DigitalNZ project is to increase the amount of New Zealand digital content available online. About two thirds of New Zealanders access the internet and of these approximately 84% browse the web using search engines. Ease of use and ease of discovery is crucial to web browsers: content that can't be easily found won’t be used. DigitalNZ works with content creators (including government, the education sector, cultural institutions, community groups and more) to help them get their content online in a form that can be easily found and used by web users. For further information about DigitalNZ go to www.digitalnz.org

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