From August 22 to 26, 2012, the Awards and Recognitions Ceremony of the Regional Fund for Digital Innovation in Latin America (FRIDA) of LACNIC, which is an International Organization dedicated to contributing to development, was held in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. of the Information Society in our region by financing research projects and recognizing and awarding innovative initiatives in the use of ICTs for development in the Americas.

From the Movicancer Foundation, Mr. Orlando Martínez Granera received this recognition for the development and implementation of Sivipcan® and thanked LACNIC for its interest in highlighting social initiatives that contribute to improving the quality of life of Women with Cancer. He added “Digital information systems can be engines of change in the fight against cancer and be a source of strengthening for health systems in low- and middle-income countries in Latin America.”

The Frida Awards, whose objective is to recognize the best initiatives in the region, opening up to a wide variety of projects and initiatives of different sizes, responding to the interest of identifying existing practices that can be scaled and highlighting good experiences among decision makers region of.

FRIDA is proud to be a member of the “Seed Alliance, helping ideas grow”. Seed Alliance is a new international collaborative initiative to promote innovation and solutions for social development on a larger scale.