Dear All,
Panos and the Global
Knowledge Partnership have launched the "Reporting on the Information
Society" awards. The awards aim to encourage and bring to international
recognition thoughtful and incisive reporting on developing countries'
progress to becoming "Information Societies."
Please feel free to circulate this
information to interested groups and individuals. We also request you to put
this up in your website, if possible. Thanks very much for attention and
cooperation.
Sincerely
Murali
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Murali Shanmugavelan
Communication for Development
Panos Institute
9, White Lion
Street
London, N1 9PD
Muralis@panoslondon.org.uk
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GKP/Panos Media Award
Reporting on the Information Society
Announcement
The
inaugural "Reporting on the Information Society" awards, given
jointly by the Global Knowledge Partnership and Panos,
aim to encourage and bring to international recognition thoughtful and incisive
reporting on developing countries' progress to becoming
"Information Societies."
Four awards
of $2,000 each will be made for published journalism by developing country
journalists (print, radio, TV or web) that goes beyond
describing projects or new investment initiatives to analyse
broader questions such as the social impact of ICTs,
particularly on rural or disadvantaged groups, or national and global
communication policy issues.
The winning
entries will be disseminated internationally and honoured
at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, December
2003.
To submit a
piece of work for consideration, send a clipping, audio or video tape, transcript
or web reference by email to: award@panoslondon.org.uk
; or by post to:
Kitty Warnock, Panos Institute, 9 White Lion St, London N1 9PD, UK
Deadline
for submissions: Oct 15th 2003
For any
enquiries about the award process, contact Kitty Warnock at kittyw@panoslondon.org.uk
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The Panos Institute is an NGO which exists to stimulate debate on global development issues,
including media and communication issues. Panos works
with journalists in developing countries to produce news, features and analysis
about the most critical global issues of today. Panos
works from offices in eleven countries.
The
Global Knowledge
Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network of organizations committed
to harnessing the potentials of information and communication technologies
(ICT) for sustainable development. GKP is the world's first multistakeholder ICT for Development (ICT4D) partnership at
the global level, with members comprising governments, donor agencies, private
sector companies, civil society, networks and international institutions.
Submission criteria and instructions
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Journalists
who are citizens of or living in developing countries may apply.
("Developing country" is as defined by the UN)
§
The work
submitted can be a piece of print, radio, TV or online journalism.
§
Types of
print/web article that will be considered include news reports, features,
analysis, interviews, opinion/think pieces, and editorials. Broadcast pieces
can also include debates and phone-in programmes.
§
Submitted
works should be stories or features relating to the concept of an
"information society" and what this means for your country or
region. The story can focus on any communication medium (from the internet to
traditional songs) but it will extend beyond merely reporting an event to analysing its significance in the light of wider
development issues and the concept of the information society.
§
The work
must have already been published or broadcast, and you must provide evidence of
this - a newspaper clipping, web reference or broadcasting schedule (or
details of broadcasting - station, time, date, name
of programme).
§
Video
material should be submitted in PAL format. Audio material can be submitted on
cassette, or as MP3 files.
§
Print or
online submissions can be in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese. Radio or
audiovisual submissions in languages other than English must be accompanied by
a full transcript in English.
§
Please give
the following information with your submission:
o
Name
o
Sex
o
Employment
(eg "Business reporter with the Zambia Daily
News")
o
Postal
address
o
e-mail
address
o
Telephone
number
§
Your covering
letter (in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese) should give some information
about the medium in which your submission was published eg
national or local newspaper, national or community radio.
§
If your
submission was originally in a non-European language, please state what
language it is in, and give some information about the status and users of this
language (eg "It
is the language of the xx people, who live in xxxx.
This language is not the main language of the state, but there is one newspaper
and two radio stations that use it.")
§
Please
indicate briefly some other stories about communication issues that you would
like to research and report on, for which you might use the award if you
received it.
§
Reports
that were commissioned by Panos are not eligible for
this award.
Selection criteria
§
We will
seek to make one award to a journalist from Africa, one to a journalist from Asia and one from another region; we
will seek to award at least one to a woman journalist. However, these
categories are not fixed.
§
We are looking
for journalism that builds understanding of the importance of communication for
development; and that stimulates awareness of the impact of national and global
communication policies on development.
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