The online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which contains over 37 million articles written in 288 languages by volunteers around the world, has been honored Wednesday with the Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. The jury highlighted the “daily” growth of the web, created in 2001, and compared with the “encyclopedic spirit of the seventeenth century” because its “democratic, open and participatory model in which thousands of people selflessly collaborate all nationalities, has managed to make available to everyone the universal knowledge. “
The jury has defined the project as an” important example of international cooperation. ” Its president, the former Minister of Education and Defense Gustavo Suarez Pertierra, said that it is “a safe future that blends modernity and incorporating new technologies value.” The former Portuguese prime minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão, also a member of the jury, stressed that rewards “civil society, not an official institution, but something created by the citizens.”
At the award, which it is endowed with 50,000 euros and is awarded to those “whose work in areas such as public health, universal education, environmental protection and social and economic development constitutes a significant contribution at international level”, chose a total 24 candidates from 10 countries. Among the applicants included, for example, Unesco, the Spanish Armed Forces and the European Space Agency. Last year won the award for the Fullbright Foundation, promoter of international scholarships program.
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