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Yaw Anokwa Named Fourth Annual Winner of $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

Tides Awards 2010 Pizzigati Prize to Yaw Anokwa

Yaw Anokwa

Nation’s top public interest computing honor goes to a software developer  working to make cell phones a powerful resource for social change

San Francisco, April 8, 2010 — Yaw Anokwa, a lead developer on Open Data Kit, a modular set of tools that's helping nonprofits across the world collect data, via mobile phones, on everything from deforestation to human rights violations, has won the fourth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

Darius Jazayeri Named Third Annual Winner of $10,000 Pizzigati Prize

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.