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From the "Rising Voices" Forum:

Knight Foundation and MTV Partner on $500,000 "Young Creators Award" to Fund Digital Journalism Projects that Strengthen Community Ties

MTV and the Knight Foundation have just announced that a special category of the upcoming Knight News Challenge will "award up to $500,000 to young creators with compelling ideas for using digitally delivered news and information to enhance physical communities - improving the lives of people where they live, work and vote."

"The Young Creators Award is open to young community-minded innovators worldwide with big ideas such as: anything that informs and inspires community using bits and bytes; new ways to deliver news on emerging platforms, such as cell phone documentaries; new types of operating software for news collectors; and journalism games.

All entries require three elements: 1) use of a digital media; 2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to 3) a geographically defined community. Although there is a category for commercial applications, most entries are "open-source" and must share the software and knowledge created. The number of grants awarded will be based on the size of the ideas; no idea is too large or too small."

You can find out more at http://think.mtv.com/ and www.youngcreatorsaward.com

This was posted on the Art4Development Yahoo! Groups listserv.