About the Awards

Open source is changing the way people and organisations collaborate and innovate to achieve common goals.

For New Zealand, open source not only represents an opportunity to contribute and be recognised on the world stage, but also to deliver real competitive advantage to our business sector, show leadership in e-government within the public sector, and to provide more effective tools for community-based organisations as they meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The New Zealand Open Source Awards recognise and promote:

• the contributions of New Zealanders directly to open source projects or the promotion of open source generally
• exemplary use of open source by New Zealand organisations.

The Awards will raise awareness of the open source advantage for New Zealand by telling some powerful success stories based on real achievements that have made a difference already.

This Awards site features both category winners and shortlisted nominations, providing a permanent showcase of New Zealand open source activity and contributions.