Some interesting award winning IT projects

10 agency IT projects take 2012 GCN Awards (via GCN)

By Paul McCloskey Aug 17, 2012 Ten government IT projects showing ingenuity in connecting citizens with government as well as creative ways of meeting the growing demand for information-sharing tactics and tools have been named winners of the 2012 GCN Awards for IT achievement. The winning projects…

Klagenfurt, Austria - a scannable kind of library

I have been interested for quite a while in location based library resources. My library is wherever I can reach it with a mobile or a portable device. It may also be in a building, but it is nice when is it not restrained by a building too.

Having options are great, plus by having location based library resources it allows me to serendipitiously discover exciting things about my community, reading ideas, local studies images and stories, participate in location based games...and these are only the start.

Klagenfurt, in Austria, a town without a public library has recently introduced location based scanning of library resources in the downtown area.

 It is a location specific experience, and the designers of this resource are willing to share, with the information likely to be available soon. This is an exciting development to watch, as part of a whole library service.

 You can read more about Project Ingeborg.

 There are a growing number of library using QR codes in the community, but there is room for so much more, and the location based access to local studies and connection to local stories is still very restricted. I am looking forward to finding more examples.