The Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) has launched a media production contest on ICTs open to all print and broadcast media journalists from West and Central Africa.
Prizes will be awarded to the best print articles and radio programmes on the theme ICTs and elections in Africa.
Articles or radio programmes should focus specifically on one of the following issues:
- the use of Internet during campaigns (”cybercampaigns”, public debate using Internet) ;
- impact of Internet on campaigns and elections;
- mobile telephony and elections ;
- ICTs and elections’ transparency (electoral file, voter card, data transmission security, statistics);
- ICT theme in election candidates’ programmes.
More information from Haayo-Mediatic…
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The contest winners have been announced. You can read the two winning articles and listen to the radio programme at the Haayo website http://www.haayo.org/PIWA-Information-societies-Prize.html
For Print Media: Ramata Sore, Burkina Faso, for her article dealing with « Les Présidentielles 2005 au Burkina : grâce au fichier électoral informatisé, les morts auraient pu voter » (Translation : Presidential elections in Burkina Faso : thanks to the digital voters’ file, the dead could have been voting).
For Radio: Victorine Yao, Côte d’Ivoire, for her audio production on « Elections and Internet.
Special Prize: Harrison Alechenu Akoh, Nigeria, for his production entitled « Mobile Phone : Transforming the electoral process.