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OneWorld’s co-founder Peter Armstrong receives BAFTA Special Lifetime Award
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) made 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 and OneWorld co-founder Anuradha Vittachi writes on Media for All by 2015 as IPS guest columnist for TerraViva online, WSIS special edition, December 2003. Pranlal Sheth CBE The late Pranlal Sheth was OneWorld's Founding Chair of Trustees and its guiding spirit. After his death on 30 June 2003 his obituary appeared in the Guardian, Independent and Times, and in the Kenyan Daily Nation on the Web. "Listen to the people" Anuradha Vittachi's speech to US film and media grantmakers, Dallas, Texas, April 2003. UN Secretary-General recommends OneWorld Kofi Annan 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 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 is already showing the way." Full story The Guardian, 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 Newsweek "OneWorld.net is a leading international portal for human rights and sustainable development concerns. Nonprofit, nonsectarian and independent netizens of the world, out to make it a better place." Village Voice “The spectacular OneWorld (oneworld.net)--an umbrella site for non-governmental organizations and human rights coalitions could serve as a model for how to effectively inform and mobilize online. Packed, well-organized…OneWorld makes expert use of its subsidiaries' materials.” The Guardian “one of the first charities to see the possibilities for NGOs on the net …Internet access in the developing world, where computers are still a rarity, is minimal. But with assistance and training from organisations like OneWorld, grassroots groups in the South are starting to click onto its possibilities.” The Observer (UK) “search engines already wield considerable power … an exclusively market-driven solution will lead to a web where the most visible organisations will be those with deepest pockets. Alarmed by this prospect, OneWorld.net its own specialist search engine precisely to avoid the looming threat of ‘virtual invisibility’.” .net (UK’s best selling internet magazine) “A worthy site that gets down to the bare facts about global events, politics, economy and campaigns. OneWorld shows us just how much we don’t know and provides fascinating features on a huge range of issues ….Excellent educational resources for children.” |
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