Deadline: 5 August 2011
Rhodes University’s Highway Africa programme and its partners are pleased to announce the opening of the nomination process for the prestigious Highway Africa New Media Awards.
For 11 years these unique awards within the profession of journalism on the continent, have been rewarding pioneering, innovative and creative use of technology in journalism and the media. The Awards were established reward and recognise African innovation in the area of digital media and to highlight the role that digital technologies play in journalism and the media at large.
The Highway Africa New Media Awards are in three categories:
Individual – awarded to individual persons who design or appropriate new affordable applications of communication technologies to overcome the limitations of existing infrastructure and / or capital resources.
Not – for – profit – awarded to users of appropriate media technology to advance and assist communities and persons limited by infrastructure and / or technological access.
Corporate – awarded to corporate groups for creative and appropriate adaptation of technologies within the continent to complete effectively in the wider environment.
Broad Criteria for Entries:
The judges will consider the use of new media technologies to:
• Advance press freedom on the continent;
• Encourage social empowerment amongst marginalised communities;
• Highlight innovative and creative applications of global technology for the benefit of the continent’s overall media development.
Technical Requirements for All Entries:
1. Digital /Online platform must be functional and updated.
2. Creative use of multimedia components, such as text, photograph, video.
3. Aesthetic appeal, while being user friendly.
4. Digital / online platform should have been regularly updated in the period August 2010 and July 2011.
5. The judge’sdecision is final and no correspondence will be entertained after the closing date and when the final announcements are made.
6. Highway Africa reserves the right not to award prizes in any category.
Submissions can be made electronically to awards@highwayafrica.com copied to m.letlhaku@ru.ac.za and b.jacobs@ru.ac.za. The closing date for entries is 5 August 2011, 16:30 South African time.
The winners will be announced at the prestigious SABC-Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards gala dinner on the evening of 18 September 2011 during the 15th edition of the Highway Africa Conference.
For more information contact Bronwyn Jacobs (b.jacobs@ru.ac.za).
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Contact Information:
For inquiries: b.jacobs@ru.ac.za
For submissions: m.letlhaku@ru.ac.za and b.jacobs@ru.ac.za
Website: http://www.highwayafrica.com