January 26, 2004
Winners to be announced on 24 February 2004 at 3GSM World Congress
London, 23 January 2004 – The shortlist for the 2004 GSM Association Awards is announced today.
Two rounds of judging lasting more than a month were required to evaluate and shortlist the contenders for the ninth GSM Association awards, as the event continued its tradition of getting bigger and better every year. The winners will be announced at the 2004 GSM Association Awards dinner on 24 February in Cannes, France.
Full details of the nominees are available on the GSM Association Awards web site:
http://www.gsmworld.com/awards/nominees.html
While all the categories created lively debate among the judges, the Vodafone-sponsored Mobile in the Community section created the most discussion. “It is becoming increasingly apparent how GSM is having an increasingly significant socio-economic impact across the world - enhancing, changing and saving the lives of people globally,” commented Conway.
At the Awards ceremony on 24 February the winner of the GSM Association’s coveted Chairman’s
Award, sponsored this year by Fortune Magazine, will also be announced. Established to recognize outstanding achievement in the promoting of GSM, last year’s award was presented to Sir Christopher Gent of Vodafone Group Plc.
Owasys is Nominee in the Mobile in the Community – Best Use of Mobile – Special Needs - Sponsored by Vodafone. A new category for the 2004 Awards, this focuses on the work being done by the mobile industry to make beneficial products and services more readily available to those people with special needs, and aims to raise industry awareness of the developments, initiatives and progress in the area of special needs.