Internet 'heroes and villains' vie for ISPA awards
News Every year, ISPA praises a "hero" and slams a "villain" at its UK Internet Industry Awards ceremony. The Internet Service Providers' Association has published the nomination lists for the "hero and villain" categories at its annual awards.
[January 15, 2008, 15:54]
EC wins internet villain award
News The Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has named and shamed the internet hero and villain of the year — the most eagerly anticipated gongs at its annual awards bash. The internet villain of the year was awarded to commissioner Vivianne...
[February 19, 2007, 9:43]
BT, Lycos, EU and Vorderman vie for villainy crown
News All five have been shortlisted for the prize of Internet Villain, which will be awarded by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) next year. ISPA, though, believes her "uninformed comments on the Internet industry" mean she could soon...
[December 23, 2004, 13:00]
Viviane Reding nominated for internet villain award
News But the ISPA Council, which drew up the shortlist, was unimpressed by her work, and nominated her for the Internet Villain award, saying she overcomplicated the registration process for the .eu domain.
[January 4, 2007, 15:59]
Sony and the EC vie for Internet Villain award
News The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) and Ofcom were nominated for the Hero category by the ten-person ISPA Council, which has listed Sony BMG and the European Commission in the Villain category.
[December 13, 2005, 16:40]
Internet industry slams villainous data retention
News The UK government walked off with the title of Internet Villain of the year on Thursday night, for pushing for tougher data retention laws in Europe. Previous winners of the Internet Villain award include BT, which picked up the gong in 2001 at a...
[February 24, 2006, 11:05]
Amnesty: ISPs must protect free speech
News The ISPA event also saw European commissioner Viviane Reding awarded the title of internet villain of the year. Speaking at the annual awards dinner held last week by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), Amnesty's campaigns director...
[February 19, 2007, 12:15]
Heroes and villains
Leader Interestingly, one of the most controversial UK internet issues of 2006 has failed to make ISPA's villain list. The UK Internet Service Provider's association (ISPA) has opted for the latter approach, with the release of nominations for its...
[January 5, 2007, 14:28]
Jane Wakefield: Broadband Britain, please stand up
News At the ISPA awards ceremony, attended by 500 of the companies that would love to be part of the government's wired vision, BT was booed and awarded the title of Internet villain. Cable may, as the e-minister and BT are fond of reminding us, pass 50...
[February 19, 2001, 15:28]
Internet villain nominees revealed
News The BBC, music publishers and a disparate group of analysts have been included in this year's shortlist for Internet Villain Award, joining regular nominees that include telecoms regulator Oftel and last year's winner the Home Office.
[December 23, 2002, 8:31]
Verisign wins Internet Villain award
News VeriSign won the most unwanted award on the IT industry's calendar for 2004, after snapping up Internet Villain at this year's ISPAs. In contrast to Linford's appearance and in what has become something of a tradition at the ISPAs -- broken only...
[February 20, 2004, 7:30]
MP wins Internet Hero award
News Other nominees for the Internet Hero award were last year's winner Elizabeth France, the former information commissioner, Secretary of State David Blunkett's son Hugh, APIG, and Home Office official Simon Watkin, who ended up collecting the...
[February 21, 2003, 8:36]
Europe crowned as Internet Villain
News Europe, scourge of the right wing, tasted the wrath of the traditionally liberal Internet community on Thursday night when it was crowned as the Internet Villain for 2005 at the 7th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards, the ISPAs.
[February 25, 2005, 15:25]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Leader Otherwise, come the 2006 ISPAs he could be in the running for the Internet Villain award. Stephen Timms, former e-commerce Minister and closet tech geek, left his post in the DTI five months ago, but it was still heartening to see him remembered...
[February 28, 2005, 11:55]
ISPA awards: Boos for BT and criticism for ISPs
News The glitzy event -- hosted by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) at the London Hilton -- saw managing director of BT Sir Peter Bonfield pick up the special award of Internet Villain. That honour fell to Dave Hughes, president of BT...
[February 8, 2001, 14:53]
Home Office wins Internet Villain award
News Only the UK government could win the Internet Villain award at ISPCON Europe 2002 because the the "evil axis" of UK government agencies -- to use the organisers' words -- had scooped the nominations. Ironically, it is the delay in the full...
[February 14, 2002, 13:12]
HMRC named 'internet villain' of the year
News The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA), which represents internet service providers across the UK, holds an eponymous annual awards ceremony in which it names the "internet hero" and "internet villain" of the year.
[March 17, 2008, 10:36]
Faster than speeding spam - 2004's Internet Hero
News This year's nominees for the ISPA Internet Hero award illustrate the importance that spam, laws and a bit of enthusiasm play in the Internet industry. Announcing the nominations, ISPA said Timms was nominated for "for the enthusiasm he demonstrates...
[December 23, 2003, 12:15]
ISPA's opinions
Talkback We're not condoning ISPA's opinions, just reporting them. Though you're right, 166607, there are some surprising choices there.
[January 5, 2007, 13:21]
