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AISI/IICD
Media Award 2004
The
AISI/IICD Media Award has two categories:
IICD/AISI Award on Local Content Applications.
This award aims to recognize users of innovative or pioneering
applications of ICTs to local content defined as ''the expression
of the locally owned and adapted knowledge of a community"
in Africa. Applications can be from any sector and use of
any medium with a demonstrated link with ICTs that provide
opportunities for local people to interact and communicate
with each other, expressing their own ideas, knowledge and
culture in their own languages.
Prizes: The first prizewinner for
this category will receive 3,000 US Dollars, and the runner-up,
1,500 US Dollars.
IICD/AISI Media Award on Local Content. This
second IICD award will recognize an outstanding story, campaign,
or project in which the significance of local knowledge and
content is raised in local, national, or regional fora.
Media
Categories: magazines, websites, radio and television
programmes
Prizes: The first prizewinner for
this category will receive 2,000 US Dollars, and the runner-up,
1,000 US Dollars.
JUDGING
Judging will be based on four categories of entries and winners
from each category will be those, who in the opinion of the
Judges have made a significant contribution to promoting and
raising awareness on the information society in Africa.
The Judges have the right to withhold making an award should
it be deemed, in their opinion that no entry fully satisfies
the criteria laid down. The decision of the Judges is final
and no correspondence will be entered into.
CONDITIONS
FOR ENTRY
1. Conditions governing the
Awards:
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ECA
has the right to reproduce and transmit in any media,
for non-commercial purposes, the work that has been
selected. |
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ECA
has the right to cancel the Awards at any time, when
the selected entities and individuals are found ineligible
or don’t fulfill the criteria laid down for the
award. |
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The
decision of the judges shall be final. |
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Members
of the panel of judges for the Award and members of
the sponsoring institutions shall not be eligible to
submit an entry. |
2.
Criteria for entries:
All entries must have been published and broadcasted by an
African Media institution during the year 2003/2004. Entries
can be submitted in more than one category but THREE COPIES
OF ALL MATERIAL ARE NEEDED FOR EACH CATEGORY ENTERED. Also,
SUBMISSIONS IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES SHOULD BE TRANSLATED (in
the case of print) and/or TRANSCRIBED INTO ENGLISH OR FRENCH
for RADIO AND TV PROGRAMMES.
Entries that cover only international issues are ineligible
unless, they relate to, and develop an understanding of, current
information society issues in Africa.
3. Submission of Entries:
A FULLY COMPLETED FORM MUST ACCOMPANY EACH SUBMISSION; OTHERWISE
THE ENTRY WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.
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Entries
must be cassettes for radio /VHS for tapes for TV entries
and original materials for print entries. |
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All
material in a language other than French and English
must have translation and/or transcription included
in the submission. |
Submissions
can be in English, French, Arabic.
Closing
date: 31
July 2004
Submit
to:
Ms
Kidist Belayneh (kbelayneh@uneca.org)
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA AISI MEDIA AWARD
DISD, 5th Floor, ECA Building, ECA, PO Box 3001, Menelik
II Avenue
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Website: http://www.uneca.org/aisi/mediaaward.htm
4. Winners:
The winners will be selected from entries, which in the opinion
of the Judges, make a significant contribution to public awareness
and understanding of the information society, and which provide
analysis on issues concerning access, policy/regulatory environment,
the social and economic impacts of ICT for development. A
public announcement will be made shortly after the selection
for all the categories.
The selection will be followed by an official notification
from the ECA and IICD.
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