APC Press: Prize-winner makes internet access for schoolchildren reality

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Subject: APC Press: Prize-winner makes internet access for schoolchildren 
reality
Date: donderdag 7 november 2002 16:31
From: Karen Higgs <khiggs@...>
To: Karen Higgs <khiggs@...>

NO EMBARGO

PRESS RELEASE

NOVEMBER 7 2002

PRIZE-WINNING PROJECT MAKES INTERNET ACCESS FOR ALL SCHOOLCHILDREN IN
NAMIBIA A REAL POSSIBILITY

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - SchoolNet Namibia, a volunteer-driven
organisation that is working to see all Namibian schoolchildren get
access to a computer and the internet, was awarded the APC Africa Hafkin
Communications Prize for people-centred information and communications
technology (ICT) policy at a ceremony attended by the prize finalists
and other champions of the ICT and development sector in Addis Ababa
this evening. Second place went to the policy programme of Bridges.org,
a research and advocacy non-profit from South Africa that promotes
access to ICT by researching, testing, and promoting best practices for
sustainable technology use.

"Network architecture. Sector liberalisation. Infrastructure. Regulatory