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Deadline Extended in $100,000 Development Gateway Award

Global Competition to Recognize Information Technology=B9s Role in=
 Development


February 15, 2005 =AD The Development Gateway Foundation is extending the
deadline in its global competition to reward outstanding achievement in
using information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve people=B9s
lives in developing countries. The new deadline for this year=B9s $100,000
Development Gateway Award is March 15.

=B3This competition is a global search for excellence, and we are taking=
 every
measure to find the highest-impact application of ICT to win this award,=B2
said Development Gateway Chief Executive Officer Alan J. Rossi. =B3Then in
June, we will profile the winner and runners-up to demonstrate for all to
see the results that can be achieved using ICT to improve people=B9s lives.=
=B2

This year, as the number of Internet users worldwide surpasses the 1 billion
mark, about half of those users will be in developing countries. =B3I=
 strongly
believe that access to ICT can change the lives of the poor dramatically, if
we can ensure access to ICT for the poor,=B2 said Grameen Bank founder
Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2004 award.

Grameen Bank-Village Phone was chosen from over 200 nominees for the 2004
Development Gateway Award, then known as the Petersberg Prize. The award
recognized Grameen=B9s innovation in combining microfinance and mobile
telephone service to help create a new class of women entrepreneurs in
Bangladesh who raised themselves from poverty while providing rural villages
with essential communication services.

For the 2005 competition, please go to www.developmentgateway.org/award
<http://www.developmentgateway.org/award> for more information and
nomination forms. Nominations already submitted can continue to be updated
at this site.



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