Internet Watch Foundation

The Internet Watch Foundation is proud to have won or been a finalist in the following awards:

 

Finalist, British Computer Society IT Awards 2008
Winner, Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007
Finalist, National Business Awards 2007
Finalist, Marketing Society Awards for Excellence 2007

Winner, Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2008
The IWF was delighted to receive an award for raising industry standards at the 2008 Nominet Best Practice Challenge awards ceremony.

 

IWF won the award for its 'notice and take-down' of child sexual abuse content which has succeeded in virtually eradicating such websites from being hosted in the UK and for facilitating an industry-led initiative to protect users by blocking access to such content hosted on foreign networks. The judges praised the IWF for continuing to raise standards through collective action and dedicated partnership and for demonstrating what great results can be achieved through self-regulation.

 

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We are pleased to announce that the IWF was a finalist in the 2008 British Computer Society (BCS) IT Awards in the Social Contribution Project Excellence Category.
 
The IWF was chosen as a finalist for this award for its facilitation of the industry-led initiative to protect users by blocking access to online child sexual abuse content.
 
The BCS IT Industry Awards, supported by Intellect and NCC, are the leading hallmark of success amongst practitioners today. The cross industry awards form a central element to the BCS’ professionalism in IT initiative and recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and the outstanding achievements to which individuals and groups contribute.

 

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Winner, Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2007
Although originally entered and shortlisted in the Security category of the 2007 Nominet Best Practice Challenge, the judges believed that both the IWF and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre should receive a Special Award for multi-stakeholder cooperation for their exemplary co-operative approach involving industry, charities, police and government and the outcomes achieved.

Finalist, National Business Awards 2007
We are delighted to have been a finalist in the 2007 National Business Awards, nominated in the Better Regulation Award category.

 

As a finalist of this award the IWF has been subject to scrutiny by a team of business experts. These judges will present the award to the organisation that can best demonstrate how it has improved, amended or simplified statutory regulation or process in order to create a more effective and efficient operating environment for UK business.

 

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Finalist, Marketing Society Awards for Excellence 2007
We are delighted that our Ten Year Anniversary Campaign was a finalist in the Marketing Society Awards for Excellence 2007, nominated in the Marketing A Cause (Not For Profit) category.

 

Entrants to the Marketing a Cause category were judged to have delivered a tangible and lasting effect and were judged on the following criteria: clear and differentiated activity; change of public perception; value delivered to cause or audience; sustainability; longevity and effective use of marketing resources.

 

Our campaign was nominated alongside the British Heart Foundation, the Keep Britain Tidy campaign and the Met Police's Trident campaign and all finalists were judged by an independent panel of top-level industry judges to have triumphed over many other marketing campaigns.

 

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