Stockholm Challenge GKP Award
Writing by admin on Tuesday, 23 of October , 2007 at 9:14 pm
The etuktuk was recently announced the winner of the Stockholm Challenge GKP award! We are grateful for the recognition of the challenge jury, who said the etuktuk was “a project that electronically expands the community center into isolated rural areas.” The award ceremony took place as part of the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
We had a great time at the conference and it was inspiring to see others taking on the concept of the etuktuk. Alcatel-Lucent had their own etuktuk on display. This concept vehicle has already been at several major expositions around the world. Alcatel-Lucent see potential for the etuktuk’s to “enable cost-effective expansion of the broadband footprint” into rural areas. Another etuktuk inspired project was presented at the GK3 conference - the etrike! This is a proposal to build a mobile telecentre to service the urban communities of Manila in the Phillipines. We look forward to working with both these initatives!
For more information on the Stockholm Challenge GKP award please visit the challenge website. http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/news/news/1929
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