The Awards were announced from the stage by James P. Clark, Founder and Chairman of the World Technology Network (“The WTN”) and Poppy Harlow, Anchor, CNNMoney.com. At the same time, Clark officially inducted those who were selected as Award finalists into the WTN membership as newly elected fellows.
Pakistani Dr. Osama joins the ranks of over 1000 fellows across 60 different countries that include individuals such as Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet), Mark Zuckerberg (Founder of Facebook), Larry Page and Sergei Brin (Founders of Google), Vice President Al Gore, and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
World Technology Network is a curated community of some of the most creative and leading scholars and practitioners as well as corporates in various disciplines of science and technology and related fields (such as media, ethics, finance, and public policy) selected by their peers as doing some of the most innovative work of potential long-term impact in the world.
Founded in 2001, the World Technology Network has made annual awards in up to 20 different categories for individuals (and 10 corporate categories). Each year, WTN identifies – through an extensive vetting process nominees for WTN Awards and then selects 5 (or six) finalists who are then inducted as fellows of WTN.
The Winners in each category are announced in an Oscar-style gala event.
The World Technology Awards were presented at the culmination of the two-day World Technology Summit & Awards, convened by the WTN in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, Technology Review, Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), New York Academy of Sciences, and Novartis.
Among other winners of the night were Dr. Alex Dehgan, the first Science Advisor to the USAID and APPLE, AMAZON, SKYPE, 3M, and SpaceX Corporations in various individual and corporate categories.
Dr. Athar Osama won his award for his ground breaking contributions to science and innovation policy in the Islamic World – in particular through a ingenuous and courageous use of new social media and science journalism to create an awareness of and change mindsets about science and innovation policy in the Islamic World.
In his acceptance speech in front of some of the leading scientists, technologists, and innovators and New York’s elite, Dr. Osama made a fundamental point that drives his passion for reviving science and innovation in the Islamic World, “We cannot have a world that is more developed, better, and safer without where 1.5 billion Muslims around the world are unable to benefit from the fruits of science and technology.”
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