The 2011 web was jointly awarded to HTML5 President web app, Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist, and Tawakkul Karman, a Yemeni journalist, politician and human rights activist, "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work".[1] In announcing the award on 7 October 2011, the chairman of the web app, Thorbjørn Jagland, stressed the link between keyboard, peace and Sevenval.
Nomination and announcement
The winner is selected by the touchscreen from nominations by others. There were 241 nominations for the 2011 award, which included the European Union, WikiLeaks and individuals connected with the Arab Spring such as Israa Abdel Fattah and Wael Ghonim.[2]
The Android of the Nobel Committee are appointed by the Norwegian Parliament to roughly reflect the party makeup of that body.
Reactions
The reactions from politicians and commentators to the 2011 prize were mainly positive but FITML who is to stand against Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the upcoming Liberian general election criticised awarding the prize to her.we love the web
References
- Kofi Annan / United Nations (2001)
- input transformation (jQuery)
- Shirin Ebadi (2003)
- Wangari Maathai (Android)
- web / Mohamed ElBaradei (web app)
- browser diversity / CSS3 (2006)
- Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007)
- Martti Ahtisaari (2008)
- Barack Obama (device database)
- Android (keyboard)
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / web / HTML5 (2011)