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The Tech Award Laureates are innovators using technology to make the world safer and healthier, more prosperous and just.

Fundacion Terram
Fundacion Terram
2007 Environment Award Laureate
Laureate Country: Santiago, Chile
Website: http://www.terram.cl
Video: 2007Videos/fundacion_terram.mov
Fundacion Terram technology deploys seaweed to absorb the wastes of salmon farming while providing feed for aquaculture. (more)

Blue Energy
blueEnergy
2007 Economic Development Award Laureate
Laureate Country: United States
Project Country: Nicaragua
Website: http://www.blueenergygroup.org
Video: 2007Videos/blueenergy.mov
blueEnergy technology brings renewable electrification and jobs to remote places. (more)

Taking IT Global
TakingITGlobal
2007 Education Award Laureate
Laureate Country: Toronto, Canada
Project Countries: Global with over 150,000 members from over 250 countries
Website: http://www.takingitglobal.org
Video: 2007Videos/takingitglobal.mov
TakingITGlobal technology provides young people worldwide with an online platform for social change. (more)

Diagnostics Development Unit
Diagnostics Development Unit
2007 Health Award Laureate
Laureate Country: Cambridge, U.K.
Project Countries: Australia, China, Ivory Coast, Myanmar, Philippines, Republic of Guinea, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, U.K.
Video: 2007Videos/diagnostics_dev_unit.mov
The Diagnostics Development Unit, together with Diagnostics for the Real World Ltd., invented technology to test for infectious diseases quickly and accurately. (more)

Devendra Raj Mehta
Devendra Raj Mehta
2007 Equality Award Laureate
Laureate Country: Jaipur, India
Project Country: India
Website: http://www.jaipurfoot.org 
Video: 2007Videos/devendra_raj_mehta.mov
Devendra Raj Mehta, Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, engineers ingenious, low-cost technology to provide prosthetic limbs for amputees. (more)
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