October 30, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Four nonprofit organizations and one company were honored by the Tech Museum of Innovation for their creative use of technology to benefit society.
The nonprofit winners, who each received $50,000, were:
- Equal Access, in San Francisco, which uses digital satellite radio and solar technology to broadcast educational programs and information about HIV and AIDS and women’s rights to impoverished areas in Nepal.
- The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, in Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, whose Atta database serves as an electronic inventory for Costa Rican species diversity. The database, which is available online, provides information on more than three million specimens collected by the institute’s scientists.
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, in Seattle, for developing filled, single-use syringes, which are easy to inject but cannot be reused, so injections are always sterile. The Uniject device is currently used to deliver hepatitis B and tetanus vaccines and is being tested for other uses.
- Witness, in New York, for its work distributing video cameras to human-rights organizations around the world, and training activists to use them to document human-rights abuses.
For more information: Go to http://techawards.thetech.org.
