The $7,500 USD APC Betinho Prize is offered to non-profit organisations, community-based groups, coalitions, working groups or social movements anywhere in the world that have successfully used information and communication technologies (ICTs) as an essential ingredient in their development work.

Last year, over 160 inspiring projects were nominated for the prize including a Website recruiting and orienting volunteers to participate in the reconstruction of ex-Yugoslavia; an information network connecting indigenous communities in Mexico; and a child's rights data gathering initiative in Mozambique. The inaugural winner, the Max Foundation, is a life-saving online support network functioning in English, Spanish and Portuguese for the families of children suffering from leukaemia and host of Latin America's first online bone marrow tissue registry.

Nominations for the Prize will be accepted until September 24, 2001. Detailed eligibility criteria and a nomination form are available from the APC web site.