[Africa-ir-public] PANOS-GKP JOURNALISM AWARDS 2004 - announcement

[George Lessard]

From: "Shahjahan Siraj" <siraj at drik.net>
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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 19:31:55 +0600
Subject: PANOS-GKP JOURNALISM AWARDS 2004  - announcement

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 to: 
<mailto:award2004 at panos.org.uk>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 October 15 2004.

Deadline for submissions: Oct 15th 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 Institutes 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

§  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 
to transparency, 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
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.

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.




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