Dimagi selected as a finalist for Legatum FORTUNE Technology Prize

Dimagi is selected to be 1 of 5 finalists for the Legatum FORTUNE Technology Prize, to be awarded on December 1st, 2008.

“The Legatum FORTUNE Technology Prize was founded upon the conviction that sustainable, scalable, technology-driven business enterprises offer the most effective means to promote prosperity and bring people out of poverty.

A prize fund of USD 1,000,000 will be awarded yearly to honor individuals and organizations whose application of technology solutions has demonstrably improved the quality of life among impoverished populations.”  (more)

We are honored to have been nominated and even more so to be selected as a finalist.  We will be presenting to a judging panel on December 1st, and the winner will be announced that night. The other finalists are all solid companies, so the competition should be a great event.