Since the crash of internet stocks in the year 2000, it has become apparent that new media is just like any other business. There are good and bad ideas, ingenious and indifferent applications of technology, entrepreneurs and dodgy dealers. This is particularly important to remember when so many new ideas are hitting the market place. To reflect this rapidly moving world, we introduced a new category to the New Statesman New Media Awards: "On the move". This award seeks to find the best use of mobile phone and wireless communications in the public sector.

Over the past year, there has been an explosion in the use of wireless technology, and a "third generation" of mobile phones has been launched. Yet, as excerpts from our survey show (page vii), many of us are unaware of these developments or fails to see how they would benefit our lives. . .

To read the New Statesman special supplement this year's New Media Awards click here.

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