The WSIS Challenge Award worth 10.000 Euro goes to the best ICT for Empowerment Project in Africa
Stockholm/Geneva 17 October, 2005. The Stockholm Challenge, with the support of the WSIS Executive Secretariat, has initiated the WSIS Challenge Award, to be announced at the WSIS Tunis Summit on November 17th 2005. The WSIS Challenge Award is open to initiatives in Africa that use ICT to enhance livelihood opportunities, improve living conditions and support economic development. Projects that are eligible to compete should show that they empower people and communities by using ICT in areas such as health, education, government, business, culture and environment. The WSIS Challenge Award is an initiative of the Stockholm Challenge, the world's leading ICT award since 1995. The Stockholm Challenge is a collaboration between Sida, Ericsson, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the City of Stockholm. It is also sponsored by SUN Microsystems and SPIDER, the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions, based at KTH. The award is designed to support the UN Millennium goals of eradicating world poverty. The objective is to stimulate and energize the use of ICT for human and economical development in Africa, by finding and acknowledging the best ICT for Empowerment projects. The winner will receive 10.000 Euro to be used for further development of the projects activities. The donation is made by SPIDER whose mission it is to promote ICT as a powerful means for poverty alleviation and human resource development. The award opens for entries upon its announcement at the ICT4All exhibition, on the Central Place, on November 17 at 18:30. The prize giving ceremony will take place in Stockholm on May 11, 2006 during the Stockholm Challenge final event, in the presence of a large audience, high dignitaries and international media. All projects that wish to compete for the WSIS Challenge Award will be asked to enter the Stockholm Challenge Award, which will have a special file for African participants. To be noticed is, that projects from Africa, already in the Stockholm Challenge, are automatically also competing for the WSIS Challenge Award. An international experts jury will select the winner. For more information, please contact: Ulla Skidén, Project Manager DSV, Forum 100, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden Telephone +46 (0) 70 678 72 82, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.stockholmchallenge.se www.spidercenter.org _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
