Applications Invited for Social Media For Empowerment - Power of People & Participation

About SM4E Award        

Digital Empowerment Foundation has always been dedicated towards finding ICT solutions for the under-served communities to make a fairer, more inclusive India. It is extending its same motto of communicating and enduing masses , this time “with social media” by initiating “Socialmedia4empowerment” portal where social media evangelists can gather under one umbrella to connect and communicate with the world with a trust that “may be it takes time, but changes do happen”.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any Individual, NGO/NPO, Corporates, Students, Teachers, Farmers, Startups, Corporate, Government Organizations, Mobile app Developers, Marketing experts who uses Social Media as a platform can apply.
• The Social media presence of the initiative should be minimum six months old at the time of applying.
• Nominations are welcome from the following South Asian countries: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Afghanistan.
• There is no limitation regarding the platforms, cost or channels the projects work with.
• Entries should focus on execution and impact rather than level of reach and engagement.
• Award nominations from past year winners for the same project will not be considered.

Award Categories

Blogging, Vlogging & Storytelling

This category recognises the initiatives which used blogs, vlogs and/or storytelling to successfully and effectively put across views and right messages to the desired audience.

Citizen Media & Journalism

This category acknowledges initiatives by open media enthusiasts who use social media platforms as a channel to broadcast their views, real time stories and pictures for those who are voiceless and may not have any mainstream media platform.

Community Mobilisation

This category recognises group or community efforts and initiatives that use various platforms of social media effectively for social and developmental purposes.

Communication, Advocacy & Development Activism

This category recognises efforts and initiatives that use social media mechanism and platforms as a tool for advocacy, building opinions and converting them into development activism. Initiatives taken to improve online safety and security associated with using social media will be nominated under this category.

Social Commerce, Crowdsourcing and Crowd Funding

This category recognises initiatives and efforts that turned to crowdsourcing, crowd funding or crowd economy to turn their ideas into reality. This also recognises projects/organisations using social media to attract a global audience for their socio-commercial products.

Social Inclusion

This category acknowledges social media practices that include and are vocal about issues related to diversifying gender (women empowerment), LGBTIQ+, differently-abled, inclusive of religion, caste, race and ethnicity.

Opportunities

Participation

A networking platform to promote best social media innovations through the strong Social Media for Empowerment Awards fraternity.

Sponsor

Promote your brand at the Awards Gala by becoming a sponsor and showcasing your solution that addresses specific needs of emerging markets in South Asian countries.

Exhibition

An immense platform to showcase the best initiatives in social media across South Asia, including wider target audience during the awards, conference and exhibition.

Partner

Association with Social Media for Empowerment Awards to identify and explore the most innovative and challenging social media innovations in the smallest regions of the world.

Speaker

Get an opportunity to speak about your initiative and experiences of using social media for the empowerment and development of the country.

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