Kwami Ahiabenu,II Knowledge Chief

Rhodes University's Highway Africa programme and its partners are pleased to announce the opening of the nomination process for the prestigious Highway Africa New Media Awards.   For 11 years these unique awards within the profession of journalism on the continent, have been rewarding pioneering, innovative and creative use of technology in journalism and the media. The Awards were established reward and recognise African innovation in the area of digital media and to highlight the role that digital technologies play in journalism and the media at large.   The Highway Africa New Media Awards are in three categories:   Individual – awarded to individual persons who design or appropriate new affordable applications of communication technologies to overcome the limitations of existing infrastructure and / or capital resources.   Not – for – profit – awarded to users of appropriate media technology to advance and assist communities and persons limited by infrastruc

African Elections Project Liberia monitoring team has spotted a new group on Facebook for upcoming Liberia 2011 Elections called Liberia Elections 2011 Media Monitoring Group According to the group page it is designed to discuss media coverage of the elections based on media monitoring results and alerts of on media compliance to code of ethics, journalism standards and conflict sensitive elections reporting. join the group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_137338993012105