2009 We Media Game Changers Awards Finalists Named, Online Voting Will Choose the Community Choice Winner
Finalists announced for We Media Game Changers Awards. Winners will be highlighted at the 2009 We Media Miami program in Miami help February 24-26. The 35 finalists are an international group and include a wide arrange of projects, people and organizations. The awards recognize people, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media.
Reston, VA (PRWEB) November 6, 2008 -- Digital journalism from Iraq, a mobile news project from Kenya, two social networks, two digital artists, two science research collaboratives, two foundations and two online advertising marketplaces are among 35 finalists for the 2009 We Media Game Changer Awards.
The awards recognize people, projects, ideas and organizations leading change and inspiring a better world through media.
An international panel of judges will help select the winners. The public will select the Community Choice winner through online voting.
The finalists, selected from 150 nominations, can be rated and reviewed by the public at: gamechangers.wemedia.com.
"It's hard to do something unique that genuinely changes how people think and look at the world," said We Media co-founder Andrew Nachison. "So its honestly breathtaking to reflect on the amazing display of creativity among the finalists. They've all come up with novel approaches to informing and improving the planet through media."
The winners will be celebrated and featured speakers at the We Media Miami Global Forum, Feb. 24-26, 2009, where their stories will become the content of the conference.
To register for the conference, visit: www.wemedia.com/miami.
The awards highlight achievements through exceptional story-telling, novel business models, significant social impact, innovative design and powerful visions of media for the connected culture.
The awards are organized and administered by iFOCOS, the media think tank and futures lab that organizes the We Media conferences and global membership community.
The 2009 awards finalists are:
Akron Beacon Journal/American Dream
Beanstockd
BlogHer
Born in September/Charity Water
Canada's Next Great Prime Minister/CBC
Creative Visions Foundation
David Dunkley Gyimah, Founder, Viewmag
David Kidder, Founder, Clickable.com
Design 21 Social Design Network
Digg Labs/Stamen Designs
Dotsub
Footnote/The Wall
Freewheelin
Genius Rocket
Innocentive
iStockphoto
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Jonathan Harris
MediaStorm
NewsTrust
NPR API
Off The Bus/Huffington Post
OneVoice
PhotoVoice
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Reuters Iraq Anniversary
SETI@HOME
SocialVibe
The Hype Machine
The Knot
Twitter
UChannel
Ushahidi
Will Wright
WITNESS/ Witness Hub
ZeFrank
Register for the We Media Miami conference at: wemedia.com/miami.
About We Media
The We Media conferences, membership community and awards are organized by iFOCOS, a non-profit media think tank and futures lab founded in 2006 by media visionaries Andrew Nachison and Dale Peskin. They help anyone create, operate and sustain ventures in a media-centric culture powered by everyone. We Media programs function as a marketplace of ideas and actions for business and social innovators and they connect individuals and organizations from across industries who believe the power of media, communication and human ingenuity should be applied to innovate in business and to make the world better through media. More about We Media at: wemedia.com.
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