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2009 Pizzigati Prize Awarded to Darius Jazayeri |
2009 Pizzigati Prize for Public Interest Computing Awarded to Darius Jazayeri
Developer Receives $10,000 Prize for Creation of Free Medical Record System
Used by Health 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 will be awarded 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. Resource-poor communities around the globe have seen significant improvements to their medical care due to the adoption Jazayeri’s application.
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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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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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