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ICT
Focus Honored
for Outstanding Contribution in Promoting ICT
ICT
Focus Magazine has won one of the 2003 African Information Society
Initiative (AISI) Media Awards of the United Nations Economic Commission
for Africa.
ECA has introduced the AISI Media Awards to encourage more informed
coverage of the information society and ICT for development issues
in Africa as part of its AISI Outreach and Communication Programme,
and is currently supported by the Open Society Initiative for Southern
Africa (OSISA). 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”.
ICT Focus is selected from over 80 applications submitted from all
over Africa for the Award, for for its outstanding work in print
media that promotes the Information Society.
Since
its launching on February 2002, ICT Focus contributed enormously
in creating awareness on the role of ICTs in the development process.
The
magazine has promoted the use of the technology, community access,
local content, human skills and a good regulatory environment for
ICT development, to name just a few.
ICT
Focus endeavored to show to its readers how ICTs can be used to
serve them in their daily lives. The magazine made an effort to
strengthen people’s ability to use the technology to the full.
The editors are striving to see each and every user be able to turn
the technology into tools that will help them find solutions to
concrete problems.
The
magazine was selected by internationally recognized African journalists,
media researchers, and experts on ICT for Development issues.
The
Award was handed over by Mr. K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of
the ECA, to the editor of the magazine Wt. Frehiwot Getahun, on
May 13 2003, at a ceremony held in the Africa Hall.
Although it is presented to ICT Focus magazine, it is a victory
for all Ethiopian ICT promoters, Ethiopian journalism and the country
as a whole.
The winners with Mr. K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA
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