Wildlife Center of Virginia Receives
2004 Computerworld Honors
21st Century Achievement
Award
Judged best IT application in the world in
Environment, Energy & Agriculture
Washington, D.C. - On Monday,
June 7, 2004–Wildlife
Center of Virginia received the coveted 21st-Century
Achievement Award last night from the Computerworld
Honors Program for visionary use of information technology
in the category of Environment, Energy & Agriculture.
John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems nominated Wildlife
Center of Virginia in recognition of its contributions
to the global information technology revolution
and its positive impact on society.  This year's awards, in ten categories, were presented
last night by Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman
of International Data Group, and Maryfran Johnson,
editor-in chief, of Computerworld, at a gala event
at the National Building Museum, attended by over
500 guests, including leaders of the information
technology industry, former award recipients, judges,
scholars, and diplomats representing many of the
53 countries from which the 16-year-old program's
Laureates have come.
The following is a short summary of the award-winning
case study:
A world-renowned teaching hospital for wildlife
medicine was advanced e-learning technologies to
educate students in Africa and South America while
constantly monitoring domestic wildlife for new disease
epidemics.
The case study about Wildlife Center of Virginia,
together with the case studies from the other winners
and Laureates of the 2004 Collection, is available
on the Computerworld Honors Program Archives On-Line,
www.cwheroes.org, and also distributed to more than
134 members of the Computerworld Honors Global Archives.
From more than 300 nominations submitted this year
by the 100 industry chairmen and CEO's who serve
on the program's Chairmen's Committee, 250 were honored
as Laureates at ceremonies in San Francisco, on April
4, 2004, when their case studies officially became
part of the Computerworld Honors 2004 Collection.
Of these, 56 Finalists were chosen by a panel of
distinguished judges to attend last night's gala
in Washington, D.C., at which 11 were announced winners
of the award.
Honorees were celebrated for their significant
achievements in the use of information technology
to benefit mankind across the following 10 categories:
Business and Related Services; Education and Academia;
Environment, Energy and Agriculture; Finance, Insurance
and Real Estate; Government and Non-Profit Organizations;
Manufacturing; Media, Arts and Entertainment; Medicine;
Science; and Transportation.
"Recipients of the Computerworld Honors 21st-Century
Achievement Awards represent those organizations
whose use of information technology has been especially
noteworthy for the originality of its conception,
the breadth of its vision, and the significance of
its benefit to society," said Daniel Morrow,
Executive Director of the Computerworld Honors Program.
This year's collection includes innovative applications
of technology from 36 states and 26 countries. Additional
information about the 2004 Collection is available
at www.cwheroes.org, where the entire collection
is available to scholars, researchers and the general
public.
Each year, the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee
nominates organizations who are using information
technology to improve society for inclusion in the
Computerworld Honors Online Archive and the Collections
of the Global Archives. The Global Archives represents
the 134-plus institutions from more than thirty-five
countries that include the Computerworld Honors Collection
in their archives and libraries.
Founded in 1988/89, the Computerworld Honors Program
searches for and recognizes individuals who have
demonstrated vision and leadership as they strive
to use information technology in innovative ways
across ten categories: Business & Related Services;
Education & Academia; Environment, Energy & Agriculture;
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate; Government & Non-Profit
Organizations; Manufacturing; Media, Arts & Entertainment;
Medicine; Science; and Transportation.
For further information please contact:
Emily Seal
Archivist and Diplomatic Liason
Computerworld Honors Program
(703) 481-1804
frank@cwheroes.org
http://www.cwheroes.org/briefingroom
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