Winners at the SocITM 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Awards

We’re delighted to announce that our project in partnership with the London Borough of Redbridge, the Ilford Blueprint (visit the website or download a Case Study (PDF)), has won a Socitim 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence at the Socitim Annual Conference in Brighton. The competition highlights public sector IT projects that improve the efficiency and delivery of services within local communities.

The Ilford Blueprint Online – which already created a major splash at the Property Lynx conference – is a web-based marketing tool that incorporates 3D visualisation of development potential in the borough using Virtual Viewing’s Massive Scale Modelling technology. Socitm said the project team has combined web based commerce and gaming technology with planning policy and regeneration, to promote development opportunity sites identified in Ilford’s Area Action Plan.

Judith Carlson, project manager for regeneration at the London Borough of Redbridge, said the project represented a “cutting edge approach to promoting Ilford, the borough’s main town centre, with technologies widely used in the film and gaming industries that brings the council’s vision to life”. And she applauded Virtual Viewing as making the Ilford town centre area action plan “more accessible by developing a user-friendly interface for developers”.

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