abevan October 12th, 2009
Given each year by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries initiative, the Access to Learning Award recognizes the innovative efforts of public libraries or similar organizations outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the Internet.
Applications for the 2010 Access to Learning Award must be submitted via an online submission process by October 31 2009.
abevan August 14th, 2007
Applications are invited from libraries and organisations with a mandate to provide public access to information to apply for the Access to Learning Award (ATLA) 2008. The award recognizes excellence and innovation in public libraries and similar institutions in providing access to information through the use of computers and the Internet, at no cost to the user. The recipient will receive a prize of US$1 million. The 2008 brochures (in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) are now available from:
Further information, for example resumes of past recipients and application forms, can be found from the website,
The closing date for the 2008 award is 31 December 2007.
If you, or any of your contacts, have any questions please do not hesitate to contact ATLA at <atla@gatesfoundation.org>