The Big Picture Digital Journalism Project is launching Africa’s first crowdsourced journalism awards.
These ‘Big Picture Journalism Awards’ will serve to strengthen African journalist’s capacities in the use of crowdsourced journalism tools and techniques by supporting the development of the most innovative crowdsourced journalism project ideas from Africa.
The awards consist of a 5,000 Euro grant, which will be awarded to each of the top three crowdsourced journalism project ideas from Africa; technical advice on project startup and one-on-one mentoring on project development for the top three concepts.
The awards are open to anyone in Africa with an innovative idea for a crowdsourced journalism project.
Winning projects will be selected by a panel of highly esteemed, international journalists and technologists including Ethan Zuckerman – Director of MIT’s Center of Civic Media and Jeff Howe - professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of the book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.
All entries should be submitted through the Big Picture Digital Project website:
The awards consist of a 5,000 Euro grant, which will be awarded to each of the top three crowdsourced journalism project ideas from Africa; technical advice on project startup and one-on-one mentoring on project development for the top three concepts.
The awards are open to anyone in Africa with an innovative idea for a crowdsourced journalism project.
Winning projects will be selected by a panel of highly esteemed, international journalists and technologists including Ethan Zuckerman – Director of MIT’s Center of Civic Media and Jeff Howe - professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of the book Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.
All entries should be submitted through the Big Picture Digital Project website:
The deadline for submission of entries is close of business on Friday 7th September, 2012.