Mozilla awarded the World Information Society Award

The International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency for information and communication technology has awarded the Mozilla Corporation with the World Information Society Award "for its outstanding contribution to the development of world-class Internet technologies and applications." 

The award was received by Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation CEO."We enable people to build software, to make that software fit local circumstances, to vet the quality of our software, and to modify and improve that software. We create infrastructure through which groups of people organize themselves to improve the Internet.", she said during the award acceptance.

First Lady of the Dominican Republic, H.E. Dr Margarita Cedeño de Fernández and Professor Mark Krivocheev were also awarded the World Information Society Award for her outstanding personal contribution towards building an inclusive and equitable global information society and his lifetime achievements in the technical development of television services and systems, respectively.