African Cinema Conference presents... Highway Africa Award for the Innovative use of New Media in Africa.
This award is given annually at the Highway Africa conference to recognize the creative, innovative and appropriate use of new media technology in Africa. Judges are looking for innovative applications of new media in African journalism. Awards are given in three categories: individual/student, non-profit and corporate. In the Individual and NG Categories: recognition will be given to communications which find ways to overcome the limitations of the existing African infrastructure. For example, previous winners in the individual category include: Omololu Falobi from Nigeria, who created an email distribution list to deliver a very successful newsletter on Aids to his wider community and Africa almanac.com, which focuses on the history, achievements, economic developments, news, arts and culture of Africa. In the Corporate Category: judges will be looking for creative adaptation of global technologies in an African media context. Previous winners include SABC's news research service NewsNet and Kiswahili online news service, Afrikaleo.com. Other broad criteria: which apply to both categories, are the use of new media to benefit press freedom in Africa and encourage social empowerment in African communities. Ultimately the award aims to highlight innovations that result in African media benefiting from new ideas and developments in communications technology. To nominate an organisation or individual for the award, please send: * the name of the organisation/individual you wish to nominate; * a brief (300 words) description of the organisation/individual an why you believe it should win the Highway Africa Award for Innovative use of New Media. Please include urls for any websites, or examples of any media or outcomes that you think may be relevant to the judging. * contact information for the organisation, preferably the name of one person responsible, email address and phone numbers - Deadline July 31st. Email nominations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For further clarification on the awards, contact Megan Knight, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- "Mainstreaming Media in the Information Society" Be a part of the 7th Highway Africa Conference, 8-10 September. http://www.highwayafrica.org.za -------------------- Highway Africa Department of Journalism & Media Studies Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
