World Business and Development Awards
The International Chamber of Commerce and the United Nations Development Programme announced the ten winners of the World Business and Development Awards last Wednesday (Hat tip: Business Fights Poverty). The companies demonstrated "clear linkages between their core business practices and the contribution they make to achieving the MDGs." You can read more about the winners here. I think my favorite has to be ZMQ Software Systems:
On World AIDS Day, 1 December 2005, under the banner“ Freedom HIV/AIDS”, ZMQ released four mobile games on HIV/AIDS awareness to reach out to millions of people. It was a pioneering initiative to create awareness of HIV/AIDS within grass-root communities. The objective was to make use of the latest mobile technology to help
combat a serious disease. In the span of 15 months, the four games reached 42
million people in India, with a download of 10.3 million game sessions.
On the ZMQ website, you can shoot the HIV, save your village, or take a quiz with Mandela.
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Ryan - your readers may be interested in the recordings we made of some of the key speeches at the event, including by the winning companies: http://businessfightspoverty.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2014886%3ABlogPost%3A14561
Posted by: Zahid Torres-Rahman | Sep 30, 2008 7:20:32 PM
I am the Project Director of Freedom HIV/AIDS. The project is a scoial initiative program of ZMQ Software Systems. To learn more about the Award winning initiative, visit http://freedomhivaids.in
Best Regards
Hilmi
Posted by: Hilmi Quraishi | Oct 26, 2008 2:55:37 PM