Bill Drayton has won the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation Games

Bill Drayton, the founder of Ashoka network of social entrepreneurs, was awarded the prestigious 2011 Prince of Asturias International Cooperation Prize on Wednesday.

Drayton, who was born in New York in 1943, has long been actively involved in various initiatives to bring about social progress.

Of: Martin Luther King, Gandhi and the Indian Emperor Ashoka in the third century BC, thought the followers of Drayton travel in the mid-80s who advocated the establishment of the network to promote grassroots initiatives to meet the needs of the community in the whole of India and Indonesia.

In the Ashoka network is based on the idea, the need for change in society everyone is a "changemaker." It is based on each person's basic goodness and their ability and capacity to facilitate the necessary change of heart.

Drayton was elected 25 from Brazil, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, the United States and Spain's nomination.

International Cooperation Award is the annual Prince of Asturias Award for the eight sixth published this year.

Each laureate will receive 50,000 euros, from Miro, a diploma and insignia donated sculpture.

The award was presented in October, a grand ceremony in the northwestern city of Oviedo, Spain's Prince of Asturias presided.

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