Tribunal wins Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Award

Peter Bowen (right) receiving the excellence award

Native TitleVision, the National Native Title Tribunal's extranet website, was the clear winner for the community category in the prestigious Spatial Industry Excellence Awards.

In presenting the award Mr Dan Paull, CEO of Public Sector Mapping Agencies, acknowledged both the quality of the product and the Tribunal's submission.

The Judges said Native TitleVison was a perfect demonstration of how organisations with large amounts of spatial information will need to work in the future. They also commented that data for its own sake is great but putting that data into a spatial context that enables users to discover it easily via the internet to make informed decisions is where we need to be.

Geospatial Services Manager Peter Bowen said, 'Many people were involved in setting up Native TitleVision. Congratulations were due to everyone including Tribunal staff, Digital Mapping Solutions and government agencies that had made their data readily available.'

The Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards recognise industry excellence and celebrate the achievements of spatial information enterprise and professionalism.

The community award recognises companies or products making a difference to a community through 'grass roots' initiatives, educational programs, new services, extension programs and/or tools that permit the widespread use or access to spatially derived products or services.

Native TitleVision was started in 2004 to provide native title stakeholders with access to geospatial information through an extranet. The system was initially trialled with the Federal Court then successfully launched in November 2004 to a wide cross section of users including case officers, lawyers, native title applicants, judges, administrators and interested parties.

Enquires for access can be directed to geospatial@nntt.gov.au

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