Tony Zeitoun Award winners in Geneva

Flying in from Bolivia, India and Nepal the winners of the ICT Stories Competition 2003 gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, last December to receive their Tony Zeitoun Awards and present their stories at the ICT4D Platform (a parallel event at the World Summit on the Information Society - WSIS).

From Bolivia, Ms. Giory Osiniga represented winning story 'El correo del agricultor - The farmer's mail'. From India, Ms. Jyoti Jaju and Mr. Sanjay Jaju represented winning story 'Self help groups show the way'. From Nepal, winning story 'Thamel: reducing the social, cultural and economic cost of emigration' was represented by Mr. Bal K. Joshi and Mr. Bob Granger. Both the Indian and Nepalese projects had applied their own funds to sending a second representative to the event.

More on Geneva, with pictures, can be found here.

A 2003 special: GKP joined ICT Stories!

This year the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) partners with infoDev and IICD to support ICT Stories. By bringing the GKP network to the project the input and dissemination channels of the Stories are expanded. But GKP also introduces a significant financial prize for the winner of the Tony Zeitoun Awards; an award for a project most contributing to poverty alleviation. Read more on this cooperation.

ICT Stories Competition - Tony Zeitoun Awards

The respective managements of infoDev and IICD have decided that, as a tribute to the late Tony Zeitoun from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the awards for the ICT Stories competition will become known as the 'Tony Zeitoun Awards'.

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