Composition of the international panel of judges

 

Ms. Nathalie Beaulieu

Nathalie Beaulieu joined the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in September 2006 and is based the centre’s West and Central Africa office (WARO) in Dakar, Senegal. She is a program officer with the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program. Within CCAA, she ensures linkages with partners and projects in West and Central Africa and contributes with some experience in flood management, agriculture, spatial data analysis, participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Nathalie is Canadian and has a background in Civil Engineering complemented with a Ph.D. in Remote Sensing, completed in 1998 at the University of Sherbrooke. Before joining IDRC she worked with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) for almost ten years.

 

Mr. Kelvin Chibomba

Kelvin Chibomba is the Radio Editor for OneWorld Radio Africa. OneWorld Africa (OWA) is a not for profit organisation (NGO), whose secretariat is housed in Lusaka, Zambia, founded to promote sustainable development and human dignity across the African continent. Founded in 1999, OneWorld Africa is part of the OneWorld International network of over 1 500 affiliated partners. OWA aims at providing more people in Africa with the capacity to utilize locally available information and communication technologies (ICTs) to develop and enhance content for development programming. The backbone of the operation lies in a network of civil society organizations coordinated by regional focal points in Southern, Eastern, Francophone, Lusophone and West Africa. OneWorld Africa editorial products are aimed at empowering communities to upload and download information from the Internet. OneWorld Africa encourages content/information sharing between communities in Africa. The portals bring together a network of broadcasters interested in the use of audio and other materials for the promotion of human rights, sustainable development and democracy. Kelvin worked in Zambia under a UNESCO radio project for 5 years before coming to OneWorld. He received training in radio in the Netherlands, Sweden and South Africa. He also has experience judging radio competitions since he was one of the judges in the global radio competition in 2006 organized by UNICEF in New York, USA.

 

Ms. Anna Egan

Anna Egan is managing editor of radio and print journalism for Panos London where she has worked since 2004. She was previously a radio reporter and producer at BBC Radio 4 in the UK and a news reporter for regional newspapers. At Panos she has worked with journalists from over 20 countries, producing features and news on public health, the environment, agriculture, and the information society.

Panos London is part of a global network of eight autonomous, non-profit Institutes that aim to ensure that information is effectively used to foster public debate, pluralism and democracy. It works with the media and other communicators to help developing countries shape their own agendas, with a particular focus on amplifying the voices of poor and marginalised people. It assesses the role communication plays, or could play, in key development issues such as HIV/AIDS, the information society, globalisation and environment. Panos London also produces journalism on global issues.

 

Ms. Venus Easwaran Jennings

Venus E. Jennings is a Communication and Information Programme Specialist, working for the Media Capacity Building Section at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Venus started her career as a news presenter on national television. She was drawn to relief and development efforts in the late eighties and her interest in communication for development was founded through her work as Communication Officer with CARE International and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Since 2003, when she joined UNESCO, Venus has been working with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen media reports and analysis on sustainable development issues.

Mr. Andreas Mandler (GTZ)

Andreas Mandler is a social scientist, working with GTZ and FAO in the field of Communication for Development and Rural Radio. He worked as a freelance Radio journalist for German broadcasting stations. Since 2000, Andreas has collaborated with the radio drama and feature section of the nationwide broadcasting station DeutschlandRadio Kultur in Berlin. He visited several broadcasting stations in Tajikistan and Russia due to his special interest for broadcasting in countries of the former Soviet Union. The German Organization for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) is a knowledge organization and as such dedicated to good communication practice. In its collaboration with worldwide partners, GTZ seeks to enable a broad participation of all stakeholders. Considering the importance of Information and Knowledge Exchange for rural development, Rural Radio has a unique potential for reaching out to and involving rural people. GTZ has long relied on radio in rural areas because of its function as a knowledge service provider. This includes tailor made dissemination of topics of local concern, such as health, educational and agricultural information, or programs for conflict mitigation. By doing so, GTZ make efforts to contribute to the MDG No. 8, recognizing the importance of access to the benefits of new technologies – especially information and communications technologies.

 

Mr. Traoré Sayouba

Born July 1, 1955, in Ouahigouya in Burkina Faso, Mr. Traoré Sayouba was professor of literature until 1988. He started his career as a journalist in February 1988 on the radio and in March 1989 in the print media. Mr. Traoré Sayouba is also a writer. He has published two collections of short stories (Burkinabè, Humeurs et Rumeurs in 1993 and Un député va mourir in 2004) and novels (Loin de mon village, c’est la brousse in 2005 and Les Moustaches du Chat in 2007).

Currently, he produces the show Le Coq Chante. This production is heard on the Africa Network of Radio France Internationale (RFI) and is also included in the broadcast Élan, RFI’s global network. Le Coq Chante is also part of a catalog of radio network members on Ordispace.

RFI is the first international radio for news and has 45 million listeners around the world, including 28 million in Africa. RFI also manages the Ordispace network which includes 250 radio stations in Africa.

 

Mr. Leon van den Boogerd

After completing his studies in Human Geography of developing countries at the University of Amsterdam, Leon worked and lived for more than 12 years in West and Central Africa. As an internal adviser at SNV, Netherlands Development Organisation, he advised a large number of different projects on planning, monitoring and evaluation. Capacity building of local partner organisations was a focus of his work. Since 2004 Leon has worked at the Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC www.rntc.nl) and is in charge of a large capacity building program of 68 community radio stations in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Guinea and Guinea Bissau. He speaks French, Portuguese and English. The community radio stations receive hands-on training on location in radio program making, technical training and support and management training. www.informotrac.org RNTC is a centre of excellence in the field of media, development and education, and is attached to the international broadcaster Radio Netherlands Worldwide. RNTC focuses on the development of the media sector, and on the use of media for development.