Facebook Award Finalists Announced!

 

Access is excited to announce the three finalists to the $10,000 Access Facebook Award, part of the Access Innovation Prize! All three projects aim to deliver human rights or social good outcomes while utilizing the Facebook platform.

Safecity

Safecity is an online platform to report, map, and publicize public incidents of sexual abuse targeting women.

Mobile Agribiz

Mobile Agribiz App uses SMS and the Facebook platform to help connect farmers with buyers and provide them with pricing, weather, and crop information.

IVR Junction

IVR Junction enables marginalized communities to be heard on the internet through phone-based reporting and automated content updating and sharing on Facebook.

Thanks to our judges for their hard work in evaluating the great submissions we received:

  • Deanna Zandt – Co-founder/Partner at Lux Digital
  • Brett Solomon – Executive Director at Access
  • Matthew Perault – Head of Policy Development at Facebook
  • Cristian Cambronero – Partner & Strategy Director at BigWebNoise

Tune in to RightsCon, where the winner of the $10,000 prize will be announced!