FYI
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>Deadline Extended in $100,000 Development Gateway Award
>Global Competition to Recognize Information Technology's Role in Development:
>
>The Development Gateway Foundation is extending the deadline in its global
>competition to reward outstanding achievement in using information and
>communication technologies (ICT) to improve people's lives in developing
>countries. The new deadline for this year's $100,000 Development Gateway
>Award is March 15.
>
>"This competition is a global search for excellence, and we are taking
>every measure to find the highest-impact application of ICT to win this
>award," said Development Gateway Chief Executive Officer Alan J. Rossi.
>"Then in June, we will profile the winner and runners-up to demonstrate
>for all to see the results that can be achieved using ICT to improve
>people?s lives."
>
>This year, as the number of Internet users worldwide surpasses the 1
>billion mark, about half of those users will be in developing countries. "
>strongly believe that access to ICT can change the lives of the poor
>dramatically, if we can ensure access to ICT for the poor," said Grameen
>Bank founder Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2004 award.
>
>Grameen Bank-Village Phone was chosen from over 200 nominees for the 2004
>Development Gateway Award, then known as the Petersberg Prize. The award
>recognized Grameen's innovation in combining microfinance and mobile
>telephone service to help create a new class of women entrepreneurs in
>Bangladesh who raised themselves from poverty while providing rural
>villages with essential communication services.
>
>For the 2005 competition, please go to www.developmentgateway.org/award
>for more information and nomination forms. Nominations already submitted
>can continue to be updated at this site.
>
>Contact:
>Karen Lynch
>tel: +1.202.572.9216
>e-mail: [email protected]
>www.developmentgateway.org
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