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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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