The Internet has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for 2010.

The nomination was made after a petition by the Italian version of Wired Magazine, which cited the Internet’s contributions to “dialogue, debate and consensus through communication”. Signatories include Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi, and organizers say the nomination will make for a legitimate entry. [source] Nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize reportedly include a Russian human rights group and a Chinese dissident. [source]

Alfred Nobel, prize founder, included in his 1895 will  that “peace prize should reward efforts to promote fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies.” [source]

I think this is the first time an inanimate object actually got nominated to this prestigious award. Indeed, the Internet had been instrumental in assisting  a number of  political and social issues. Blogs and forums allowed topics and various opinions to be posted and read out there  forming citizen journalism; Twitter and Youtube had become tools to quickly send and spread out messages from war stories in the Middle East, the state of the election in Iraq to Haiti’s plea for help.

The Elders of the Internet must be very proud. ^_^ {The IT Crowd}