Highway Africa: call for awards nominations

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:

• Digital/Online platform must be functional and updated;
  
• Multimedia components, print, web and post;
  
• Aesthetic appeal (creative use of limited resources);
  
• Stories should have been published in the period August 2008 and July 2009;
  
• The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entertained after the closing date and when the final announcements are made;
  
• Highway Africa reserves the right not to award prizes in any category.

Submissions must be made electronically to moc.acirfayawhgih@sdrawa, copied to az.ca.ur@otawbak.c. The closing date for the nominations is 18 June 2010, 4.30pm, Pretoria Time.

Winners will be announced at the Highway Africa New Media Awards ceremony on the evening of Tuesday, 6 July 2010, at the conference.

For more information, contact moc.acirfayawhgih@sdrawa. Go to www.highwayafrica.com for entry forms.