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OneWorld’s co-founder Peter Armstrong to receive BAFTA Special Lifetime Award. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) will make the presentation to Peter Armstrong at its Interactive Awards on 19 February 2004 for his contribution to the digital industry. Full story.
BBC Interview with Peter Armstrong. OneWorld's Co-founder spoke on the topic 'Using the web to tackle poverty' on BBC's 'Ask the Campaigner' programme. See Transcript here. “Birds sing. People talk. The need to communicate is fundamental.” OWIF Director Anuradha Vittachi writes on Media for All by 2015 as IPS guest columnist for TerraViva online, WSIS special edition, December 2003. The late Pranlal Sheth was OneWorld's Founding Chair of Trustees and its guiding spirit. After his death on 30th June 2003 his obituary appeared in the UK Guardian, Independent and Times, and in the Kenyan Daily Nation on the Web. "Listen to the people," says Anuradha Vittachi in her speech to US film and media grantmakers, Dallas, April 2003. Kofi Annan, United Nations secretary-general, recommends OneWorld.net as one of his top 10 websites - saying that "Information and communications technologies are enormously powerful tools for development. One of the most pressing challenges is to harness this extraordinary force, spread it throughout the world, and make its benefits accessible and meaningful for all humanity, in particular the poor." Foreign Policy Magazine 2002 Other coverage: Ford Foundation magazine December 2002 "The future promises another communications revolution as the internet merges with television to make possible more programming and more audience participation. How will the new technology serve public as well as commercial interests? OneWorld TV (www.oneworld.net/tv) is already showing the way." Full story The Guardian (UK) July 2002 Forget Big Brother and the endless celebrity exposés- the true home of reality TV is on the internet. John Plunkett on the web technology from OneWorld that aims to bring home the issues that matter. Full story Please see here for OneWorld's press and public relations contacts. |



