The New Statesman New Media Awards are back

A call for entries for the 2007 New Statesman New Media Awards has gone out:

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New Statesman New Media Awards 2007
www.newstatesman.com/newmedia

Call for entries!

The New Statesman is once again looking for entries for its New Media Awards. Running annually since 1998, the awards celebrate the positive impact that digital media can have on society, democracy, politics and culture.

Last year’s winners included: PledgeBank.com, openDemocracy.net, BBC Backstage, Love Lewisham and WriteToThem.com.

With so many exciting things happening in the digital technology space in the UK at the moment, the New Media Awards set out to recognise and reward the best ideas, best projects and best people making a difference and using new media for good.

This year a new category has entered the ring, The Young Innovator. It is open to everyone under the age of 22, and the winner will receive a cash prize of £500. Do you know someone who deserves such recognition?

The list of categories in this year’s awards is as follows:
Contribution to civic society
Modernising government
Elected representative
Education
Information and openness
Advocacy
Young Innovator

Entering the awards is a matter of simply filling in the online form here.

The last day to enter is 31 May 2007.
Winners will be announced in July.

For further details go to www.newstatesman.com/newmedia or contact Charlotte Eisenhart: charlotte@newstatesman.co.uk.

Goodness, gracious me

NMK’s Beers & Innovation evening on Goodness 2.0 is now fully booked.

Event: Confessions of a hawkish hack

This in from Policy Exchange…

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Confessions of a hawkish hack: the media and the war on terror

Policy Exchange is delighted to invite you to the launch of a new publication on the terrorist threat and the West’s response to it. Confessions of a hawkish hack: the media and the war on terror is an edited version of a recent lecture by Matthew D’Ancona, the Editor of The Spectator. In it, he outlines his own interpretation of the attacks of 9/11 and offers a critique of the media’s coverage of events since then. Above all, he urges the West to show greater patience and stamina in a conflict that is likely to last for decades and may never have a clear end point.

Matthew D’Ancona will discuss the book with Martin Bright, the political editor of the New Statesman and author of the acclaimed Policy Exchange report When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries.

Time: 6.30 p.m., Wednesday 13th December 2006

Venue: Ideas Forum, Clutha House, 10 Storey’s Gate, London SW1P 3AY

If you would like to attend please RSVP to events@policyexchange.org.uk or 0207 340 2650 to reserve a place.

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