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Nominations Now Open December 1, 2009 |
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Nominations Now Open for Nation’s Top Honor in Public Interest Computing
The Tides Foundation Pizzigati Prize will award $10,000 to an open source
software developer whose work is helping nonprofits succeed
San Francisco, Calif.: December 1, 2009 – Nominations will open this month for the fourth awarding of the $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, the nation’s top honor for software developers whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit sector and ongoing efforts for positive social change.
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2009 Pizzigati Prize Awarded to Darius Jazayeri |
Developer Receives $10,000 Award for Creating
a Free Medical Record System Used by Clinics around the World
San Francisco, CA — April 28, 2009 — The $10,000 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest has been awarded to Darius Jazayeri, a 31-year-old software developer whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the public interest sector and ongoing efforts for positive social change.
Darius Jazayeri accepted his award today, for his creation of OpenMRS, at NTEN’s 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Open MRS is an open source software application that health clinics and hospitals on five continents are now using to keep, share, and track medical record data.
Thanks to Jazayeri’s application, resource-poor communities around the globe have seen significant improvements to the medical care they can offer. |
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A Welcome from Tides Foundation |
We at Tides Foundation are proud to present the first annual prize program in public interest computing. With this prize, the biggest winners are nonprofits working for social change.
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Our Pizzigati Prize Mission |
Software developers who create, for free public distribution, open source applications and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use are making a two-faceted contribution to social change.
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Who can be nominated for the Pizzigati Prize? What does the winner receive? When will our next winner be named? We have some quick answers.
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Three outstanding national leaders in public interest computing have served as judges for the Pizzigati Prize ever since the program's inception. Joining them on the judging panel: each previous year's award winner. The members of our Pizzigati Prize Advisory Panel all play a central role in shaping and administering the prize program.
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