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The world's first and only scalable and map-driven platform in the water sector, PWX has received recognition for its design to make a visible dent in the global water crisis. A unique participatory decision-making network of partners, PWX combines people, process, and technology to manage water and sanitation projects around the world - from application, selection, funding, implementation, and impact assessment. Easy to navigate and use through both maps and text, PWX is transparent, efficient, and effective. PWX helps competitors become collaborators, and work together to learn and share and create the greatest impact possible.

Technology now facilitates civic involvement throughout the world, said the State Department's Jared Cohen. In an essay for the Web site Huffington Post.com, Cohen reflected on the lessons of the AYM conference and concluded that "this new ability to connect [online] is leveling the playing field and breaking down previous age, gender, socioeconomic and circumstantial barriers to who can emerge as a leader, activist or grassroots agent for change."