Awards
Media and Awards
OrphanIT- Finalist-Stockholm Challenge Award May - 2004
Nearly 900 projects from 107 countries entered the Stockholm Challenge Award 2005.
| The international jury, consisting of senior experts from all corners of the globe selected the winners in a grand ceremony in May 05. OrphanIT was a Stockholm Challenge finalist in 2004. More Details |  |
11 youth projects win 'CyberOscars' including OrphanIT - Dec - 2003
Cambodian Telecentre initiative - DigitalDivideData bags top award. Ten other projects honoured. Geneva, Switzerland: 9 December 2003
A project to connect disadvantaged Cambodian youth to the global market place through information and communications technologies (ICTs) has won the top award in this year's Cyber Oscars for youth projects
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The award winner, DigitalDivide Data (DDD), is a Cambodian-US company whose operations are entirely based on ICTs. It provides data entry services to companies and institutions in the US and Europe.
Inputs received as digital images are processed according to client specifications and sent back by DDD's staff - all of whom are under 25, and are orphans, physically disabled or trafficked women. More Details
CyberOscars
The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) - a worldwide network of governments, donor agencies, private sector companies, NGOs and international institutions committed to harnessing the potentials of ICTs for development - has collaborated with the Youth Creating Digital Opportunities (YCDO) to select the winners from a worldwide selection process.
OrphanIT wins Global Junior Challenge 2002 1st prize award
| OrphanIT and GLOW ICT centres were 1 of 2 prize winners from more than 500 entries worldwide in The Global Junior Challenge recently.. More Details |  |
A joint panel comprising the Global Youth Incubator, Digital Youth Consortium & corporate donors selected the finalists who undertook a scholarship at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University in the USA in May 2003.
Details about the Global Junior Challenge Global Junior Challenge Winner
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Early Awards
June 2nd, 2002 - SolvePoverty.com nominated as one of web's TOP 365 sites of the year on Cool Site of the Day 2002. “The Cool Site of the Year Awards is the arbiter of taste on the Internet.” -The New York Times.
If you are a teacher, mentor or student participating in a telecentre (computer centre) program in a developing country or community and are seeking information & resources about youth employment opportunities, please click the links on the right hand side to find out more about making your telecentre sustainable.
Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program Launched
2007 - Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) Executive Committee Chairman Walter Fust officially launched a new youth programme designed to encourage young leaders to be a catalyst for positive change and to serve as role models in their societies.
The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a unique programme designed to support projects by young people who use innovative solutions to address social problems like Idea!s is doing in the Philippines. Phase 1 is now underway and the fellows have received their first grants. Their Mentoring is also underway.
The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a project of the Global Knowledge Partnership, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). It was developed by GKP members MITRA, Orphan IT, TakingITglobal and Thai Ruralnet with the facilitation and oversight of the Global Knowledge Partnership Secretariat.
Help coach one of the 8 YSEI fellows in South East Asia. You can make a big difference with your knowledge! Become a volunteer mentor by applying below....
If you are an entrepreneur, business person, retired, still working or just someone who believes they have knowledge and business skills that would be useful to youth led, social business ventures in developing nations then consider becoming a part time YSEI Mentor.
Please complete the mentor application form here so we can match you up with one of the fellows. We have projects underway in India (3), Bangladesh (2), Philippines (2) and Timor Leste (1). You can view the 8 YSEI fellows projects here
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