WTN 2006 Prize Nominations

WTN 2006 Environment Award Nominations

Click here for 2006 nominations:

2005 Nominations:

Hans Monderman, Netherlands

Mayor Lee Myung-Bak, City of Seoul

2004 Nominations:

Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities

Mayor Ken Livingstone, City of London

2003 Nominations:

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 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 WTN describers the Awards in these words:

"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:

2005: Mayor Lee Myung-Bak, City of Seoul, South Korea
2005: Hans Monderman, The Netherlands (Invited as guest speaker)
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).

About the World Technology Network

The World Technology Network (WTN) is a cross between 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.

WTN brings key players together - from the most cutting-edge technologists to the most forward-thinking financiers, from the most conceptual futurists to the most grounded entrepreneurs, from the most insightful science writers to the most savvy marketers, from the most big-picture government officials to the most focused policy analysts, and from the world's leading corporations to the world's newest start-ups - helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have.

WTN exists to "encourage serendipity" - the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions. WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members (and others) to help make connections amongst them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies. WTN also seeks to provide useful information and provoke action through its publications.

The World Technology Awards are presented each year to the outstanding innovators from each sector within the technology arena, both as a way to honour those individuals and as a vetting process 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.