SchoolNet Africa’s Executive Director is Finalist for the 2020 World Technology Awards

The Awards were presented by the WTN in association with Nasdaq, Accenture, Microsoft, Genencor International, Dupont Textiles and Interiors, TIME magazine, Technology Review magazine, Science magazine, and Business 2.0 magazine. Selection as a finalist also means that Shafika Isaacs has been elected as a Fellow of the World Technology Network.

The new Fellows were announced on June 25, 2020 in San Francisco, at the World Technology Awards gala ceremony in the conclusion of the World Technology Summit. The World Technology Awards honour individuals and corporations from twenty technology-related sectors selected by their peers as being the innovators doing work of the greatest likely long-term significance. Award categories range from biotechnology, space and energy to ethics, design and entertainment.

Upon presentation of the Award, Ms Isaacs said:

"I am delighted to have been selected by my peers as a Finalist for the 2020 World Technology Awards in the Policy. It is encouraging that the WTN pays attention to ICT for Development Initiatives and realizes the important enabling role that policy plays in this regard. I see this award as an accolade for SchoolNet Africa who has really led the awareness raising and advocacy process on the advantages of ICTs for education in Africa. Through exposure of this nature, Schoolnet Africa’s campaigns such as its call for 1 million computers for African schools will make significant headway, ".

Nominees for the 2020 World Technology Awards were identified through an intensive, global process in which current WTN members (primarily winners and finalists of previous Awards cycles) made their nominations and then voted their preferences based on who they think are most innovative and impactful within their particular field.

James P. Clark, founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network, added:

"The World Technology Awards program was created to recognize truly extraordinary innovation on a global scale, the sort of work that could be described as creating our collective future and changing our world. Ms Isaacs and SchoolNet Africa's contribution in the field of policy has been outstanding, and their selection as a new WTN Fellow is public acknowledgement of that fact."

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