> 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
>
> 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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