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.

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.

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. More Details...

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. 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

“The Cool Site of the Year Awards is the arbiter of taste on the Internet.”

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. Visit Cool Site of the Day