p2pnet - rss feed: Mozilla wins ‘pioneer’ award
p2pnet.net News:- “Jeez guys were you asleep at the beginning of the month” - wonders Jazz in an email.
Well, er, um ….
What was she talking about? That Mozilla was chosen as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
(Anyhow, what took you so long to tell us, Jazz? Just kidding 
Here’s what Firefox Mitchell Baker, leader of Firefox, says on her blog:
The World Economic Forum is a non-profit organization established in Switzerland 35 years ago to improve the state of the world. The WEF tries to affect the global agenda to promote the public interest. It tries to promote “Entrepreneurship in the Global Public Interest.” It has become a highly visible, active organization. Its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland attracts a wide set of members and special invitees.
The last few years the WEF has selected a set of companies as Technology Pioneers. To be a Technology Pioneer, ” . . . a company must be involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and have potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, show the signs of being a long-standing market leader - and its technology must be proven.”
The Mozilla Corporation has been chosen as a 2007 Technoogy Pioneer. This honor recognizes some of the core principles of the Mozilla project - the Internet is a life and society-changing technology; and how individual citizens and consumers interact with that technology is critical. It also recognizes that our technology and our techniques for developing it are both proven and highly innovative, and we are a market leader.
I hope everyone involved with the Mozilla project can appreciate the effects of our work and the voice it gives us for helping develop the Internet in support of the global public interest.
Go Mozilla ! : )
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Also See:
blog - Mozilla Selected by WEF as “Technology Pioneer”, December 4, 2006
