FRIDA 2010

The Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean announces the launch of the FRIDA/eLAC2010 Award

The Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean (FRIDA) has announced the launch of FRIDA/eLAC2010 Award, which seeks to recognize the research initiatives and digital innovation that contributed the most towards the development of Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years.

With this call, candidates will compete for prize money and the chance to present their project at the Third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean to be held from November 21st to 23rd 2010 in Lima, Peru.

The contestants must choose eLAC2010 thematic areas that work best for their initiative (Education, Infrastructure and Access, Health, Governance, productive sectors and policy instruments) and come from one of the four proposed activity sectors (Civil Society Government, Academia, Private).

An online voting mechanism (see link: http://premiofrida.org/eng/projects) will allow identifying those proposals of greater impact. With this aim, each candidate should disseminate his application in order to get votes from his peers, using social media like Twitter (hashtag: # premiofrida). The nominations and public voting will be open until October 16th, 2010. The most voted initiatives will go to the final stage where a committee of independent experts will be responsible for assessing the different initiatives and identify the winners.
 
For more information about the FRIDA/eLAC2010 Award, like the rules and the application form, visit FRIDA Prize in: http://premiofrida.org/eng/

The FRIDA/eLAC2010 Award is made possible thanks to the support of the Internet Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean (LACNIC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Internet Society (ISOC) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).