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FACT Social Justice Award: Winners Announced at N2Y4
The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) Social Justice Award has just been announced here at NetSquared's N2Y4 Mobile Conference. A panel of judgest reviewed all the N2Y4 Featured Projects for their potential to address social justice issues. The five awardees* are...
- DatAgro: Increasing the Yield of Latin American Farming Cooperatives
- Digital Democracy's Handheld Human Rights
- FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics
- The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourcing volunteerism via smartphones
- Slave Free
* In alphabetical order
About the FACT Awards
All FACT Social Justice Awardees will receive a cash award of $5,000 each.
In addition to direct financial support through the FACT Social Justice Award, FACT is generously supporting fund development assistance for all N2Y4 Featured Projects.
FACT is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and injustices in our society by helping develop and sustain networks of community-based groups in the U.S. and France that educate, organize, and empower people to actively participate in developing public policies that directly affect their lives.
Learn more about the five winning Projects here:
- DatAgro: Increasing the Yield of Latin American Farming Cooperatives
- Digital Democracy's Handheld Human Rights
- FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics
- The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourcing volunteerism via smartphones
- Slave Free
Check out videos of the Featured Projects on YouTube.
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DatAgro & FrontlineSMS
I have been looking around through various posts here and these two keep popping up. I think I need to do a lot more investigation however I just want to congratulate them on being so recognised in their fields.