Nation journalist wins prestigious ICT award
Daily Nation Business Writer Joshua Masinde who emerged the overall winner of the prestigious CTA-ICT4Ag media awards. PHOTO/FILE
What you need to know:
- Four reports on how ICT is revolutionising agriculture in Africa, helped Masinde beat six other finalists to bag the coveted prize whose award ceremony was held in Kigali, Rwanda Thursday.
- One of the reports by Mr Masinde is an overview on different ICT applications and how they affect the agriculture market in the continent.
Daily Nation financial journalist Joshua Masinde emerged the overall winner of the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries Media Competition on the impact of ICT on Agriculture 2013.
The awards are a brainchild of The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in recognition of the role Information Communication Technology (ICTs) plays in the growth and transformation of agriculture in developing countries.
Four reports on how ICT is revolutionising agriculture in Africa, helped Masinde beat six other finalists to bag the coveted prize whose award ceremony was held in Kigali, Rwanda Thursday.
“I am overwhelmed but I know that it is well deserved knowing that I worked hard for it. I had a lot of support from my colleagues and I want to thank them,” he said during a phone interview.
A Cameroonian (Arison Mbuli) was second, and Zimbabwean (Fidelis Zvomuya) third.
Daily Nation is East and Central Africa's leading newspaper and a product of the Nation Media Group.
The other Nation Media Group finalist was Sandra Chao, Sandra is a features writer with the Business Daily, a sister paper to the Daily Nation.
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Others were Inoussa Maïga from Burkina Faso, Alain Lietbouo (Cameroon), Fidelis Zvomuya (Zimbabwe) and Arison Mbuli Tamfu who works for a Cameroun publication, MALAYSIA MSME News Network, an online news portal.
One of the reports by Mr Masinde is an overview on different ICT applications and how they affect the agriculture market in the continent.
Others entries a focus on why introduction of apps and their relevance should be rethought as they are products of regurgitation, non-sustaining and replication of existing ones; an infographic highlighting statistics, trends and projections of ICT on Agriculture (he used the example of e-soko which has an impact on 2.5 million farmers) and finally an interview of Catherine Rose Baretto on Tanzanian version of i-Hub, KINU.
The competition received 108 entries, 79 of which were in English and 29 in French.
Joshua also writes on money and markets and economy and policy among other interests.
