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And The Winners Are…

Submitted by Aafreen Kidwai on November 30, 2011 - 9:40am.

After four months, 426 entries, four rounds of judging, and a ton of infectious creativity (just like on “Sing-Off”!), Ashoka Changemakers has announced the four winners of Citizen Media: A Google Innovation Competition . Congratulations to FreedomBox , Crowdvoice.org , Discover and Share One True Story One Bite at a Time and 5th Pillar – chosen by popular vote from among 11 finalists.

The Citizen Media winners are:

• 5th Pillar – Empowering Citizens to Tackle Corruption (India): 5th Pillar's anti corruption tools empowers EVERY citizen to be a corruption buster.

• Crowdvoice.org - Tracking Voices of Protest (Bahrain): CrowdVoice offers a new way to view, share, moderate, and organize information about human rights movements and demonstrations.


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