Sign Up to Stay Informed!
Give us your email address and we'll keep you up to date about the Dirk Award and future recipients!

The Dirk Award

Past Recipients

The following list details Dirk Award honorees for the past 5 years.

2000

Dirk Slater, LINC Project, received the inaugural award for his influence in the social justice technology and organizing communities.

2001

Bill Lester, Engender Health, was honored for his work internationally and with global eRiders.

2002

Teresa Crawford, Advocacy Project, was recognized for nurturing eRiders.net.

2003

Art McGee, Virtual Identity, received the award for his selfless devotion to maintaining the Circuit Riders listserve, moderating it after Tech Rocks departed from their Circuit Rider overseer duties.

2004

Katrin Verclas and Allen Gunn, Aspiration, were honored for creating Penguin Days to bring eRiders and software developers together to discuss Free and Open Source Software. Plus, they were the only two non-recipients still in Philadelphia on the day in question...

2005

Ungana-Afrika was recognized for providing innovative technology support to NGOs in Southern Africa. With its emphasis on technology, social justice, and community empowerment, the small staff of Ungana-Afrika has taken the principles of eRiding to innovative new levels with its trainings and capacity-building workshops and innovative projects such as those focusing on community radio and free and open source software within an African context.

Read more...

2006

Vladimir Petkov (aka Kaladan), Interspace, was recognized for his efforts in spreading eRiding and supporting eRider teams across the globe. Kaladan and his team at Interspace have long been at the forefront of providing Open Source Solutions to NGO's. With Kaladan's help, many Bulgarian NGO's remained open and his model for migrating NGO's to Open Source has been used by many other eRider organizations.

Read more...

DirkAward.org is maintained by the Dirk Award Commitee | Privacy Policy

Contact: info@dirkaward.org