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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Dear Colleagues, <br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">The FIRE Programme Awards acknowledge the
remarkable contributions ICT innovators have made to their
communities by addressing social and development challenges
using the Internet. </font>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">The FIRE programme Awards is granted to
initiatives already completed or in their final
implementation phase and that are aligned with the three
funding categories:</font></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Innovation on
Access Provision</font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">E-Development</font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Freedom of
Expression</font></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">In addition to selecting a winner per
category, we have a Community Choice Award category for the
best social media campaign (the project with the highest
number of votes from the community). This year the community
Choice Award for the project with the best social media
campaign was not allocated.</font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">This year, the FIRE 2013 Award did not
recognise an initiative promoting Freedom of expression.
They will both be back in 2014.</font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">The FIRE 2013 Award has thus decided to reward
a fourth (4) outstanding project under the following
categories:</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Category: <strong>Innovation
on Access Provision </strong></font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Project 1:
Nikohapa Customer Engagement Platform - Organisation:
NIKOHAPA VENTURES Ltd</font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Project 2: An
adapted Mail-Order Pharmacy for the Sub-Saharan African
Developing Countries - Organisation: E-PharmacyNet</font></li>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Category: <strong>Development</strong></font></p>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Project 3:
Empowering African Women and Girls through the use of
informative and interactive online resources -
Organisation: Make Every Woman count (MEWC)</font></li>
<li><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Project 4:
VENAME Platform for the promotion, management and sale of
African cc TLDs through mobile payment - Organisation:
CINETCORE</font></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif">The four (4) winners will receive a cash prize
of US$ 3000 and a travel grant to attend the Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Bali (Indonesia) from
the 22nd until the 25th of October 2013. The 2013 Awardees
will be given a great opportunity to showcase their project,
make professional contacts and participate in discussions
about the future of the Internet.</font></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"> Please <a
href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/950-winners-fire-2013-2">click</a>
here for details on each project.<br>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"> <strong>CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2013 FIRE
AWARD WINNERS!</strong></font></p>
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