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[eccr] Panos GKP Awards- 2003, Call for Submissions.

Sat Sep 13 11:00:43 GMT 2003


>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 /at/ panoslondon.org.uk)
><mailto:(award /at/ 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 /at/ panoslondon.org.uk) <mailto:(kittyw /at/ 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
>
>*    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.
>
>END
>
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