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[Pradip Saha]

> Subject: PANOS-GKP JOURNALISM AWARDS 2004
> From:    "Shahjahan Siraj" <siraj at drik.net>
> Date:    Mon, August 9, 2004 4:01 pm
> To:      unnayan-news at yahoogroups.com
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>
>
> PANOS-GKP JOURNALISM AWARDS 2004
>
> TRANSPARENCY, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY: DO ICTs INCREASE
> ACCOUNTABILITY?
>
> Panos and GKP are pleased to call for submissions for the
> 2004
> "Reporting on the Information Society" awards. The topic
> for this year is "Transparency, good governance and
> democracy: Do Information and Communication Technologies
> increase accountability?"
>
> Four awards of $1,000 each will be made for the best
> journalism on this topic produced by journalists in
> developing and transition countries.
>
> These awards, which were launched by Panos and GKP in
> 2003, aim to encourage and bring to international
> recognition thoughtful and incisive reporting that goes
> beyond describing information projects or new
> investment initiatives to analyse their social and
> political impacts and policy implications.
>
> Print, radio, TV and web journalism are all eligible.
>
> To submit a piece of work for consideration, send a
> clipping, audio or video tape, transcript or web reference
> by email
> mailto:award2004 at panos.org.uk or by post to: Murali
> Shanmugavelan, Panos Institute, 9 White Lion St, London N1
> 9PD, UK
>
> The work submitted must have been published/broadcast
> between 1 January and 15 October 2004.
>
> Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2004.
>
> ******************************************
> This year's theme:-
>
> TRANSPARENCY, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY: DO ICTs INCREASE
> ACCOUNTABILITY?
>
> It is generally accepted by governments, communication
> specialists and the development community that information
> and communication are
> essential for development. The World Summit on the
> Information Society (2003), for example, was convened "to
> harness the potential of
> information and communication technology to promote the
> development goals of the Millennium Declaration".
>
> Among the most important ways information and
> communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to
> development are considered to be encouraging information
> openness, speeding up processes of exchange of
> information, and reducing opportunities for corruption.
> Good governance, said the United Nations Human Development
> Report in 2001, depends on effective information systems,
> and is crucial to achieving the Millennium
> Development Goals.
>
> ICTs may contribute to good governance in different ways.
> There are many formal "e-governance" projects, such as
> digitising land records or voting procedures, which aim to
> facilitate citizens' access to
> officialdom and reduce opportunities for corruption.
> Citizens may gain new opportunities for engaging in
> political processes, or for holding public and commercial
> bodies accountable. On a more general level, internet and
> email may facilitate civil society networking and action.
> More broadly still, there is a global movement for freedom
> of
> information, and many governments and businesses are
> having to redefine their policies on transparency.
>
> But ICTs alone may not be enough to end deep-rooted habits
> or political cultures of excluding citizens from access to
> information. In some countries, governments are proving
> resistant to change, or projects to improve access to
> information are reaching fewer people than expected.
>
> These are important issues for journalists to investigate
> and analyse.
>
> Panos and GKP invite journalists from developing and
> transition
> countries to submit work that has been or will be
> published this year in their own country or
> internationally, on aspects of communication, transparency
> and good governance. The work may focus on the role of any
> technology-assisted communication medium - internet and
> web, telephones, press, radio or TV.  It can be any form
> of journalism and in any medium.
>
>
>
> ABOUT US:
>
> Panos London 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 London is part
> of a network of Panos offices in fifteen 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
> multi-stakeholder 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
>
> §     Only journalists who are citizens of or living in
> developing or transition countries may apply.
> §     The work submitted can be a piece of print, radio,
> TV or online journalism.
> §     A journalist can submit as many pieces as s/he likes.
> §     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.
> §     There is no maximum or minimum length
> §     Submitted works should be stories or features
> relating to the question of whether or how information and
> communication contribute totransparency, good governance,
> democracy and accountability. The story can focus on any
> technology-assisted communication medium, but it will
> extend beyond merely reporting an event to analysing its
> significance in the light of the wider development issues
> and the concept of the
> information society.
> §     We are interested in stories that take account of
> gender aspects. §     The work must have been published or
> broadcast between January 1st and October 15th 2004 (or
> publication/broadcast must be confirmed to take
> place before October 15th 2004) 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
> Email 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.
>
>
> Panos will auto-acknowledge email entry/ies from each
> contestant. If you do not receive one within 48 hours,
> please send your entries again.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> FOR MORE ABOUT THE AWARDS AND PANOS CLICK ON
> http://www.panos.org.uk/global/Rprojectdetails.asp?ProjectID=1045
> <http://www.panos.org.uk/global/Rprojectdetails.asp?ProjectID=1045&ID=10
> 02&RP> &ID=1002&RP
> rojectID=1061

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