[liberationtech] Announcing finalists (and soon winners) for the Access Tech Innovation Prize

[Brian Duggan]

We also want to say thanks to Access and their hard work on a prize
competition that produced and will support such great projects. Access
chose a fantastic group of finalists and we wish the best of luck to
everyone in the awards ceremony.

Brian


On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Gustaf!
>
> A quick note: Flashproxy was started and is maintained by David Fiefield
> at Stanford University. The Open Technology Institute developed a proof of
> concept that demonstrated that Flashproxy could be easily distributed
> through a Facebook application. OTI's application was strictly to fully
> develop the Facebook application, and David was supportive of our
> application.
>
> We at OTI couldn't come up with a decent name for the Facebook
> application. Just wanted to clarify that David, not OTI, is the primary
> driver behind Flashproxy :)
>
> Brian Duggan
> Technologist
> Open Technology Institute
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Gustaf Björksten <gustaf at accessnow.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> The finalists of the Access Technology Innovation Prize have been
>> announced. The projects selected by the judges as finalists are:
>>
>> Blackout Resilience Award: Briar, Linux en Caja + BogotaMesh +
>> RedPaTodos + Hackbo, Project Byzantium, RePress - Greenhost
>>
>> Making Crypto Easy: Enigmail, GPG Clipboard - Open Technology Institute,
>> HTTPS Everywhere - Electronic Frontier Foundation, LEAP Encryption
>> Access Project
>>
>> Freedom of Expression Award (Golden Jellybean 1): Free Network
>> Foundation, Initiative for China + Tahrir Project, Open Observatory for
>> Network Interference (OONI), Project Gulliver - Greenhost, Storymaker -
>> Small World News and Guardian Project
>>
>> Grassroots Technology Award (Golden Jellybean 2): Flashproxy - Open
>> Technology Institute, Haroon Rashid Shah, Interactive Voice
>> Response-Based Market Information System - Marye, Mengistu Miskir,
>> Maletsabisa Molapo, Reticle - Malice Afterthought
>>
>> Facebook Award: Map Kibera Trust, BigWebNoise, Seven Sisters, Social
>> Media for Democracy
>>
>> For further information on the projects please follow the link below:
>>
>>
>> https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2012/12/04/announcing-the-access-tech-innovation-prize-finalists
>>
>> The winners will be announced this Monday 10th December at an awards
>> party in New York City. All welcome to attend (please RSVP to
>> rsvp at accessnow.org). The official invitation for the awards ceremony and
>> party can be found at the following location:
>>
>> https://www.accessnow.org/TIP-awards
>>
>> All the very best,
>>
>> --
>> Gustaf Björksten
>> Technology Director
>> Access
>> https://www.accessnow.org
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