Two of the UK's hottest digital agencies, Groovy Gecko and Tango Zebra, are delighted to announce a media first - an online banner ad which incorporates a live webcam - as part of a new campaign for Britain's leading cancer charity, Cancer Research UK (CR-UK).
Surrey's Primary Schools' Earth Summit initiative allows children to make their concerns heard by the decision makers in Surrey and allows them to actively participate in local democracy by feeding their views into Surrey's community planning system. Surrey County Council use streaming media as a powerful delivery tool to get the children's message across.
Surrey County Council have been working with Groovy Gecko for the last 4 years to ensure that best of breed technology, expertise and experience from big business is being used effectively by the County and making a direct impact on day to day lives of its residents."
The 2006 Internet Service Providers' Association Awards (ISPA's) turned out to be an especially groovy night for a London based streaming service. Groovy Gecko walked away with the coveted 'Best Streaming Service' award after entering the running for the first time in the company's history.
The awards ceremony was held on 23 February 2006 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London.
http://www.ispaawards.org.uk/categories/streaming_service.htm
An eGovernment technology successfully developed in the UK has been identified as European 'best of breed' and is to be trialled across EU member states in a major eParticipation project.
Groovy Gecko's partners Public-i have been providing webcasting systems to the public sector for the past four years. Now, as part of a successful consortium bid under the eTEN programme, the public-i package of a fully hosted webcasting service incorporating the public-i software and methodology is to form the basis of eParticipate, an 18-month European-wide validation project www.eparticipate.org.
