[WSIS CS-Plenary] Fwd: Yeomans Award for Local Content

[Laurent Straskraba]

For Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean:

>Yeomans Award for Local Content
>
>The inaugural "Yeomans Award for Local Content" aims to encourage and
>bring to international recognition projects and experiences which
>demonstrate the transformative nature of local content, and the
>methodologies which are used to achieve this in different contexts.
>Local content is the expression of the locally owned and adapted
>knowledge of a community - where the community is defined by its
>location, culture, language, or area of interest. The award is given
>jointly by the Global Knowledge Partnership (www.globalknowledge.org
><http://www.globalknowledge.org/> ) and the Open Knowledge Network.

Please read more about the details here:
http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm?menuid=416

Best regards,
Laurent

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Mag. Laurent Straskraba
Information Society Researcher
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Information Society Representative at UN Youth & Student Association of Austria
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