[UgaBYTES] Bangladesh Telecentre Network: Do you Know your BLOG can win an award?

Thu Apr 23 10:05:39 GMT 2009

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Dear All,

Belayet Hossain already informed you that we Telecentre.org English team  is
staging the first ever blog contest which will run from *April 20 to
May20,2009.*

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* *Are you a member of www.telecentre.org? If not, then please join
telecentre.org.

You can write blog stories, add telecentre user’s pictures or videos,
success stories with photos, and contribute to the discussions going on
ICT4D in this website. You could also join a group, create yours and enjoy
other applications present on this website.

Please join blog contest group on that website and give your valuable
suggestion to promote our blog contest activities.

Regards
Munira Morshed Munni

 *English team*
Asia — Sabyasachi Kashyap, Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies
Asia — Munira Morshed Munni, Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN)
Asia — Cuchie Echeverria, PhilCeCNet
Africa — Sandra Nassali, UgaBYTES
Africa — Francis Mwathi, UgaBYTES
Europe — Laia Fauro Gual, Fundacion Esplai (English, Spanish)

2009/4/23 Belayet Hossain <bellayet at gmail.com>

>
>
> Now it is time to give due recognition and incentives to you as a deserving
> blogger. Blog and share your stories on *telecentre.org English website*.
>
> The telecentre.org *English website* is staging the first ever blog *
> contest* which will run from *April 20 to May 20, 2009*.
>
> Haven’t written any blog ever? Do you think blogging is something hard? Not
> at all. Just try it. It is nothing but your diary. All you need to do is to
> keep writing and express yourself. *Only your focus needs to be related to
> ICT4D.*
> *
> Background and Objectives*
> The telecentre.org community has grown tremendously over the past few
> months. In less than a year, membership in all four language sites (English,
> Spanish, French and Arabic) has grown to over a thousand, with the English
> site alone having around thousand members. A lot of interaction has been
> going on through groups and forums, blogs and comments, with a good number
> of members participating actively and contributing content to the website.
> Blogs being a major form of knowledge sharing and in an effort to further
> engage the members of the telecentre.org community, the English team has
> decided to hold the first ever blog contest at telecentre.org.
>
> The contest has *two specific objectives:*
> o to provide an incentive for and give due recognition to active and
> deserving bloggers; and
> o to encourage and inspire the rest of the community to share their stories
> and post blogs at the telecentre.org website
>
> *Check now if you are eligible or not. You can contest it you:*
>
> *Are*
> Registered member of the telecentre.org English community and at least 18
> years of age;
>
> *Are Not*
> community facilitators, officers and staff of telecentre.org and its
> social investors;
>
> *Are you thinking on what theme would you start writing? The Blog themes
> should be within the below 12:*
> 1. Telecentres and Disability
> 2. Telecentres and Education
> 3. Telecentres and Environment
> 4. Telecentres and Governance
> 5. Telecentres and Health
> 6. Telecentres and Socio-Economic Development
> 7. Telecentres and Inclusion
> 8. Gender and Telecenters
> 9. Technology and Telecenters
> 10. Telecentre Sustainability
> 11. Telecentre Success Stories
> 12. Telecentre Best Practices
>
> To participate in the contest, blog entry must be posted at the
> telecentre.org website with the following compulsory contest footer to
> identify it as a contest entry:
> *Submitted as an entry to the telecentre.org Blog Contest*
>
> *NOTE: Insert this code at the end of your blog post.*
>
>
> *Don’t forget to follow the instructions below:*
>
> A member may submit only one contest entry. In case more than one entry is
> received from the same member, only the latest submitted entry will be
> considered for evaluation.
>
> Telecentre.org reserves the right to reject entries that are incomplete,
> invalid, or that contain any inappropriate information (e.g. spam and other
> controversial or offensive material).
>
> Blog post must have a *minimum of 400* words and a *maximum of 1,000*words.
>
> Blog entry may be accompanied by a *maximum of two images*. Images used
> must not exceed 500 pixels in width and in height. While images are not
> required, having them in the blog entry is an added advantage.
>
> Blog entry, including accompanying images, must not in any way violate any
> intellectual property right. By submitting a blog as a contest entry, member
> certifies that it is his or her original work and that the same does not
> currently exist in any other publication, blog or website.
>
> By participating in the contest, member automatically grants
> telecentre.org the right to use, copy, adapt, transmit, distribute,
> publish and display submitted entry, whether whole or in part, and this will
> be applicable worldwide and in perpetuity.
>
> All contest entries must be posted at the telecentre.org website by *5pm
> GMT on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 .*
>
> All contest entries will be subject to validation and shortlisting by
> telecentre.org, and all shortlisted entries will be submitted for
> evaluation by a distinguished panel of judges to be appointed by the former.
> The decision of the panel of judges is final.
>
> Evaluation of entries shall be done based on the following set of criteria:
> o Content
> o Organization
> o Relevance
>
> Based on the given criteria, the panel of judges will determine the top
> three blogs from among the contest entries.
>
> Winners will be announced via the telecentre.org website within one month
> after the deadline for submission of entries. Winners will likewise be
> notified via email by the telecentre.org Blog Contest Committee.
>
> Winners will each receive special surprise tokens from telecentre.org.
> Winning entries will also be featured in publications such as the
> telecentre.org newsletter and the Telecentre Times, among others.
>
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Munira Morshed Munni
Community Facilitator
Bangladesh Telecentre Network (BTN)
1/17 Humayan Road, Block - B
Mahammadpur, Dhaka-1207
Phone: 88-02-9146313
Email munni at mission2011.net.bd
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