The Australian Capital Territory recipients of the 2023 Geospatial Excellence Awards were announced on 16 November at the Geospatial Council of Australia’s ACT Geospatial Conference and Awards Dinner.
The Awards, formerly the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards, are presented on a state/territory basis, with the winners going into the running for the prestigious annual Oceanic awards.
This year’s ACT recipients are:
- Environment and Sustainability Award: Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), Geoscience Australia, Emergency Management Spatial Information Network Australia (EMSINA), and the Minderoo Foundation for the National Bushfire Boundaries Dataset
- Geospatial Enablement Award: Geoscience Australia for National Positioning Infrastructure Capability
- Community Impact Award: Australian Spatial Analytics and the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Smartraveller Mapping – Delivering Community Impact Utilising a Neurodiverse Workforce
- Innovation Award for Medium-to-large Business: Geoscience Australia, FrontierSI, Industrial Science Group, Curtin University, University of Newcastle and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology for Ginan – GNSS Analysis Centre Software
- Workforce Development and Inclusion Award: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Location Inter-Departmental Committee Members for APS Geospatial Joined-Up Recruitment
- Professional of the Year Award: Lisa Bush
All of the state and territory awards have now been handed out, and each of the recipients will now be in the running for the prestigious Oceanic competition, the winners of which will be announced at the Locate Conference in Sydney in May 2024.
You can check out the other state and territory winners at these links:
