Wikipedia founder gets cash award for democratizing knowledge - Rare award given to Jimmy Wales | TechEye
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has been given a monetary award for developing the online user-based encyclopedia.
The Im Grueene Foundation awarded Wales the Gottlieb Duttweiler Award, which comes with 100,000 Swiss Francs ($104,000), saying that he deserved the prize for “democratising the access to knowledge,” which it said was “man's most important resource.” ..."