Nominations Open for Nation’s Top Honor in Public Interest Computing Tides Pizzigati Prize will award $10,000 to an open source software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed
San Francisco, Calif. September 12, 2011 – Nominations have now opened for the sixth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the nation’s highest honor for software developers working with nonprofits to help advance innovative social change. Tides is now accepting nominations for this year’s $10,000 prize through October 31. The 2012 winner will be announced in April at the Nonprofit Technology Network annual conference in San Francisco. Each year, starting in 2006, the Pizzigati Prize has accepted nominations for talented and creative individuals who develop open source software products that demonstrate impressive value to the nonprofit sector. Tides welcomes nominations from both developers and the nonprofits who work with them. The most recent Pizzigati Prize winner, Ken Banks, created software that speaks directly to the reality that millions of people globally have only simple mobile phones and no access whatsoever to the Internet. The software Banks has developed turns mobile phones into grassroots organizing tools for everything from mobilizing young voters to thwarting thieving commodity traders. The 2010 Pizzigati Prize winner, Yaw Anokwa, led the development on Open Data Kit, a modular set of tools that's helping nonprofits the world over on a wide variety of battlefronts, from struggles to prevent deforestation, to campaigns against human rights violations. “Software developers like these fill an indispensable role,” explains Tides chief of staff Joseph Mouzon, a Pizzigati Prize judge and the former executive director of nonprofit services for the Groundspring Network for Good. “The Pizzigati Prize aims to honor that contribution — and encourage programmers to engage their talents in the ongoing struggle for social change.” The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Born in 1971, Tony spent his college years at MIT, where he worked at the world-famous MIT Media Lab. Tony died in 1995, in an auto accident on his way to work in Silicon Valley. . Full details on the Pizzigati Prize, the largest annual award in public interest computing, appear online at www.pizzigatiprize.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
