WTN 2005 Prize Nomination

WTN 2005 Prize Nominations

2004 Nominations:

Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities

The World Technology Awards for Excellence

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

The World Technology Network (WTN) is a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotech to new materials, from IT to new energy sources) into reality. The WTN's membership is comprised of nearly thousand individuals and organizations from more than 60 countries, judged by their peers to be the most innovative in the technology world. WTN is supported by Microsoft, Philips, NASDAQ, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the MIT Technology Review, Science Magazine, Chevron Texaco, Time, Fortune, CNN, Red Herring, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and Business 2.0.

The World Technology Awards have been presented annually since 2000 to the outstanding innovators from each sector within the technology arena, both as a way to honor those individuals and as a vetting mechanism to determine the newest WTN members. The Awards are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit.

"The World Technology Awards have been created to honour those individual leaders or, at times, co-equal teams from across the globe who most contribute to the advance of emerging technologies of all sorts for the benefit of business and society. We especially seek to honour those innovators who have done work recently which has the greatest likely future significance and impact over the long-term. The WTN awards are about those individuals whose work today will, in our opinion, create the greatest "ripple effects" in the future... in both expected and unexpected ways."

Past winners of the World Technology Environment Award include:

2004: Ken Livingstone, Mayor, London, U.K.
2003: Prof. R. Malcolm Brown, University of Texas Austin, USA
2002: Francis E. K. Britton, Founder, The Commons, Paris, France
2001: Dr. Geoffrey Ballard, Founder Ballard Power Systems Inc., USA
2000: Amory Lovins, Co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute

Other past WTN Award winners include:

Jaime Lerner, Governor of Paraná, Brazil (Transportation)
Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank (Finance)
Elizabeth Ampt Developer, Travel Blending (Transportation)
Tim Berners-Lee, Director, World Wide Web Consortium; (Communications)
Linus Torvalds, Creator, Linux; (Communication Technology )
Dr. Krishna Bharat, Google, Inc.
Dr. Robert Tinker, The Concord Consortium (Education);
Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corp. (Technology).