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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
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:
Name
Sex
Employment (eg "Business reporter with the Zambia
Daily News")
Postal address
E -mail address
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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The Panos Institute
Visit our website at www.panos.org.uk
9 White Lion Street, London N1 9PD, UK
Phone: + (44) 207-239 7609, Fax: + (44) 207-278 0345
Wed Oct 1, 2003 2:03 pm
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