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ECA Press Release No. 04/2003
AFRICAN MEDIA AWARDS FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY REPORTING
Addis Ababa, 13 May 2003 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its partners will today present the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) Media Awards to prominent media practitioners and organizations that have made significant contributions to the development of information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the information society in Africa.
An initiative of ECA, the awards are currently supported by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Open Society Initiative for Western Africa (OSIWA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD).
This year's winners and their special interest categories are:
AISI-OSISA Print ICT Focus (Ethiopia)
AISI-OSISA Radio Radio Afrique Espoir (Benin)
AISI-OSISA TV Association Yam Pukri (Burkina Faso) AISI-OSISA Special Award Réalités Magazine (Tunisia)
IICD-Local Content (2nd Prize)
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
African Languages Technology (Nigeria)
IICD Media Mr. Etienne Tasse (Cameroon) Mr. Salif Sanogo (Mali) IDRC Award on Reporting on ICT Research and Innovation
(2nd prize)
Mr. Takawira Musara (Zimbabwe) IT
& Telecom Digest (Nigeria) Ms. Bianca Wright (South Africa) OSIWA Best Female Reporter Ms. Brenda Zulu (Zambia)
The winners year were selected by internationally recognized African journalists, media researchers, and experts on ICT for Development issues.
The AISI Media Awards are established to encourage more informed coverage of the information society and ICT for development issues in Africa as part of the its AISI Outreach and Communication Programme. The AISI Media Awards is aimed at individual journalists and media institutions based in Africa that are "promoting journalism which contributes to a better understanding of the information society in Africa".
The Award ceremony is one of the events of the on-going third meeting of the Committee on Development Information (CODI-III), one of seven technical Committees established by the ECA's Conference of Ministers in May 1997 to ensure the implementation of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) so as to promote the growth of an information society in Africa, advise on measures to improve all aspects of statistical development of member States, and advise on the building, maintenance and dissemination of regional development databases,
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including bibliographic, textual and spatial databases.
AISI is aimed at supporting and accelerating socio-economic development across the continent, focusing on priority strategies, programmes and projects that can assist in the sustainable build up of an information society in African countries. This requires the development of information resources to reflect the needs of each and every sector and stakeholder in society.
The information society also requires that information and knowledge be disseminated and used by stakeholders, the public at large and disenfranchised groups such as women and the poor to make rational choices and exercise democratic and human rights.
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For more information on the Awards, please contact Aida Opoku-Mensah at aopoku-mensah@uneca.org For information on AISI, visit http://www.uneca.org/aisi/
For more information on CODI-III, contact:
Yinka Adeyemi
Communication Officer Tel: +251-1-44 35 37 Fax: +251-1-51 03 65 Cell: +251-9- 40 27 15 E-mail: yadeyemi@uneca.org Issued by the Communication Team ECA
P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Tel: +251-1-44 50 98 or 44 31 61 Fax: +251-1-51 03 65
E-mail: ecainfo@uneca.org Web: www.uneca.org
