GKP/Panos Media Award

["Laina Raveendran Greene" <laina@getit.org>]

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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