{"id":63152,"date":"2020-09-10T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-28T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:56:04","slug":"call-for-applications-innovators-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubyskynews.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/10\/call-for-applications-innovators-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Applications\u200b: Innovators-in-Residence Program 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1444\" data-original-width=\"2048\" src=\"http:\/\/rubyskynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/web2bbanner2b-2bcall2bfor2bapplications2b2528eng2529.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700;\">Call for Applications\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Innovators-in-Residence Program 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Media Innovation Center&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Aga Khan University<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">&nbsp;(Graduate School of Media and Communications)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Expression of Interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The AKU GSMC Media Innovation Centre, together with its partners DW Akademie, Media Challenge Initiative and Tanzania\u2019s Media Foundation are looking for the brightest media minds from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to join the 2020 Innovators-in-Residence, a 12-month incubation and accelerator program that provides mentorship, training and coaching to selected media innovators in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The three winning teams, one from each of the participating countries, will join us for a period of 12 months and receive the following benefits to turn their ideas into successful products.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 10px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Grant Funding of up to $20,000 .<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Monthly stipend of $1,000 per team.<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">A physical space in your home country to work and connect with a regional network of game-changers in the media space.<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Access to relevant technology, including audio and video production equipment.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Expert coaching and mentorship based on the innovator\u2019s needs as well as high-quality training by experienced professionals drawn from journalism and business.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Become a lifetime member of our young and growing community of journalism and media innovators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">We are interested in supporting pre-formed teams of journalists, storytellers, visual artists, data analytics specialists, photographers, videographers, graphic designers, cartoonists, illustrators, coders, programmers and\/or animators who will work as a team to create viable solutions to the pressing challenges of the East African media landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The projects can range within the following media challenges, but we are open to any other exciting ideas. Feel free to surprise us!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 10px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Community-based or community targeted journalism: Community-based media (radio organizations and news sites) that cover critical societal issues at a grassroots level. Journalists working in rural areas in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are highly encouraged to apply. We want to support ideas that help us answer the following question: How can tailor our community journalism to be more relevant to our local audiences?<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Youth-targeted journalism: Innovations and start-ups that are producing or intend to produce journalistic content that targets young people. Innovations that address the issues of East African youth and package the content in digital formats that resonate with the youth. We want to answer this question: How can we engage young audiences and local communities?<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Fact-checking: Innovations that will assist journalists and storytellers to address misinformation and disinformation in East Africa. We are open to projects that answer the following question: How can we address misinformation and disinformation?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Digital journalism: Innovations that focus on delivering high-quality journalism told and packaged in exciting digital-based storytelling formats such as graphics, podcasts, video and other visual forms of storytelling. We are looking for innovative projects that would answer the following question: How can we create meaningful storytelling using new digital tools and methods?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Documentaries or \u2018alternative media\u2019: Innovations that focus on retelling journalism in unconventional ways such as documentaries, docu\u200b-series and limited series. We would like to know: How can information be transferred in an engaging and thought-provoking manner?<br style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Who Can Apply?<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 10px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Media innovators from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Journalists and innovators based in either urban or rural areas are eligible to apply.<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Innovators working in pre-formed teams. Innovators can only apply in teams of 2-5 members.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Projects in any East African language are welcome to apply.<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Projects that address journalism and media challenges other than storytelling are welcome. Apps and projects that support journalists in their work are also invited to apply.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Participants must be above the age of 18 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">&nbsp;To see projects that we have previously supported, see debunk.media&nbsp; or check out their Twitter (@Debunkdotmedia) and YouTube Channel (Debunk Media).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Candidates will be shortlisted and interviewed by a selection committee and a panel of independent judges.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\" style=\"background-color: white; 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border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 280px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 742px;\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"742\"><\/iframe><\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">If interested, please submit your application online&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3bwfp5F\" style=\"background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #409bd4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;\">here<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">\u200bDeadline for applications is&nbsp;<span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Monday, October 12, 2020<\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">About:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Media Innovation Centre- Aga Khan University<\/span>, in partnership with our project partners, Deutsche Welle (DW) Akademie, Tanzania Media Foundation (TMF), and Media Challenge Initiative (MCI) in Uganda supports the next generation of media innovators finding unique solutions to the most pressing challenges of the media industry working on unique ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Media Innovation Centre is fully funded by the German Development Bank (KfW Entwicklungsbank) within the context of the Media Futures East Africa (MFEA) project. The key objective of MFEA is to strengthen the long-term viability of quality media in East Africa, making a demonstrable contribution to the quality of and access to media in East Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">DW Akademie&nbsp;<\/span>is part of Deutsche Welle. As a strategic partner of the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, DW Akademie carries out media development projects that strengthen the human right of freedom of opinion and promote free access to information. They enable individuals to form their own opinions based on reliable facts and encourage people to take part in public debates and defend their opinions. This is how they can actively participate in societal developments and improve their living conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Tanzania Media Foundation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Tanzania Media Foundation (TMF) is a Tanzanian media development organization whose 2020 to 2023 priorities focus on providing the media sector in Tanzania with technical support, capacity-building, research and innovation around two core themes \u2013 promoting media for public good and viable media ecosystems. TMF is currently working with DW Akademie to strengthen media viability in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Media Challenge Initiative<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">The Media Challenge Initiative is a youth-driven nonprofit based in Kampala, Uganda dedicated to building the next generation of journalists in Uganda and Africa who are skilled in knowledge and solutions-based journalism. MCI envisions an empowered generation of critical journalists who advance positive development and social change through their journalism.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">For more information please open this link<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-family: Domine, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aku.edu\/gsmc\/innovation-centre\/Pages\/call-for-applications.aspx\" style=\"background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #409bd4; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;\">https:\/\/www.aku.edu\/gsmc\/innovation-centre\/Pages\/call-for-applications.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Call for Applications\u200b Innovators-in-Residence Program 2020 Media Innovation Center&nbsp; The Aga Khan University &nbsp;(Graduate School of Media and Communications) Expression of Interest. 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