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  Home Featured Sierra Leone Wins 1st Place at ITU Telecom World International Open Contest Sierra Leone Wins 1st Place at ITU Telecom World International Open Contest Featured  /  National  /  Uncategorized  1st November 2011 Tamba Lamin   0 Sierra Leone Wins 1st Place at ITU Tele                                              com World International Open Contest We are proud of one of the sons of our soil Andrew Benson Greene Jr for clinching the 2011 International Digital Innovative Contest. Digital Hope Project   The Digital Hope initiative of the B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone has been selected and recognized as one of the best Digital Ideas and Digital Talent at ITU Telecom World 2011. ‎30 under-25-year-olds + 15 Not-for-profits, and their talented digital staff were invited to ITU Telecom World 11 to deve...

   UN ITU Telecom World 2011 — Open International Innovation Competition That is the power of technology: it can become a bridge across the divides that separate us—bringing together people polarized by geography, economics, and circumstance, and giving them a shared space to imagine, create, and connect. That´s just what technology does. It has the magical wand to bring people polarized by economic status and geographic difference.   I seldom knew (and so do my other Digital World Fellows), that during the intensive last few days of our workshops in readiness for the final ITU International open fray, in Geneva, we could be met with Carlos Slim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim who "as of 2011 is the richest person in the world, for the second year in a row. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso SAB, as wel...

Congratulations to B-Gifted Founder and CEO Andrew Benson Greene from Sierra Leone, who this week, has been featured on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Geneva as one of the shortlisted competitors from over 155 entries. Through an International Open Call for ideas organized by the ITU, the founder’s new and unique initiative for the use of telecommunication technology caught the attention of the international judges. As an “ITU Fellow’, and digital innovator from Sierra Leone `, Greene hopes that as one of the selected talents, he will build his ground-breaking idea at several workshops in Geneva and ‘work closely with the partner Not For Profits, he and other shortlisted winners will pitch their developed ideas to World 11 delegates and also have the chance to pitch to world leaders and win seed funding. At the workshops, the mentors will ensure the ‘developed solution is fit for purpose’. Greene hopes ‘to use his knowledge and skills to make the world...