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Design for the Other 90% Wins

Webby Awards

For the second year in a row Cooper-Hewitt wins a Webby, the “oscars” of the internet! Congratulations to our very talented web creator, William Berry, for his amazing work.

This Web site, Design for the Other 90%, is the official Webby Award Winner for Cultural Institutions. Hailed as the “the Internet’s highest honor” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Web sites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. This years Webby Awards received a record 9,500 entries from over 60 countries worldwide.

About the Author: Cynthia E. Smith is Curator of Socially Responsible Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

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  1. Dear Folks,

    Bandwidth in Central/East Africa is atrociously poor and expensive
    ($2,500/1Mbs).

    Can I make arrangements with you to download the entire other90 website, including locally stored video/audio files to drives that I will place in Uganda?

    I am setting up free wireless broadband municipal area networks in various African countries, starting with Kampala-Entebbe.

    My background: I was co-founder and CEO of bioinformatics company Pangea Systems/DoubleTwist which annotated the Human Genome in 1999, and which published it for free to academics and thereby blocked Celera from patented the whole genome.

    I am also an adviser to the President of Uganda on a number of matters; and do some visiting lecturing at Makerere University.

    thanks and best regards,
    Joel Lloyd Bellenson

    Joel Bellenson | May 21, 11:15 PM

  2. Joel, thanks for your interest in the Web site. I work at Cooper-Hewitt and developed the Web site.

    That is very expensive indeed and I think your solution is terrific. However, we do not have a way to package up the site because of technical reasons.

    Does anyone out there have any advice for Joel? Are there ways to archive a site and make it available offline?

    Many thanks.

    William Berry | May 23, 11:40 AM

  3. “Design is changing the world” were the five allotted words William Berry gave on accepting his second Webby award last evening in New York. The website has been an incredibly valuable educational tool reaching multitudes more people than could ever make it to the physical museum.

    Cynthia E. Smith | Jun 11, 02:05 PM

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