The winners of the 2002 Stockhom Challenge have been announced. The international awards, recognizing public, private, or academic attempts to utilize technology in ways that impact the lives of people while alleviating the effects of the digital divide. 2002 Stockholm Challenge Winners

• e-Government: "The eCitizen Portal. Government Services A Click Away" (Singapore)
• Culture: "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation" (Oxford, MS)
• Health: "Health Information Project" (Watertown, MA)
• Health: "Infomed - Health information network of Cuba" (La Habana, Cuba)
• Education: "Bookshare.org" (Palo Alto, CA)
• e-Business: "Choroc, the Main Part of the Green House of Culture" (Seoul, South Korea)
• Environment: "Local Agenda-21 in the City of Panevezys" (Panevezys,
• Lithuania)
• Environment: "Solar Electrification of Villages in the Himalayas: The Barefoot Approach" (Ajmer, India)

Eight winners in eight categories were selected among 101 finalists, drawn from from nearly 600 projects in 78 countries. THe Stockhold Challenge is administered as a nonprofit intitiative of the city of Stockholm (Sweden) in partnership with the European Commission,