ICT Focus Honored
for Outstanding Contribution in Promoting ICT
May 13th, 2003
The magazine received the first-ever AISI Media Award, for which over 80 applications were submitted from all over Africa, in recognition of its outstanding work in print media that promotes the Information Society. More...
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This
Year’s AISI Media Awards Winners Announced
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 received
the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) Media Awards.
An initiative of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the awards
are 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).
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 was one of the events of the third meeting of
the Committee on Development Information (CODI-III), held from May
10th to 17th 2003. CODI is 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, 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 winners of the first-ever AISI Media Awards 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
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
Mr. Takawira Musara
(Zimbabwe) IT & Telecom Digest (Nigeria)
Ms. Bianca
Wright (South Africa) OSIWA Best Female Reporter Ms. Brenda Zulu (Zambia)
The winners with Mr. K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA
