2006 CAPAM International Innovations Awards Programme

The  CAPAM International Innovations Awards Programme is a biennial award given to organizations from across the Commonwealth that have contributed a significant innovation to public administration and management. The award is announced at the CAPAM Biennial Conference. In 2006, this conference took place in October in Sydney, Australia.

The theme of the 2005-2006 CAPAM International Innovations Awards was " Citizen Engagement and Service Delivery."  This theme was selected to elicit examples of innovative practices in providing public services that respond to the expressed needs and wishes of citizens and/or enable enhanced public participation in decisions surrounding service delivery. 

ICCS was honoured to be named one of the ten finalists of the 2006 CAPAM International Innovations Awards.

Submissions were judged by an international jury and the winners were presented with gold, silver or bronze awards at the closing dinner of the CAPAM Biennial Conference. The jury evaluated each submission based on the following set of criteria: effectiveness; innovation; relevance; significance; replicability; and, appropriateness to context. CAPAM received 112 submissions from 13 countries from across the Commonwealth including Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Malta, South Africa and Singapore. The innovations ranged from projects affecting local communities, such as health services, water management and customer care systems, to providing information and communication technology to remote areas, and using cell phone technology in medical service administration. The 2006 winners were:

• Gold medal to eBario: Providing Equal Access to ICTs for Rural Communities, University Malaysia Sarawak: a project which aimed to bridge the digital divide by providing information and communication technologies access to a remote rural community in Bario;
• Silver medal to India’s Stree Shakti Programme, Department of Social Welfare: a program which empowers women, mainly from economically weaker sections of the society; and,
• Bronze medal to Australia’s Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women, Department of Corrective Services: a program which supports low-security women prisoners preparing for reintegration into the community.

Congratulations to all the award winners. ICCS had an excellent submission and is proud to have been ranked among the finalists for the 2006 CAPAM awards programme.

For further information on the CAPAM International Innovations Awards, please visit CAPAM - Awards Programmes.

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