AGI Scotland Presents £1000 to winners

07 May 2010, 4:23pm

AGI Scotland Presents £1000 to the winners of the “One Scotland, One Geography Challenge”

At the Trades Hall in Glasgow on Wednesday 28th April, Hugh Barron, Chairman of AGI Scotland, presented £1000 in prizes to the lucky winners of the highly competitive 2010 AGI Scotland Challenge Competition.

Ashley Beamer of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland came top in the ‘most beneficial information service’ category for her ground-breaking ‘Scotland’s Places Project’. The service received popular approval for its efficient amalgamation of distributed multi-organisational geographic data and its demonstration of the ‘publish once use many’ or ‘One Geography’ concept.

In the category of ‘most pragmatic enabling idea’ the prize went to ‘LatYourLife’, a project developed by Edinburgh University students Christopher Barber, Amin Abdalla, Laura Mason and Dimitris Stratoulias. Christopher Barber’s absorbing presentation of a concept that seeks to provide web and mobile access to a geographically enabled standard calendar application clearly captured the imagination of the voting audience.

Hugh Barron, Chairman of AGI Scotland, said: “The AGI was impressed at the diversity of ideas put forward. The GIS market needs the freshness and creativity that young minds can bring.”

About the One Scotland Challenge
£1000 prizes were offered for innovative, exemplary and forward thinking ideas to help Scotland capitalise upon its geography. Submissions requested were for the 'most beneficial information service' for Scotland or 'the most pragmatic enabling idea'.

About AGI Scotland
AGI Scotland is a sub-group of Association for Geographic Information (AGI) focused on the interests of the geographic information community in Scotland. It has its own members committee which promotes the aims of the AGI within the Scottish context and co-ordinates activities with the UK body.

AGI Scotland is currently coordinating a major initiative in Scotland to define a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Similar national and international initiatives are underway.

The objectives of AGI Scotland are:
• to promote awareness on GI and how it could benefit the citizen, commerce and good governance within Scotland
• to gain access to Scottish and UK governments
• to bring together people with an interest in GI within Scotland
• to tune and deliver membership benefits to Scottish members
• to encourage AGI membership at the grass roots level within Scotland

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