Global Competition Selects 19 Innovative Digital Media and Learning Projects to Share $2 Million

Successful projects will promote learning and participation through a variety mechanisms, including games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, social networks, wikis, and video blogs. The Competition’s challenge to identify different forms of participation, as well as the eligibility of ten countries outside of the United States, yielded a diverse pool of awardees including individuals, a school, community organizations, universities, and for-profit companies. Awards ranged from $9,000 to $211,000. Fifteen winners come from the United States, and the remaining four are from Canada, India, Mexico, and South Africa.