BNNRC – Bangladesh received WSIS Prize 2016 in Geneva
AHM Bazlur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of BNNRC in his message said: “We are indeed honoured to have received this award. All of us at BNNRC are extremely proud that our work has been given this appreciation and recognition by the international community.” “Of course, the real winners,” he added, “are 60 youth women community radio journalists who are working with 16 community radio stations in Bangladesh to ensure the voices of the voice-less are in line with poverty of voice.”
AHM Bazlur Rahman, Chief Executive Officer of the Bangladesh Network for Radio and Communication, receiving the prize from Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General of ITU
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angladesh NGO Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) has received the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prize
2016 on 3 May 2016 as part of the WSIS Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.
The WSIS forum is co-organised by ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD, and the UNDP with the engagement of other United Nations Agencies , including WIPO, UNDESA, FAO, ILO, ITC, UNODC, UNEP,UPU, WMO, WHO, WFP, UN Women and the UN Regional Commission.
The prestigious prize was awarded in recognition of BNNRC’s successful implementation of a project on Youth Women in Community Media and Journalism -- the beginning of a new era in rural broadcasting journalism of Bangladesh supported by Free Press Unlimited.
The WSIS competition was among the 311 projects submitted for online voting. In addition to a total of 18 WSIS prize winners, 70 runners-up projects were also recognised as WSIS Prize 2016 Champions.
Incredible performance by Australia’s Dami Im at 2016 Eurovision Song Contest
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ustralia was gripped on Saturday 14 May 2016 by a young lady who came second in the
Eurovision competition in Stockholm, Sweden with her performance of the song, Sound of Silence. SBS, a member of the ABU, broadcasted the show ‘live’ throughout Australia and subsequently gained large audiences.
Dami Im (27) is a Korean-born Australian singer and songwriter who migrated to Australia with her family at the age of nine. She won the fifth season of X Factor Australia and subsequently received a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. She also participated in the 2014 ABU TV Song Festival in Macau.
BNNRC’s project highlights the “voices of the rural people” which essentially are at the core of the rural broadcasting journalism programme, especially for female journalists.
Prior to taking up their responsibilities in community radio broadcasting programmes and feature writing in local newspapers, the young women journalists, aged between 18 and 30, were exposed to customised media training in order to strengthen their understanding of reporting, news and script writing and editing during fellowship programmes that took place in 2013 and 2015.
They joined as producers, anchors and reporters in 16 regional community radio stations some of which are located in remote coastal islands and on river banks. The young women produced over 800 radio programmes and about 500 newspaper reports which largely focused on messages to free society from the traditional caste systems, good practices in health for women and children, ending early marriage, social discrimination, violence against women, promoting education, and giving more voices to marginalised people.
The goal of WSIS is to achieve a common vision, desire, and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society where everyone can create, access, utilise and share information. The WSIS Forum 2016 represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community.
It is the second time Australia has participated in this very famous song competition. Her success went viral on social media and she was congratulated by hundreds of thousands of people from various parts of Asia. Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten also congratulated her.
Jamala from Ukraine won the competition after singing a melancholic tune about the 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars by Soviet authorities. Eurovision 2016 was watched by a worldwide audience of about 200 million.
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