Geneva, May 16, 2007 – the leading United Nations agency--the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva, awarded the World Information Society Award to the Mozilla company in 2007.
The ITU World Information Society Award praises individuals or institutions for significant contributions that improve or strengthen a people-centered, development-oriented and knowledge-based information society. The ITU chose Mozilla for its outstanding contribution to the development of world-class IT industry.
Mozilla’s CEO and president showed up in Geneva to accept the award on behalf of the tens of thousands of contributors to the Mozilla Project. “This award is shared by hundreds of thousands of advocates, tens of thousands of contributors and approximately 100 million end-users,” said Mitchell Baker in her address to World Summit on the Information Society. “Mozilla is a global community of people who believe that openness, innovation and opportunity are key to the continued health of the Internet.”
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