Industry Awards

Innovation and Commercialisation

This award recognises an individual’s or a corporation’s contribution to spatial science research and/or technical innovation. It may be conferred for a specific project or for an innovative solution to a technical problem.

People and Community

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

Environmental Sustainability

This award recognises how the spatial sciences help to resolve natural resource issues such as managing scarce water resources, water property rights, biota rights, salinity management or any issue in an environmental context.

Land Titling and Development

This award recognises how innovative or unorthodox techniques, delivery mechanisms and/or methodologies in surveying, mapping, cartography, design, planning or processes has achieved exceptional outcomes.

Infrastructure and Construction

The Infrastructure and Construction award recognises those projects that have contributed to planning, designing and developing construction and/or infrastructure initiatives.

Spatially Enabling Government

Awards are also conferred in the Spatially Enabling Government category. Only government agencies, bodies and/or instrumentalities are eligible to receive this Award, which recognises achievement according to the following criteria:

• Projects that use spatial information and technology to enable and/or improve government productivity, efficiency, service delivery and/or help government agencies integrate ‘customer-centric’ service delivery models