MAV Technology Awards for Excellence

The MAV Technology Awards for Excellence recognise outstanding team and individual efforts in the use of technology to improve service delivery and efficiency to local government organisations or communities.

Winners are recognised during the MAV Technology Annual Conference.

These awards were formerly known as the Local Government Excellence in ICT Awards.

For more information, see MAV Technology.

Past winners

See below for information on past winners.

• 2023 winners
• 2022 winners
• 2021 winners
• 2020 winners
• 2019 winners
• 2017-18 winners
• 2016 winners
• 2015 winners
• 2014 winners
• 2013 winners
• 2012 winners
• 2011 winners
• 2010 winners
• 2009 winners
• 2008 winners

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2022 winners

Customer Experience

• Kingston City Council for “Kingston’s bin evolution – scan it, action it, close it”

Employee Experience

• Hume City Council for “Single Customer View”

Collaboration or Partnership

• Moorabool Shire Council for “Project X–(Naming Conventions)-Moorabool –A Metadata Journey”

Emerging Technologies

• Glenelg Shire Council for “Cultural Collection Protection using Smart City Technology”

Data & Insights

• City of Casey for “Open Data Exchange Platform”

LOLA Australian Achievement of the Year

• Kingston City Council for “Kingston’s bin evolution – scan it, action it, close it”

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2021 winners

Smart City Achievement of the Year

• City of Darwin for “MyDarwin Support Local Program”

Strategy and Planning Achievement of the Year

• City of Casey for “Technology @ Casey – 2020 Strategic Plan”

Presentation of the Year

• City of Melbourne for “Corporate Data Catalogue Project”

Digital Leadership Achievement of the Year

• Yarriambiack Shire Council for “ICT Business Transformation”

Customer Experience Achievement of the Year

• City of Sydney for “Today in Your Village”

Collaboration or Partnership of the Year

• City of Charles Sturt, City of Marion and City of Port Adelaide Enfield for “Collaborative Service Desk”

Victorian Achievement of the Year

• Yarriambiack Shire Council for “ICT Business Transformation”

Australian Achievement of the Year

• City of Darwin for “MyDarwin Support Local Program”

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2020 winners

Smart City Achievement of the Year

• City of Whittlesea, Banyule City Council, Moreland City Council, Mitchell Shire Council and Nillumbik Shire Council for “Northern Melbourne Smart Cities Network, Enabling Data to Drive Change”

Strategy and Planning Achievement of the Year

• Alpine Shire Council for “Project Pinnacle”

Customer Experience Achievement of the Year

• Frankston City Council for “Digital Ways of Working”

Collaboration or Partnership of the Year

• City of Greater Geelong for “Geelong Data Exchange”

Victorian Achievement of the Year

• Alpine Shire Council for “Project Pinnacle”

Australian Achievement of the Year

• Alpine Shire Council for “Project Pinnacle”
• Sunshine Coast Council for “Sunshine Coast International Broadband Network (SCIBN)”

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2019 winners

Smart City Achievement of the Year

• City of Ballarat for “Right to the Night”

Strategy and Planning Achievement of the Year

• City of Melbourne for “GovCare”

Customer Experience Achievement of the Year

• Glen Eira City Council for “Footpath Trading Permits”

Collaboration or Partnership of the Year

• Glen Eira City Council for “Digitising High Priority Transactions”

Victorian Achievement of the Year

• City of Melbourne for “GovCare”

Australian Achievement of the Year

• City of Melbourne for “GovCare”

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2017-18 winners

Smart City Achievement of the Year

• Southern Grampians Shire Council for “Greater Hamilton Community IoT Network”

Strategy and Planning Achievement of the Year

• Hobsons Bay City Council for “Creative Technology Hub”

Customer Experience Achievement of the Year

• Manningham City Council for “Online View, Payments and Lodgement”

Collaboration of Partnership of the Year

• Wellington Shire Council for “EduCloud – Education Cloud Project”

Victorian Achievement of the Year

• Wellington Shire Council for “EduCloud – Education Cloud Project”

Australian Achievement of the Year

• Sunshine Coast Council (Queensland) for planning, design and visualisation of Australia’s first Smart City using 3D geo-spatial modelling

LOLA International Achievement of the Year

• V-ICT-OR (Belgium) for “Integrated Smart City Operating System for Flanders”

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2016 winners

Collaboration of the year

• Bass Coast Shire Council - Free Public WiFi

Metropolitan team achievement

• City of Port Phillip - EPathway Customer Experience Improvements

Rural and regional team achievement

• Southern Grampians Shire - Digital Transformation of a Rural Community: a journey

Individual achievement

• Lorrain Tighe from City of Melbourne - IBM Smarter Cities Challenge 2016

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2015 winners

Collaboration of the year and exemplar award

• City of Greater Geelong, City of Ballarat and City of Melbourne - Local Government Open Data and Fellowship

Team achievement

• City of Boroondara - Mobility Plus

Innovation fellowship

• Corangamite Shire Council - Roadside weed mapping and works tracking app

Service achievement

• Denis Wilson, Moreland City Council - Immediate Past Chair of MAV Technology

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2014 winners

Team achievement

• City of Whittlesea - Councillor Portal Development

Individual achievement

• Richard Barrow, City of Casey for the IT Applications Roadmap

Collaboration of the year

• Corangamite Shire Council - Electronic food sampling app

Innovation fellowships

• Latrobe City Council - Use of Video Capture of Council Activities: $5,000
• Nillumbik Shire Council - Providing Road Grading Information to Residents Online: $5,000

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2013 winners

Team achievement

• Macedon Ranges Shire, Digital Aged Care Assessments project.

Individual achievement

• Les Firth from Yarra Plenty Regional Library for his work in NBN for YPRL

Project of the year

• Moorabool Shire, smartphone-based aged care rostering system

Collaboration of the year

• Nillumbik Shire, IT Policy Management System Implementation

Innovation fellowship

• Cardinia Shire, Transition to Activity Based Working initiative

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2012 winners

Team achievement

• City of Greater Geelong, Roadside Asset Capture Program

Individual achievement

• Dave Barry, Towong Shire Council

Environmental sustainability

• Latrobe City Council, Information Services Team

Innovation fellowship

• Alpine Shire Council, Asset Inspection System

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2011 winners

Innovation

• Frankston City Council, My Address

Individual excellence

• Rod Apostol, Greater Shepparton City Council

Project implementation

• Colac Otway Shire Council, South West Knowledge Hub

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2010 winners

Department / section – organisation and community benefits

• City of Greater Geelong, e-services team

Project team – smart concepts and brilliant execution

• City of Boroondara, Smart Reg project

Individual – commitment, talent and outstanding results

• Adele Evans, City of Greater Dandenong (joint winner)
• Jason Musil, Indigo Shire Council (joint winner)

Outstanding achievement in emergency management

• City of Melbourne (large council)
• Alpine Shire Council (small council)

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2009 winners

Department / section – organisation and community benefits

• Greater Shepparton City Council, Information Services Department

Project team – smart concepts & brilliant execution

• City of Yarra, CITY Project

Individual – commitment, talent and outstanding results

• Maria Pham, Reporting Analyst, Frankston City Council

Outstanding achievement in managing IT disaster recovery

• Boroondara City Council (joint winner)
• Melbourne City Council (joint winner)

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2008 winners

Department / section – organisation and community benefits

• Whittlesea City Council, Mobile Computing Unit

Project team – smart concepts and brilliant execution

• Maribyrnong City Council, Fleet Management Project

Individual – commitment, talent and outstanding results

• Andrew Downie, City of Greater Geelong

Further information

• MAV Technology