The World Economic Forum, that elite business forum that we all love, announced a few weeks back his list of 47 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers for 2007. The companies products include microscopic pill cameras, bio sensors that localize landmines and implantable medical devices for the treatment of brain tumors and software. The companies are classified in four categories: Biotechnology/Health, Energy, Photographs and Information Technology.
I was happily surprised to see the Mozilla and Alfresco open source projects listed. There is an interview with Mitchell Baker where she explains briefly the objectives of Mozilla foundation and similar interview with John Newton from Alfresco.
It's cool to see open source projects listed everywhere. However, I find it more interesting when open source projects are mention in materials done by public institutions as a result of a peer reviewed method.