ICT Excellence Awards 2008 - KC3.net Shortlisted

KC3.net is delighted to announce that it has been nominated for 3 of the ICT Excellence Awards categories.

• Best Added Value Product - Addition of ATAG compliance to our acms product range of cms systems
  
• Best Knowledge Transfer - our Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Aston University
  
• Most Improved Business - to highlight KC3.net's massive improvement over the past year, a highlight is our AccredIT UK standard acheivement.

The ICT Excellence Awards recognise and reward the best and brightest SME technology companies and organisations in the West Midlands. The entries will be judged by an independent panel of highly respected individuals as the awards enter their fourth year. The winners will be announced at an Awards Reception at the ICT Annual Conference on 20th November 2008 at the National Motorcycle Museum in Bickenhill, Solihull.

KC3.net has been nominated for the following categories:

• Best Added Value Product - To recognise the added value that the addition of ATAG* compliance to our acms product range of content management systems will provide for our clients and end users. ATAG compliance has been built in to the user interface of our acms system to make it possible for those using accessible technology, such as screen readers, to update their corporate websites. The new functionality has been successfully tested with blind users who have been able quickly "get to grips" with using the acms system, with their screen readers, and with no initial training. This work has been carried out in partnership with Aston University as a part of a knowledge transfer partnership.

*Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines.

• Best Knowledge Transfer - To highlight the many benefits realised by our recent Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Aston University including Aston MSc student, Stuart Leworthy, who has successfully worked with KC3.net to increase the accessibility (ATAG compliance) of our acms product range and in the process gained valuable commercial experience.
  
  
• Most Improved Business - to highlight KC3.net's massive improvement and performance to its ambitious business plan over the past year. Key highlights include our recent achievement of the AccredIT UK quality standard for the Software Design and Development segment, achievement of Government Gateway Alliance Provider approval and an 87% increase in sales.

Quote: We are delighted with KC3.net's progress over the past year and that we have been nominated for these three awards. We also now have a valuable new partnership with Aston University and we look forward to working with Aston again in future to develop new technologies" Jenny Powles, Marketing Director, KC3.net

About KC3.net
KC3.net has kept at the forefront of developing standards compliant systems providing new innovations and efficiencies for both public and private sector organisations UK-Wide. KC3.net is based in Kington, Herefordshire and its experience extends back to 1993 and was one of the first ISP providers in the UK. KC3.net is an employee-owned company formed as a result of an MBO that took place in 2006 resulting in the purchase of IPR and the eBusiness Division from its originating company, "KC3", a social enterprise. KC3.net consists of a team of experts and Board of Directors having over 200 years collective expertise in the evaluation, specification and implementation of IT and engineering projects of all sizes for organisations, both public and private sector.