09 October 2009

To Be Worldwide wins 1st Prize in Global Junior Challenge

The Global Junior Challenge is an international competition rewarding the most innovative projects employing cutting-edge ICT technologies in the field of youth education and training. ?The competition, promoted by the City of Rome, is an initiative designed and organized by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to promote an inclusive knowledge society.

The GJC is a unique opportunity to reflect on the importance of the challenges facing education in the 21st century and the role of technology in social integration, development and the demise of poverty worldwide.

The competition is supported by Microsoft and is open to everyone: associations, public and private institutions, cooperatives, schools, universities, companies and individuals of any age from all around the world.? This year the competition received 456 applications out of which 12 winners were selected.

Laura Marsilio, Rome City Councillor for Schools, Family and Infancy presented the statuette of the Etruscan she-wolf with Romulus and Remus to the winning projects in each category.

Alfonso Molina (Professor of Technology Strategy at the University of Edinburgh and former chairman of the International Jury of Stockholm Challenge), Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, presented the Small Fund Awards.

The Small Fund Award, a small fund reserved for projects from the poorer areas of the world, went to:

Takoradi Educational Resource Centre, Ghana
Ict4d Research and Resource Centre in the Rural Rwenzori Region , Uganda
Education in the prevention in Aids in the Andean Region and Caribbean, Peru

The organisation had invited Mrs Georgina Djameh, the Ghanaian Ambassador to Italy, on our behalf to attend the ceremony. We were very honored that she and the First Secretary Mr. Aikins Abrokwa, wereÂ able to join us on stage to receive the award.

Prior to the awards ceremony there were 2 days of sessions and an exhibition in which organisations could share their experiences. We were also guests at an open-air concert in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II organised by the Global Junior Challenge.

We are very proud and honoured to have won this prestigious award and cherish receiving such recognition for our work. We would very much like to share this all who have supported us over the years.