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We are proud of one of the sons of our soil Andrew Benson Greene Jr for clinching the 2011 International Digital Innovative Contest.
Digital Hope Project
The Digital Hope initiative of the B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone has been selected and recognized as one of the best Digital Ideas and Digital Talent at ITU Telecom World 2011. 30 under-25 year olds + 15.
Not-for-profits and their talented digital staff were invited to ITU Telecom World 11 to develop their ideas into a product pitch, ready for a chance to win a share of a 50K CHF investment. There were over 150 entries from all over the world, and Greene emerged as one of the winners. In Geneva in Switzerland, Greene and other shortlist were put through a presentation of ‘fast and furious pitches’ of their ideas.
The announcement of the 3 winners in each category namely (Young Digital Innovators Categories and the Not for Profit Digital Innovators, came at the Closing Ceremony on October 27th 2011 in Palexpo Area Geneva, Switzerland during the evening of the Awards that sums up ITU’s search for the best innovative ideas around the world.
According to the Founder and CEO of B-Gifted Foundation during his pitches to the international judging panel, “Technology creates a human rights dimension in a way that has never been tested before”. He says the Project aims to use “technologies to help those who are doubly marginalized as a result of their physical indifferences”. He said that “this will bring the amputee victims of war ‘to a journey of hope’ as they use their extra limbs to access technology. These technologies can give them a powerful voice in the mass media, and become an extra ordinary tool, that they can use to bear witness to their plight, thereby bringing about attention, hope and healing to people who are almost forgotten victims”.
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