Awards for Organisations

These six award categories are open to any New Zealand-based organisation – private, public, academic or not for profit – provided the evidence submitted relates to the year immediately prior to the making of the application.

Keep the word limit for submissions under 2000 words. It's good practice to clearly identify and address the relevant sections from the award's criteria as a guide when writing your submission. Feel free to rearrange and add additional items to suit the particular submission. Nominees should be able to provide sufficient evidence to substantiate any claims.

Environment & Sustainability
The Environment and Sustainability Award recognises products and projects that help to resolve any issue in an environmental context.

Specific criteria:

Benefit to the environment. Impact on natural resource management and effect on the balance of the environment.
Methodology, verification and reporting.
Actions taken to address safety and structural or technical integrity.
Application of emerging or developing technologies.

Export
The Award for Export recognises products or projects that successfully and commercially apply specific spatial knowledge, products, and/or IP in an export market.

Specific criteria:

Proportion of local specific content.
Developed locally and/or developed in conjunction with the export market.
Actively marketed into export countries.
Overcoming barriers of entry to the export market.
Use and application of technology, services or data within an export market.

Innovation & Commercialisation
The Award for Innovation and Commercialisation recognises products or projects that made a significant contribution to the industry through the introduction of a new idea, method, technology, process or application resulting in social, environmental and/or economic benefits.

Specific criteria:

Design of original solutions or ingenious adaptation of existing solutions.
Innovative application of emerging or developing technologies.
Commercial viability including market take-up of the innovation.
Overcoming barriers of entry to market.
Sustainability (social, cultural, environmental and/or economic) benefit to the industry or the community.

People & Community
The People and Community Award recognises products or projects that make a difference to national, regional or local issues and affect communities via ‘grass roots ’ initiatives, and/or educational programs, services or tools that permit the widespread adoption, use, understanding and access to spatially enabled products or services.

Specific criteria:

Demonstrated community acceptance, understanding and uptake of the solution.
Training, educational programs or tools enabling adoption.
Demonstrated benefit and/or contribution to community.

Spatial Enablement
The Award for Spatial Enablement recognises products or projects in which the application of spatial information, methodology and/or tools has greatly improved the outcomes of a project, process or product.

Specific criteria:

Application of spatial information, methodology and/or tools in a non-spatial market or project.
Demonstrated benefit and outcomes as a result of spatial enablement. Identification of the business outcome that was not able to be delivered without the spatial technology and information.
Has the project been implemented and how long is it likely to be utilised.

Technical Excellence
The Technical Excellence Award recognises products or projects that implemented spatial solutions to an exceptionally high technical standard, overcoming significant technical challenges, and delivering outstanding results for the client.
In contrast with the Innovation Award, this category focuses on excellence in applying existing technology and methodologies.

Specific criteria:

Level of complexity of the challenge.
Degree of technical methodology to overcome the challenge in delivering the solution.
Peer review and/or client satisfaction.
Potential as a new spatial sciences benchmark.

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