Lifestyle Information Network (LIN) wins Ontario Showcase Merit Award
Toronto, September 20,
2005: The Lifestyle Information Network (LIN) today won an Ontario
Showcase Merit Award in recognition of its outstanding accomplishments.
The Showcase Ontario Voluntary Sector IT Awards recognize the best and
brightest voluntary sector technology projects from all parts of
Ontario. In particular, the Award highlights information technology
initiatives that enhance the effectiveness and impact of voluntary
organizations.
Now
celebrating its tenth year, LIN has led its sector into the Internet
era and demonstrated the true value of online information sharing.
LIN’s web site (www.lin.ca) enables sport, recreation and active living
professionals, volunteers and organizations to access and share their
resources and expertise. In the past year, some 21,000 unique visitors
have used the LIN site, many of them on a weekly basis. Although the
majority of LIN’s users are in Canada, practitioners from every
continent except Antarctica are using the site on a regular basis.
Every day, through a variety of web sites and listservs, LIN’s
information and technology touches more than 4,500 people connected
with the recreation, sport, health promotion and active living sectors.
The
National Recreation Database (NRDB), a unique resource housed on the
LIN web site, contains more than 8,000 unpublished, practical
resources, which would be otherwise unavailable – conference
proceedings, email/ listserv archives, and grey literature.
LIN
has created a set of tools to capture, share and disseminate knowledge
in the recreation, health promotion and active living sectors. Each of
these tools was developed for LIN and has been deployed to LIN’s many
partners:
Showcase Ontario is the largest public sector
information technology education event in Canada. It draws participants
from across the country, and in fact, from across the globe to learn
how to serve citizens better through the use of information technology.
For more information on the Showcase Awards, visit: http://www.showcaseontario.com
For more Information about the Lifestyle Information Network tour our award winning web site at: http://www.lin.ca
Photo by Ben (W.B.) Li