Kids main winners in Internet awards

Children were the main winners in the inaugural Ericsson Internet Community Action (Erica) awards, which help community groups promote their causes over the net. The winners (each receiving $10,000 of web development expertise from Ericsson Synergy) were: Kids Edible Gardens - which aims to expand a Christchurch-based organic gardening programme to schools around the country; Kidsline - one of Lifeline's phone support services, which will create a children's chatroom and give advice over the web; and the Historic Places Trust, which plans to build an online database to help preserve historic New Zealand buildings and sites.