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The Pearcey Foundation has announced Rebecca McDonald, Founder and CEO of Library for All, and Sarah-Jane Peterschlingmann, Managing Director and owner of ATech, as joint recipients of the 2022 Queensland ICT Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The awards were presented in Brisbane by Jill Martin, Director of Start Up & Scale Up Programs, Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport.
The Queensland Pearcey Awards recognise outstanding ICT professionals who have demonstrated innovation, taken risks, made a difference and are an inspiration to others in the industry and the wider community. Nominees for the award this year alongside the joint winners were Ali Stokes, Anna Harrison, Britnee Chamberlain, Justin Falk, Maree Beare, Matt Kirby, Petriea Skitek, Tim Hadwen and Thomas Dowling.
Rebecca McDonald
“As founder and inaugural CEO of the non-profit Library for All, now part of Save the Children Australia, Rebecca’s team delivers digital education programs in 14 countries, including Vietnam, Laos, Papua New Guinea and Ukraine. They currently reach over six hundred thousand children every day,” said Paul Gampe, Chair of Pearcey Qld.
Rebecca is an award-winning global authority on the nexus of technology and education for low-connectivity environments. She has spent the last decade leading a team of literacy advocates, authors, technologists and change-makers focused on supplying digital books and educational products for millions of children disconnected from traditional publishing and educational ecosystems. Rebecca’s expertise spans technology-based educational tools for remote communities, software as a service (SaaS) product development, digital-first publishing and distribution of illustrated children’s books, and strategic planning for Save the Children’s global technology and development initiatives. An entrepreneurial humanitarian at heart, Rebecca commits her life to the belief that reading is a basic human right.
Sarah-Jane…..
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