High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The NII Awards was an international awards program designed to recognize excellence and innovation in use of the Internet. The National Information Infrastructure Awards program, later known as the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards, was a non-partisan, private-sector initiative made possible through a collaborative relationship with private and public-sector leaders. The mission of the program was to help the global community realize the potential of a networked society by identifying examples of excellence and helping others learn from those examples.